SHEA provides a range of educational opportunities for healthcare practitioners seeking concrete, science based strategies to implement antimicrobial stewardship programs across the healthcare system.

Online Educational Programs

• Antimicrobial Stewardship in Practice: An Online Educational Series for Healthcare Professionals
  Based on three live courses, this continuing medical education program provides science based research and practical tools to implement antimicrobial stewardship programs.
  
  
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Is Vital to Avoid a Return to the Pre-antibiotic Era
  In this Medscape video commentary, SHEA Past President Neil O. Fishman, MD, explains why antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges that healthcare providers will confront during the coming decade.
  
  
• Antimicrobial Resistance Across the Continuum of Care: Winning the War One Battle at a Time
  Arjun Srinivasan, MD: Antibiotic Resistance: A Mandate for Change. There is an imperative to improve antibiotic use in this country to avoid the public health crisis of returning to a pre-antibiotic era.
  
  Neil Fishman, MD, Edward Septimus, MD, Sara Cosgrove, MD: What Can You Do About It? Infection prevention and control experts discuss practical individual and system strategies for antimicrobial stewardship.

Live Educational Events

• Implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: A Workshop on Development, Maintenance and Measuring Success 
  Wednesday, October 19, 2011 | 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
  Boston, MA
  A SHEA pre-meeting workshop at the IDSA Annual Conference
  To register for only the workshop, please call the customer service line at 1-800-974-3084.
  
  
• SHEA 2012 – Advancing Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship
  April 13 – 16, 2012 | Jacksonville, FL
  Registration opens September 2011!
  With expanded advanced and introductory tracks in healthcare epidemiology, SHEA 2012 also will convene a two-day leadership forum to address the latest trends and research in antimicrobial stewardship.
  
  
• Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Community Hospital Practical Tools & Techniques For Implementation: Practical Tools & Techniques for Implementation
  A series of in-hospital CME-certified Visiting Professor programs developed in partnership with Rockepointe.  To learn more, please contact Rachon Cottman at 443-539-4599 or at rcottman@potomacme.org