Training Resources

TARGET Antibiotic Webinar Series

This series of 7 TARGETantibiotics webinars, now available as un-facilitated learning courses, highlights simple key actions to help improve your antibiotic prescribing whilst improving the patient experience and their self-care. 

TARGET “why and how to achieve optimal prescribing” group training presentation

This presentation aims to provide up to date evidence for primary care clinicians about why optimising antibiotic prescribing is important and how this can be achieved. The presentation is designed to be delivered by GPs, microbiologists or medicine managers with an interest in antibiotic use however can be used by less experienced presenters.

• TARGET presentation introduction document V2.1 details how the presentation has been designed and should be adapted to suit your training needs.
• TARGET presentation evaluation form
  
• TARGET presentation self-assessment: Printable SAC for GPs V9

Core and interchangeable clinical scenario slides 

• TARGET antibiotic presentation core slides
• Additional clinical scenario slide - acute cough
• Additional clinical scenario slide - UTI
• Additional clinical scenario slide - acute sore throat
• Additional clinical scenario slide - otitis media 
• Additional clinical scenario slide - skin infection
• Additional clinical scenario slide - acute rhinosinusitis

TARGET Antibiotic Resistance in Primary Care eModule

The Antibiotic Resistance in Primary Care course will equip you with tools for improving your antibiotic prescribing and assist you in identifying the need for optimised antibiotic prescribing. Evidence showing the link between prescribing and resistance rates in GP patients is explored. 

These eLearning modules are free for members to access. 

• Skin Infections eModule describes common presentations of bacterial, viral and fungal skin infections and outlines their management.
• Managing Urinary Tract Infections (MUTS) eModule explains the importance and appropriateness of diagnostics and offers advice on how to assess and treat patients with a range of urinary symptoms.
• Managing Infectious Diarrhoea eModule uses case studies to illustrate the clinical management of patients with infectious diarrhoea. The wider differential diagnosis of diarrhoea is also discussed.
• Sexual Health in Primary Care eModule highlights the importance of pro-active primary healthcare professionals, clinical and non-clinical, to improve the UK’s sexual and reproductive health needs. It includes normalising testing for STIs and overcoming barriers to discussing sexual health. 
• Common infections in primary care - management of urinary tract infections and sinusitis - a set of three screencasts which will take you through the latest evidence-based approach to the assessment and management of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and sinusitis.

• STAR: Stemming the Tide of Antibiotic Resistance: Developed buy Cardiff University, this eModule  focuses on antibiotic resistance (and its link with practice prescribing) and practical techniques for improving consultations for common infections.  
• Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance, developed by BSAC and the University of Dundee. Understand antibiotic resistance, and how antimicrobial stewardship can slow down or reduce it, with this free online course.

Health Education England 

• Reducing Antimicrobial Resistance developed to support all health and social care staff understands the threats posed by antimicrobial resistance and ways they can help to tackle it. 

NICE/BMJ learning

NICE has developed a series of FREE open access online education tools in collaboration with BMJ Learning. The toolkit also supports the recommendations made in the NICE Antimicrobial stewardship: systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use guidelines, published August 2015. It also supports the Antimicrobial stewardship NICE quality standard, published April 2016.

• Feverish illness in young children  
• Feverish illness in young children: a guide for paediatric practitioners 
• Meningococcal disease in children: diagnosis and management in primary care 
• Sexually transmitted infections and under 18 conceptions 
• Tuberculosis 
• Urinary tract infection in children: diagnosis, treatment, and long term management
• Antimicrobial prophylaxis against infective endocarditis in adults and children undergoing interventional procedures