Background
The Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Mentorship Program aims to foster excellence in antimicrobial use and establish sustainable AMS systems through personalized coaching and interactive discussions. The goal is to create a nucleus of AMS expertise to support the nationwide scaling-up of AMS practices.
Program Details:
- Duration: January to June 2025
- Facilitators: WHO-SEARO, Fleming Fund, and Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore
- Participants: 18 government hospitals and 2 private hospitals
Team Composition for Each Hospital:
- Hospital Director/Deputy Director
- Consultant Microbiologist (Coordinator)
- Clinicians
- IPC Nurse
- Chief Pharmacist
- Other AMS committee members
Key Activities:
- Staff from four hospitals (CNTH, NHK, SJH, and Lanka Hospital) trained in 2023 will serve as resource persons.
- First meeting: January 16, 2025, at 2:00 pm (IST) via Zoom.
- Webinar sessions will continue every fortnight.
This program aims to enhance AMS systems in tertiary and specialized healthcare facilities, leveraging the expertise of trained staff to share experiences and best practices.
Tentative Agenda of the Webinar Series
| Date | Topic |
| 16/1/2025 | Webinar 1: Introduction and Setting Up AMS Governance Structure |
| Follow up country support (if required) | |
| 30/1/2025 | Webinar 2: Facility introduction: AMS situational analysis and SWOT analysis |
| Webinar 2 continued: Follow up country support in situational analysis (if required) | |
| 13/2/2025 | Webinar 3: Planning AMS program and performing key interventions |
| 27/2/2025 | Webinar 4: Planning AMS program and performing key interventions |
| 13/3/2025 | Webinar 5: Development of AMS facility action plans, submit action plans with budget to DDG LS for funding support |
| 27/3/2025 | Webinar 6: Diagnostics and laboratory stewardship |
| 3/4/2025 | Webinar 7: Clinical case series I |
| 17/4/2025 | Webinar 8: Clinical case series II |
| Periodic health facility assessment | |
| 8/5/2025 | Webinar 9: Antimicrobial prescribing surveillance, utilization and audit |
| 22/5/2025 | Discussion on way forward Wrap-up and concluding remarks |
| 30/06/2025 | Submission of final reports of AMS activities in each hospital |