This minor focuses on the acquisition of essential scientific knowledge and skills to contribute to the prevention, containment, rational antimicrobial treatment and control of infectious diseases in hospital and community settings. Topics will include: antimicrobial resistance (microbiology, pharmacology, guidelines, stewardship and point prevalence survey), hospital infection prevention and control (in the Netherlands and low-resource countries), whole genome sequencing, TB, one health, surveillance (general, laboratory-based and data analysis), outbreak investigation and communication, vaccinations as tool for prevention and modelling. This minor prepares students for a research and clinical internship in the area of infectious diseases and infection control. Students will work in small groups on their own research database resulting in a scientific paper.
The minor uses various teaching manners, such as lectures, group work, presentations, joining a point prevalence study in the hospital, a table-top exercise on outbreak control in the hospital, a serious on outbreak control in the community a serious game, and several excursions (high-level isolation unit and other to be filled in).
Evaluations from previous years show that students appreciate the enthusiasm of the teachers, the various exercises, games and excursions, and they value their acquired academic skills by performing their own data analysis, presenting the results, and writing a scientific article.
Students can mail to Jeannine.Hautvast@radboudumc.nl or Heiman.Wertheim@radboudumc.nl for questions with regards to Minor29.

Key words
Infectious  disease  control;  infection  prevention; outbreak;  surveillance; antibiotic resistance; antibiotic stewardship; epidemiology.