15 Oct 2025 Antimicrobial Durations in Practice – A Product of Magical Thinking in Medicine
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This TI Best Evidence webinar focussed on how we can think more critically about choosing antibiotic treatment durations. You can view or download the slide deck (PDF format) by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button.
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TITLE: Antimicrobial Durations in Practice – A Product of Magical Thinking in Medicine
WHEN: Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 12:00 PM PDT [convert to your local time]
WHERE: free online webinar.
SPEAKER: Dr. Davie Wong, infectious disease consultant at Royal Columbian Hospital and Eagle Ridge Hospital.
CME CREDITS: The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians. This activity meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 1.0 Mainpro+ Certified Activity credit. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES (by the end of this session, participants will be able to):
- Understand how we choose antibiotic treatment durations.
- Recognize the limitations of how we select durations.
- Know how to determine the optimal duration.
About the topic: When deciding on how long to treat a patient for their infection, prescribers often refer to guidelines that usually specify a fixed treatment length such as 5, 7 or 10 days. Have you ever wondered how experts came up with these numbers? Considering that clinicians have been prescribing such fixed durations for decades, it is expected that a solid foundation of evidence should exist to support this practice. Learn more at this upcoming thought-provoking webinar.
About the speaker: Dr. Davie Wong is an infectious disease consultant at Royal Columbian Hospital and Eagle Ridge Hospital in Fraser Health. He has an office practice in a multidisciplinary clinic in Burnaby called Centrio Medical Specialists. He also provides care for HIV patients at Positive Health Services clinic in Surrey. He is a member of the regional antimicrobial stewardship committee. Davie is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Disease at UBC. He obtained his medical degree and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Manitoba, before coming to UBC to complete his infectious disease fellowship.
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