FADIC in ACCP Jacksonville USA

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) is a professional and scientific society that provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources enabling clinical pharmacists to achieve excellence in practice, research, and education.

ACCP is the professional home for clinical pharmacy practitioners, scientists, educators, administrators, students, residents, and fellows from more than 60 countries committed to excellence in clinical pharmacy.

FADIC “First Arabian Drug Information Center” is an online drug information center. All FADIC team members are board certified pharmacotherapy specialists (BCPS). It aims at improving the quality of medication use practice and increasing healthcare awareness.

FADIC holds an online interactive program, talks, symposiums, conferences, and webinars to help pharmacists stay updated, and connecting pharmacists from different countries such as USA, UK, UAE, KSA, and Egypt, to share their clinical experiences.

FADIC forum expanded online through the website, in addition to social media platforms to offer the new innovative model of pharmacy education.

Pharmacy education is continuously developing, incorporating more innovative strategies, such as active-learning techniques which help in the implementation of effective pharmacy continuous improvement programs.

Antibiotics represent one of the greatest achievements in the medical field, Unfortunately, the irrational use of antibiotics is leading the world to an impending disaster, due to the development of resistance.

Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the proper use of antibiotics and other antimicrobial, to improve patient outcomes, reduce the spread of infections caused by multi-drug-resistant organisms.

The rapidly growing antibiotics resistance prompts the need for adopting new, interactive program to maintain the proper antibiotics use.

• To assess the need for antimicrobial stewardship program.
• To determine the qualifications of all interested healthcare professionals who need this program.
• To determine the most common source of information about antimicrobial stewardship program.
• To determine the best active learning techniques used in Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Education.

The rapidly growing antibiotics resistance as a consequence of inappropriate, and unnecessary antimicrobial use, prompts the need for proper education of healthcare professionals.

Active learning has an indispensable role in pharmacy education. The antimicrobial stewardship program provides an innovative and attractive option, aiding in the optimization of patient outcomes.

Thus, there is a great need in the future for structured programs and initiatives to educate the pharmacists about their roles and the basic requirements to face the crisis of multi-drug resistance.

Recognizing that these recommendations frequently are based on inadequate data, we call for additional support, that will preserve better implementation of antimicrobial stewardship in the future.

One of the FADIC initiatives is to tailor antimicrobial stewardship program, supported by mentorship, and reviewer system. Active learning techniques are used in an online session, workshops, live webinars, and project-based learning.

FADIC tries to help the pharmacist stay updated with an evidence-based practice, and implement antimicrobial stewardship effectively.

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