Preparing to make recommendations:

As students head into this final section of the module, they have already begun to see that there are many facets of MRSA: the infection, transmission, spread, and evolution. The goal for managing the public health challenge is to understand HOW different interventions work on these different aspects of MRSA.

One way to prepare for this is to anticipate the fit between the solutions that are discussed in the texts, and brainstorm the ones that students may come up with, and think about how that impacts the infection, transmission, spread and evolution. It is easy to overlook the evolutionary aspect of the phenomenon (or perhaps avoid it altogether because it’s so hard to deal with!). Push students to examine the influence any given proposed solution might have and really workout all the reasoning for HOW and IN WHAT WAYS it would impact MRSA