@article{Rawson:2016:10.1016/j.jinf.2016.08.019,
author = {Rawson, T and Moore, L and Gill, D and Lupton, M and Holmes, A},
doi = {10.1016/j.jinf.2016.08.019},
journal = {Journal of Infection},
pages = {200--202},
title = {Promoting medical student engagement with antimicrobial stewardship through involvement in undergraduate research},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2016.08.019},
volume = {74},
year = {2016}
}

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AB  - The National Health Service recognises the importance of research, teaching, and training tothe future success of the organisation and medical students are expected to qualify with thenecessary clinical, professional, and academic skills to support this. There is a wide variationin the level of cross-specialty engagement with Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) &Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research at UK and international state-of-the-artconferences, with a heterogeneous level of importance also attributed amongst undergraduateand postgraduate training pathways across clinical medicine. It therefore seems apparent thatthe AMS-AMR agenda needs to be promoted from within specialties, rather than being‘pushed’ on them as an external agenda, to promote broad ownership and capacity within allclinical specialties that use antimicrobials. This must start early during undergraduate medicaltraining. We investigated whether the use of an online platform designed to facilitate medicalstudent research projects could be utilised to promote undergraduate engagement with AMSAMRat Imperial College School of Medicine between July 2015 and 2016. During thisperiod 12 applicants were appointed to 11 of the 13 advertised projects. So far, studentsundertaking these projects have achieved: 1 peer-reviewed publication, 3 national oralpresentations, 1 national prize, 1 international poster presentation, 3 national posterpresentations, and 2 further manuscripts are currently under peer-review. Furthermore,despite the students’ broad career interests there has been a high retention rate with studentsrequesting involvement in further AMS-AMR related activities. Further longitudinalassessment of this tool for promoting undergraduate engagement with AMS-AMR research isnow being explored.
AU  - Rawson,T
AU  - Moore,L
AU  - Gill,D
AU  - Lupton,M
AU  - Holmes,A
DO  - 10.1016/j.jinf.2016.08.019
EP  - 202
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1532-2742
SP  - 200
TI  - Promoting medical student engagement with antimicrobial stewardship through involvement in undergraduate research
T2  - Journal of Infection
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2016.08.019
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/40043
VL  - 74
ER  - 

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