Welcome, teachers! This section of Learn Antibiotics is designed to support and inspire educators guiding learners through the ever-evolving world of infectious diseases. Here you’ll find a variety of educational resources, teaching tools, and practical content to enhance the learning experience. If there is a resource you would like to see added, we welcome your suggestions—please reach out through our comments page here.
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SECTIONS
- 5 simple tips for using Learn Antibiotics as a preceptor
- 5 quick ideas for motivating your learners
- Blog posts for helping learners & preceptors
- Potential Journal Club Articles (Updated monthly)
5 SIMPLE TIPS FOR USING LEARN ANTIBIOTICS AS A PRECEPTOR
- Assign your learner to do the bugs and drugs test so you can establish a baseline of their knowledge
- As you have topic discussions, guide learners to which study cheat sheets to review in advance or afterwards
- Challenge your learners to complete games or fill-in-the blanks which compliments an area of focus for that day
- Guide your learner towards more structured workflows using the clinical rotation resources
- Task your learner to critically evaluate one of the Learn Antibiotics resources
5 QUICK IDEAS FOR MOTIVATING YOUR LEARNERS
- Ensure your learners know what the expectations are for the experience
- Connect key concepts to real patient cases
- Turn learning challenging topics into a game (like using Learn Antibiotics games!)
- Give your learner positive encouragement by recognizing their knowledge growth when you observe it, celebrating wins builds confidence
- Be enthusiasm for the subject matter, because attitudes can be infectious!
BLOG POSTS FOR HELPING LEARNERS & PRECEPTORS
- How to Study Antibiotics for the NAPLEX or an ID Rotation Using LearnAntibiotics.com
- Five Achievements You Need To Unlock To Become An Antibiotic Ninja
- Five Ways Preceptors May Integrate Generative Artificial Intelligence Programs Into Pharmacy Education Learning Experiences
- Top Five Reasons Pharmacy Preceptors Fail
- Dessert Before Dinner: How To Sweeten Up Pharmacy Topic Discussions For Your Learners
- A BCPS Statistics Review For Pharmacists
POTENTIAL JOURNAL CLUB ARTICLES
This section features journal club articles curated to help educators facilitate engaging, clinically relevant discussions in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship. The selected publications may include landmark trials, emerging data, controversial topics, and practice-changing studies that can serve as valuable teaching tools across a variety of learning environments. Whether you are leading APPE students, residents, fellows, or practicing clinicians, these articles are intended to support thoughtful discussion, critical appraisal, and evidence-based teaching.
This blog post may be a good starting place too: Top 10 Journal Articles To Read During Your Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Rotation
Learners may benefit from reviewing this: 5 Tips for Doing a Journal Club on Infectious Diseases Articles
APRIL 2026 Articles List
- Antimicrobial stewardship resourcing and programme outcomes: a scoping review
- Think PEN-FAST: Evaluation of implementing PEN-FAST into pharmacist-led medication reconciliation
- Direct Oral Challenge for Penicillin Allergy: The International Network of Antibiotic Allergy Nations (iNAAN) Study
- A Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Maternal Infection Outcomes
- Point-Counterpoint: Should MRSA nares testing be used as a tool for vancomycin de-escalation outside of pneumonia
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Swab Utilization as a Predictor for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- Fast Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for Gram-Negative BacteremiaThe FAST Randomized Clinical Trial
- Impact of a Rapid Change in Beta-lactam Resistance Epidemiology on the Management of Patients With Bloodstream Infections
- Clinical and bacteriological effectiveness of three different short-course antibiotic regimens and single-dose fosfomycin for uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections in women (SCOUT): a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, randomised clinical trial
- Short Versus Longer Antibiotic Duration for Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Multicenter Target Trial Emulation
- Reducing empiric piperacillin-tazobactam use for patients with community-acquired intra-abdominal infections
- Population pharmacokinetics of total and free ceftriaxone in critically ill and non-critically ill hospitalised adult patients
- Effectiveness of fidaxomicin in preventing recurrence after initial community-associated Clostridioides difficileinfection
- Leptospirosis—clinical review and updates on therapeutics
- Interest in Infectious Diseases Among Internal Medicine Resident Physicians: Results From a Nationwide Survey
- The Paradox of Knowledge: Why Medical Students Know More But Understand Less
- Antibiotic Use and Stewardship in the United States, 2025 Update: Progress and Opportunities
March 2026 Articles List
- Direct Oral Challenge for Penicillin Allergy: The International Network of Antibiotic Allergy Nations (iNAAN) Study
- Piperacillin–tazobactam tolerability in patients with a labeled penicillin allergy (PIPPEN)
- Surviving Sepsis Campaign Adult Guidelines
- IV push cefepime for Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in critically ill patients: Convenience over quality care?
- Evaluation of the impact of universal mupirocin decolonization in intensive care units on the utility of MRSA PCR nasal swab testing
- Efficacy and Safety of Tetracyclines in Bone and Joint Infections: A Literature Review
- Oral fosfomycin tromethamine for UTI: Guidance for clinician
- Predicting oral cephalosporin susceptibility in Escherichia coli blood isolates using parenteral cephalosporin susceptibility testing
- Oral β-Lactams for Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: A Systematic Review and Point-Counterpoint Comparison With Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole and Fluoroquinolones
- Comparison of Oral Cephalosporin and Penicillin Step-Down Therapy for the Treatment of Gram-Negative Blood Stream Infections: A Retrospective Observational Study
- Advances in therapeutic strategies against Mycobacterium marinum infection
- The shift from “MIC-Only” back to carbapenemase testing among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales: what clinical laboratories need to know about updated CLSI guidance
- A national survey of the infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist workforce in the United States: work settings, characteristics, employment activities, resources and needs
February 2026 Articles List
- You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Curbside Questions Infectious Diseases Clinicians Ask Infectious Diseases Pharmacists
- ESCMID Clinical Guidelines on the Evaluation and Management of a Reported Antibiotic Allergy
- A Bone To Pick: Navigating the Impact of Penicillin Allergy Labels on Bone and Joint Infections
- Group B Streptococcal Disease (review article)
- Legionella Pneumonia in the Modern Era: Clinical Features and Predictors of Mortality
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Appendicitis: 2025 Edition of the World Society of Emergency Surgery Jerusalem Guidelines
- Gut check: antimicrobial stewardship opportunities in intra-abdominal infections
- Initial Vancomycin Taper for the Prevention of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- State-of-the-Art Review: Diagnosis and Management of Acute and Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis
- The effect of combination antibiotic therapy on mortality in patients with sepsis or septic shock due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa bloodstream infections: a systematic review
- A full educational resource review of grey literature resources for vancomycin dosing tutorials
- Mucormycosis (review article)
January 2026 Articles List
- Filling the Gaps: A Review and Update on Beta-Lactamase Inhibitor Combinations
- A bundle of the top 10 OPAT publications in 2024
- What’s Hot This Year in ID Clinical Science 2025
- Antibiotic duration for common bacterial infections—a systematic review
- When and How to Use Subcutaneous Antibiotics
- Top unanswered questions in antimicrobial management of necrotizing soft tissue infections
- What should infectious diseases clinicians know about pharmacy benefit managers and their impact on our patients?
- Feeling the Vibes: An Investigation into Resident Antibiotic Prescribing Practices
- Oral switch antibiotic therapy in uncomplicated Enterococcus faecalis bloodstream infection
- Current Management of Serious Infections due to Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci
- Community-onset symptomatic urinary tract infections (SUTI) caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing
- Single-Dose Liposomal Amphotericin Plus Fluconazole and Flucytosine for Cryptococcal Meningitis at a US Public Hospital
- The Tantalizing Pursuit for a Perfect Diagnostic Test: Balancing Innovation With Stewardship
- Introduction of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal polymerase chain reaction testing combined with pharmacist ordering and intervention reduces anti-MRSA antibiotic use in a multi-hospital system
- Enterobacterales: independent predictors and comparative effectiveness of oral agents
- Assessing appropriateness of antibiotic therapy: a scoping review of definitions and their clinical implication
- Identifying indicators for measuring appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in high-income countries: a rapid systematic review
- Strengthening Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Latin America through Telementoring: Results from the TEACH PROA-ECHO Initiative
- Efficacy and safety of minocycline in patients with acute ischaemic stroke (EMPHASIS): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial