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Clinical Case Challenge on Diagnostics and AMR

We call on you to support the “Clinical Case Challenge” – an international challenge highlighting the value of in vitro diagnostics in the fight against AMR.

This challenge invites medical students, trainees, physicians and others worldwide to submit their case studies on this important healthcare topic, thereby increasing open access cases for medical education.

Many medical schools have gaps in clinical diagnostics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) content. A challenge is proposed to solicit clinical diagnostic and AMR clinical cases through a global call for participation. Clinical diagnostics are tests to aid clinical management and/or guide treatment decisions. The purpose of the challenge is to encourage medical students, trainees, physicians, and others to collect or write clinical cases that could be used in medical education and shared online. The challenge has two types of clinical cases: original cases written specifically for the contest and not published before; adapted cases that have been published elsewhere and tailored for medical education use.

Guidelines for submissions are described below. The final deadline for cases is May 1st, 2018.

bioMérieux is proud to be the sole sponsor of this initiative developed by the International Diagnostics Center and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the main organizer of this contest. Send your clinical case!

Details: http://www.seshglobal.org/Clinical-Case-Challenge

Questions: Contact the challenge coordinator at AMRcasechallenge@gmail.com

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ARLG In News:

NIH-Funded Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group Details Progress, Challenges, NIAID, March 9, 2017

Report to The President on Combating Antibiotic Resistance, Whitehouse.gov, September 2014

White House references Duke leadership in antibiotic resistance, Duke Medicine News, September 19, 2014

Duke Leadership in Antibiotic Resistance Referenced in New Executive Action, DCRI, September 19, 2014

Fact Sheet: Obama Administration Takes Actions to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, Whitehouse.gov, September 18, 2014

ND4BB: Addressing The Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis, Nature Reviews Microbiology, March 10, 2014

NIAID Leadership Group for a Clinical Research Network on Antibacterial Resistance, NIAID, March 4, 2014

ARLG Research Network Will Target the Problem of Antibacterial Resistance, DCRI, November 8, 2013

Antibiotic Resistance in the News:

Diagnostic developers target antibiotic resistance : Nature News & Comment

Diagnostic developers target antibiotic resistance, Nature.com, October 9, 2015

NIH Funds Nine Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostics Projects, NIAID, April 9, 2015

Obama battles ‘superbugs’ with national plan, CNN.com, March 27, 2015

Combating Antibiotic Resistance, FDA, October 14, 2014

National Strategy to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, CDC, September 22, 2014

New Executive Actions to Combat Antibiotic Resistance and Protect Public Health, Whitehouse.gov, September 18, 2014

Executive Order — Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, whitehouse.gov, September 18, 2014

PCAST Releases New Report on Combating Antibiotic Resistance, whitehouse.gov, September 18, 2014

Antimicrobial resistance, WHO, April 2014

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