Earlier this summer the International Team delivered a weekly Global Antimicrobial Resistance Webinar series.

Runing for 6 weeks, the webinars explored an aspect of antimicrobial resistance and stewardship with speakers from around the world. Each webinar started with a UK speaker providing an introduction to the topic and the UK perspective, followed by 2-4 international speakers providing the perspective from their respective countries.

Programme

• Global Perspectives on Antimicrobial Resistance with speakers from Australia, Kenya, and Qatar. Some of the topics discussed were IV vs oral antibiotics and explanation of co-amoxiclav resistance despite reduction in consumption.
• Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Community with speakers from Nigeria and Sri Lanka. The topics discussed were challenges of antimicrobial stewardship in the community and the explanation of the AWaRe classification.
• Antimicrobial Stewardship in Secondary Care with speakers from Cuba, India, Nigeria, and Qatar. The topics discussed were influencing the choice of antibiotics and case studies on antimicrobial stewardship in palliative secondary hospice care.
• Engaging the Public in Antimicrobial Stewardship with speakers from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. We discussed the UK’s 5-year action plan ‘Confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024-2029’ and understanding the different cause of antimicrobial resistance.
• Developing Prescribing Guidelines with speakers from Egypt and India. We discussed how to develop the skills to write guidelines and policies and learn how to develop good uptake of the policies and guidelines.
• Evaluating an Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme: What are the measures of success? with speakers from Canada, Egypt, and Hong Kong. We discussed the elements of antimicrobial stewardship and outlining what the measures of success are for an antimicrobial stewardship programme.

Attendees

Attendees joined from around the world, with nearly 600 joining not just one but multiple webinars in the series.

Attendees came from over 30 countries including:

Algeria, Australia, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom.

This chart illustrates attendance from across the six international College regions as well as the UK:

 

 

Feedback 

The feedback from the webinars was incredibly positive showing that the vast majority of attendees finding them extremely useful. The global perspective and international speakers were the most common answer for why attendees enjoyed the webinars. Receiving this feedback highlights the importance of international collaboration and the international activities we deliver helping to promote advanced knowledge in pathology practice.

Recordings

If you would like to watch the webinars, please visit this webpage where you can find recordings from all 6 webinars. 

Special Thanks

Special thanks go to Professor Angharad Davies, Clinical Director for Publishing and Engagement for creating this programme, moderating the webinars and coordinating each Q&A session, to the international speakers who provided incredibly informative insight into antimicrobial resistance and stewardship in each of their respective countries and to all the attendees who joined the webinars and took part in the Q&A sessions.