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Baptist Health is Arkansas’ most comprehensive healthcare organization with over 200 points of access, including 12 hospitals (approximately 1700 beds in total), urgent care centers and over 100 primary and specialty care clinics in Arkansas. Our flagship hospital in Little Rock is an 827 bed level II trauma center with over 100 ICU beds and the only facility in the state to perform heart transplants. Our other major facility, Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock, is a 225 bed that has a graduate medical education (GME) program with family medicine, internal medicine and transitional year residents which affords opportunities for interdisciplinary rounds. Both Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock and North Little Rock have pharmacy residency programs, with the opportunity to precept for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infectious Diseases rotations. This position will also serve as a preceptor for the two colleges of pharmacy in Arkansas, with the opportunity to precept APPE Rotations. The Baptist Health System Antimicrobial Stewardship Program was established in 2017, and currently comprises two infectious diseases physicians and two antimicrobial stewardship p...harmacists. The mission of our program is to promote the appropriate use of antimicrobials through optimization of antimicrobial selection, dose, route of administration, and duration of therapy in order to facilitate positive patient outcomes and  minimize the development of resistance and toxicity. We provide infectious diseases education to clinical teams and individual clinicians, create facility-specific resources for evidence-based treatment pathways of many infectious diseases indications, and offer antimicrobial stewardship/infectious diseases expertise to all facilities at Baptist Health, including outpatient facilities. We are excited to expand our program so that we can continue to positively impact antimicrobial use across the Baptist Health System and Arkansas.