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REGISTRATION FOR THIS SYMPOSIUM IS NOW CLOSED.
The New York City STD Prevention Training Center (NYC PTC) seeks to reduce health disparities among the NYC metro area adolescent population by increasing provider awareness about sexual health.
Presentations will include plenary sessions on opioids and adolescents, and challenging STI cases. Breakout sessions will include topics on reproductive health; mental health; biomedical HIV prevention; adolescent transgender healthcare; sex-positive social marketing; and adverse childhood experiences and the adolescent.
This free symposium is designed for clinical providers such as physicians, physician assistants, nurses and nurse practitioners who provide direct care to adolescent patients.
OBJECTIVES:
- Describe best practices for providing comprehensive sexual healthcare to adolescent patients.
- Describe current STD screening and treatment strategies for adolescent patients.
- Describe the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis among adolescent patients.
- Describe the importance of interprofessional collaboration related to sexual health among adolescent patients.
Please note - Due to funding restrictions, we will not be able to provide food or beverages at this training. Food and beverages are also prohibited from being brought into the main auditorium. There are several food places nearby to choose from during the lunch break. Thank you in advance for your understanding!
Registration Required
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Our funding requires us to prioritize clinical providers. Non-clinical providers such as health educators, social workers, administrators will be placed on a waitlist and accepted first come first serve based on space.
ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS:
CME activities with Joint Providers: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New York City STD Prevention Training Center. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the (ACCME®) to provide medical education for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
CNE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This activity provides 5.3 contact hours.
DISCLOSURE: In compliance with continuing education requirements, all presenters must disclose any financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters as well as any use of unlabeled product(s) or product(s) under investigational use.
CDC, our planners, our presenters (for enduring material, use “content experts” instead of “presenters”), and their spouses/partners wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters. Planners have reviewed content to ensure there is no bias.
Presentations (for enduring material, use “content” instead of “presentation”) will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use with the exception of Dr. Uri Belkind’s discussion on Adolescent Transgender Healthcare. He will be discussing gender-affirming hormone therapy, which is not FDA-approved.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New York City STD Prevention Training Center are jointly providing the CNE for this activity.
CDC did not accept commercial support for this continuing education activity.