Target Audience

This activity is specifically designed for clinicians, healthcare providers, and AMR stewards to address AMR at the hospital.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the module, learners should be able to:

  • Identify and describe the clinical relevance, typical sources of common uropathogens with an emphasis on their role in uncomplicated and complicated UTIs.

  • Explain the rationale for empiric versus targeted antimicrobial therapy in the management of UTIs, while considering tissue distribution and drug concentration in the urinary tract and renal dosing.

  • Analyze mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in uropathogens and how these influence the selection of effective antibiotic therapy.

  • Identify antimicrobial stewardship behaviours that mitigate unnecessary antimicrobial use in treating UTIs.

Module Outline

This module will take approximately 2 - 3 hours to complete.

  • Clinical Vignettes

  • Terminology and Core Concepts

  • Clinical Manifestations

  • Asymptomatic Bacteriuria

  • Diagnostic Evaluation

  • Microbiology

  • Treatment Approach

  • Antimicrobial and Diagnostic Stewardship

  • Advanced Concepts

Course Directors

Dr. Carl Boodman, MD, FRCPC, DTM&H, CTropMed® is a Canadian infectious diseases physician, a medical microbiologist and a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Tropical Medicine/ University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is a Clinical Investigator Program Candidate at the University of Manitoba (Canada) and a member of the International Diagnostics Network.


Dr. Nitin Gupta, MBBS, MD, DM, DTM&H, CTropMed, DipRCPath, AAHIVS, PGPE, FRSPH, CIC, MTM - Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India Coordinator, Centre for Tropical Febrile Illness, MAHE, Manipal, India.

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