Courses in Belgium 2022

The short course “Hospital-based Interventions to Contain Antibiotic Resistance in Low-resource Settings (AIM)” is a 3-week course that offers interdisciplinary and interactive training on relevant aspects of antibiotic resistance and its containment at the hospital level. The course focuses on hospitals because they concentrate on the illest and vulnerable patients; in addition, they are hotbeds of healthcare-acquired infections, act as referral sites for difficult-to-treat infections, and host trainees and postgraduate educational programs. The short-course consists of a common track and 3 specific tracks on Antibiotic Stewardship (ABS), Infection Prevention & Control (IPC), and Microbiological Surveillance (MS) in the hospital setting. These are closely linked key components in the successful containment of antibiotic resistance. -

This 3-week course is mainly for clinicians, health system and program managers, decision-makers, and researchers who are, or have been, involved in outbreak investigations and want to be able to identify and appraise research needs and opportunities and to develop and support research as part of the outbreak response. The course aims to enhance the specific skills needed to design and implement multi- and interdisciplinary outbreak investigations with a particular focus on relevant research before, during, and after acute phases of outbreaks. -