Cognizance and intervention of a pharmacist in antimicrobial stewardship program among students of health care professionals, a cross sectional study

Antimicrobial stewardship is a program which promotes the accurate use of antibiotic in which, a team is formed and under this team the strategies are made to overcome the misuse and inappropriate practice of antibiotics which leads to antibiotic resistance eventually. In our study we make a validated structured questionnaire which contained 12 close ended questions regarding this program and pharmacist intervention in antibiotic stewardship and was filled by the students of health care professionals, so far the study was done by the time span of 6 months from January 2016 till July 2016. Total 109 forms was filled by diverse eminent health care members of different institute, out of 109 only 29 personnel’s knew this term. Hence it is obvious that the neglecting circumstances of our students towards their profession.