The risks of antibiotic resistance and consumption: learning with hands-on activities
Friday, September 14, 2012 - 08:01
in Health & Medicine
An innovative laboratory-based summer project -- Microbiology recipes: antibiotics a la carte -- addressing antibiotic resistance and natural antibiotics has been shown to be an effective strategy to increase high school students' awareness of antibiotic resistance and the relevance of rational antibiotic use. In contrast to traditional educational interventions, which mainly rely on large-scale information campaigns, this project's instructional design was devised to take advantage of the acknowledged benefits of laboratory work, by encouraging the participants' active engagement in their learning.