Integrating Medical Teaching to Address Misuse of Antibiotic

Abstract

In highly vaccinated areas, resistance to antimicrobials has surged rapidly in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially within Pakistan, owing to the more extensive misuse and abuse of antibiotics. This study investigates the gap present in antibiotic stewardship and public health policies on AMR within the medical education system of Pakistan for this aim. This work investigates the insight and perspective of medical students, teachers, and professionals towards antibiotic misuse, antimicrobial resistance, and related policies. The findings suggest that there is an inadequate understanding and training concerning the extensive social and moral effects of AMR. Additionally, inadequate extracurricular activities.The findings point out the crucial requirement for adding antibiotic stewardship, bioethics, and public health issues into medical course materials to deal with the misuse of antibiotics and to check the rise of AMR. The results show that merging education, rigorous policy enforcement, and awareness into a single approach provides a practical solution to this challenge.