Abstract
Abstract
Background
Resistance to antimicrobial agents has become a problem in modern society. Antibiotic resistant bacteria undermine the prevention and treatment of infections. Undergraduate dental students in Europe are required to receive information in aspects of microbiology relevant for dental practice, including oral microbial pathogens and resistance mechanisms against antimicrobial compounds. The objective of this study was to implement a research-based strategy to aid the understanding of the increase in antimicrobial resistance in undergraduate dental student training. The primary outcome of this project is the efficacious delivery of the learning objectives.
Methods
Ten volunteer undergraduate student “ambassadors” were recruited to manage the project with assistance from lead academics. Student ambassadors were a source of peer learning for their colleagues. The project consisted of three phases: Pre-project preparation (in which the ambassadors received special instruction and training); Practical experience (in which the ambassadors worked with volunteer student colleagues to carry out the project); Public presentation of results (in which ambassadors presented study results at a scientific conference of their choosing).
Results
A total of 1164 students volunteered for the project, corresponding to an average participation rate of 76.4% students per year of the course. Following final debriefing, student participants and ambassadors were strongly positive in their evaluation of the achievement of 8 key student learning objectives. The results demonstrate that most volunteers improved their knowledge related to antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in microbiology. Additional benefits of participation in this project included an improvement in dental knowledge and ethics in biomedical research for the student volunteers, whilst the student ambassadors reported improved knowledge about critical thinking and study design, as well as a deeper understanding about microbiological analysis methods.
Conclusions
To the best of our knowledge, this the first instance of the application of project-based methodologies to the teaching of a traditionally non-laboratory component of a subject taught in the dentistry curriculum. Results from both students and ambassadors highlighted the increase in dental knowledge and an increased awareness of antimicrobial resistance as the key outcomes of this project.
Funder
Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Education,General Medicine
Reference35 articles.
1. World Health Organization. Antimicrobial Resistance Global Report on Surveillance. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/112642/9789241564748_eng.pdf;jsessionid=A807D876BE382FACE03DD7B3E446D591?sequence=1.Accessed 31st July 2019.
2. Matouskova I, Janout V. Current knowledge of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Biomed Pap Med Fac Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub. 2008;15:191–202.
3. Khairalla AS, Wasfi R, Ashour HM. Carriage frequency, phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from dental health care personnel, patients, and environment. Sci Reports. 2017;7:7390.
4. Michael CA, Dominey-Howes D, Labbate M. The antimicrobial resistance crisis: causes, consequences, and management. Front Public Health. 2014. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2014.00145.eCollection 2014
5. World Health Organization. Antibiotic Resistance Fact sheet. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antibiotic-resistance. Accessed 14th October 2019.
Cited by
4 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献