Teaching and education
The Department teaches in the School of Medicine, across all the RCSI teaching sites (Dublin, Bahrain), as well as delivering courses in the Schools of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Physiotherapy and School of Nursing & Midwifery in Dublin. The Department also runs the ‘Safe Patient Care: Foundations in Infection Prevention and Control course with the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, which is aimed at frontline healthcare workers who are not infection prevention and control specialists.
The Department is at the forefront of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) approaches for students, which include podcasts, online quizzes, and interactive in-class and online teaching materials.
We aim to promote patient-centred care using e-learning modalities focusing on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of important infections and we strive to promote excellence in antimicrobial stewardship and prescribing, targeting correct decision making for the appropriate choice of empiric antimicrobials, through the use of online cases.
We also engage with students on important patient-centred topics in real-time through our departmental Instagram account.
In addition, departmental members participate in postgraduate and public education on research integrity, infection prevention and control, sepsis, meningitis, antibiotics and antimicrobial resistant organisms (superbugs) as well as educational and training initiatives to healthcare professionals and medical device specialists in collaboration with Insmed and Innovatrix, for example.
Watch an RCSI MyHealth video below in which the panel address some of the issues we are facing globally with the rise of antibiotic resistance and look at prevention and control measures that can be taken to reduce the impact and limit the spread of resistance: