- The mission of ESCMID is to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infection-related diseases. This is achieved in part by promoting and supporting education, training, and good medical practice.
- The ESCMID Academy offers an important and highly accessible educational resource, featuring live online courses and webinars, and the addition of e-learning interactive activities and courses in the near future.
- Generally, live webinars are open access and often provide up to date/urgent information on topics related to microbiology and infectious diseases.
- ESCMID is currently developing interactive and self-paced elearning content to provide participants with the most engaging learning experience.
Online ESCMID Postgraduate Courses are hosted here and consist of two- to four-day events that focus on specific clinical or laboratory issues. Organisers can be ESCMID Study Groups, related professional societies or individual ESCMID members under the auspices and with the financial support of ESCMID.
These events are open for everyone interested in the fields of clinical microbiology or infectious diseases. If you would like to register for any of these courses, please refer to the ESCMID website.
- ESCMID Online Education Course: 7 March & 9 March, 2023
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Course Coordinator
Sigurd Høye, The Norwegian Antibiotic Centre for Primary Care, Norway
Course Objectives
The Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) provider recognizes the problems that should be addressed in LTCF and can address them by organizing appropriate structures, interventions, and monitoring.
Registration Procedure
Register on the ESCMID website at www.escmid.org/education by 1 March 2023.
Registration fee
EUR 75 for ESCMID members
EUR 125 for non-ESCMID members
EUR 30 for ESCMID Young Scientist Members
EUR 10 for ESCMID Low-income country member
- ESCMID Postgraduate Education Course: 1 March - 2 March, 2023
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Course Coordinators
Amparo Fernandez-Rodriguez, Madrid, Spain
Marta C Cohen, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Veroniek Saegeman, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Virginie Prendki, Genève, Switzerland
Course Objectives
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how difficult the management of new or re-emerging infections can be. The current course will cover lessons learned in forensic medicine that can help to improve their management in elderly and vulnerable patients. This course will use translational medicine to show how pathophysiology and autopsy studies can help clinicians in the preparedness for new and reemerging infections or even future pandemics.
The What can forensic medicine teach us for the management of pandemics?, online, Switzerland, 01/03/2023-02/03/2023 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 8 European CME credits (ECMEC®s).
Note that only the time spent during the live activity will count towards accreditation; on-demand content does not offer credit.
How to claim CME credits
Registered attendees will have until March 31st, 2023 to participate in this live educational course, successfully complete the assessment and fill out the evaluation form* to obtain their credits and to obtain the CME Certificate.
The evaluation form is available HERE.
- ESCMID Online Education Course: 23 January – 25 January, 2023
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Course Coordinator
Bastien Mollo, Paris, France
Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, Paris, France
Course Objectives
Understand the issues and challenges of AMS in LMICs, to enable participants to better adapt the concepts learned in the other modules to these specific contexts, based on the example of several specific initiatives and solutions. The module will cover three themes: the context (Epidemiology of AMR and Antimicrobial prescription in LMICs); the implementation of AMS programs in LMICs; and the perspectives (researches, innovations, and training programs). This is aimed either at participants wishing to practice directly in these fields, or at those working on global health issues.
Registration Procedure
Register on the ESCMID website at www.escmid.org/education by 18 January 2023.
Registration fee
EUR 200 for ESCMID members
EUR 250 for non-ESCMID members
EUR 75 for ESCMID Young Scientist Members
EUR 30 for ESCMID Low-income country members
- ESCMID Online Education Course: 3 November – 4 November, 2022
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Course Coordinator
Gülsen Özkaya Sahin, Lund, Sweden
William Irving, Nottingham, UK
Snjezana Zidovec Lepej, Zagreb, Croatia
Course Objective
Chronic HBV infection is a global public health burden estimated to impact nearly 300 million persons worldwide. Although effective vaccines are available to prevent new HBV infection, treatment of existing chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is limited, as the current standardof-care antiviral drugs can only suppress viral replication without achieving cure. This course aims to update participants concerning different therapeutic strategies and current technologies for HBV cure. The course will also cover management of hepatitis D and effect of COVID-19 on management of HBV-infection. In order to
stimulate scientific communication and collaboration between the speakers and the audience, two roundtables have also been included in the program.
Registration Procedure
Register on the ESCMID website at www.escmid.org/education by 1 November 2022.
Registration fee
EUR 150 for ESCMID members
EUR 200 for all others
For Young Scientist Members EUR 50
For LMICs EUR 20
