About www.ManagingRTI.ca

Mission: To Provide Evidence-based Principles for Best-Practice in Managing and Treating Respiratory Tract Infections in Canada

This online resource provides Canadian physicians and pharmacists with an accredited, state-of-the-art resource for diagnosing, managing and treating community respiratory tract infections in the Canadian community practice setting in an era of increasing bacterial resistance.

Leading Canadian experts provide expertise, evidence-based content, best-practice recommendations and the very latest scientific data. Practical case studies allow the learner to focus on current challenges in the community practice setting. Content also addresses the management of upper and lower respiratory tract infections in the context of antimicrobial drug interactions.

Registrants will be able to review the most current data on emerging bacterial resistance and access guidance from experts related to respiratory tract infections in the Canadian clinical setting. Content will also provide educational modules that are useful for “live” accredited learning activities as for online learning.

Overall Program Learning Objectives – After completing this program, family physicians and pharmacists will have a better understanding of:

• Diagnosis and management of upper and lower respiratory tract infections
• Pathogens associated with upper and lower respiratory tract infections
• The causes and importance of bacterial resistance in managing and treating respiratory tract infections, and how to minimize resistance
• The risks and safety issues associated with antimicrobial drug interactions in the clinical practice and pharmacy setting

Latest Data on Bacterial Resistance & Drug Interactions: Content will address the challenges of how to deal with resistant pathogens as well as antimicrobial drug interactions, and will elucidate current and new approaches to treatment options. This educational resource will recommend how emerging bacterial resistance in clinical settings can be kept to a minimum, as well as address the latest scientific advances in understanding bacterial infections.

Downloading & Self-Evaluation: Content is also downloadable and highly suited to teaching purposes. This resource permits registered users to “Ask an Expert” related to clinical questions that arise in the course of the many challenges of managing patients with bacterial respiratory tract infections that have acquired resistance to treatment.

This Program is Accredited & Registration is Free: This program is accredited for learning activities for Canadian physicians, pharmacists, and community specialists. By registering you will be able to navigate easily through the content of the presented modules. By conducting a self-test, prior to your review of content, you will be able to evaluate your baseline knowledge, and after completion, conduct a post-test evaluation.

Enhance & Evaluate Your Practice Skills: The Web resource is developed to enhance and facilitate improvement in your practice skills. Cases relating to each module allows for the application of knowledge to be applied to practical management expertise. Physician and pharmacist users can test their improvement in knowledge through self-test assessments.