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:

  • Differentiate SSTI syndromes using structured clinical reasoning to identify non-purulent, purulent, and necrotizing infections.

  • Select targeted management strategies based on likely pathogens, disease severity, and the need for source control or surgical intervention.

  • Apply antimicrobial stewardship principles to optimize antibiotic use, including appropriate empiric selection, de-escalation, prevention, and avoidance of unnecessary therapy.

Module Outline

This module will take approximately 1 hour to complete.

  • Introduction to Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

  • Non-Purulent Cellulitis

  • Necrotizing Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

  • Pathogens and Antimicrobial Strategy

  • Purulent Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

  • Prevention and Diagnostics

  • Clinical Reasoning and Stewardship

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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