Class Information

Class Information

Wet Mount Course: Examination and Interpretation of Wet Preparations of Vaginal Specimens (in-person only)
Starting:
1/30/2025
Ending:
1/30/2025
Status:
Closed
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Cost:
FREE
Credit Hours:
3



Thank you for your interest in the Wet Mount course. Please note registration is now closed as the course is full. If you would like to receive notifications about upcoming STI Clinical courses, including future wet mount course offerings, you can sign-up for the CAPTC STI Clinical Training listserv here.

 

Wet Mount course (in-person only): Examination and Interpretation of Wet Preparations of Vaginal Specimens

Thursday, January 30, 2025

2:00p.m.-5:00p.m. (PST)

San Francisco, CA

3.0 CME units at no cost

 

Course Description:

In-person laboratory course intended for practicing clinicians with prior wet mount experience and microscopy skills.

The course begins with a 15-minute didactic presentation on applicable issues of CLIA regulation, quality control, and interpretation vaginal wet mount (VWM) for common causes of vaginitis. This will be followed by a fifteen minute video that details through the microscope footage of findings on VWM including trichomonads, yeast and clue cells associated with BV. The remaining two and one-half hours consists of experiential training, including laboratory practicum on examination of saline and KOH vaginal wet mounts (VWM). During this portion of the training, participants will have an opportunity for group discussion, explanation, and demonstration, as well as practice and return demonstration.

 

Instructors:

  • Sharon Adler, MD, MPH
  • Lee Fagen, NP
  • Tamar Besson, NP

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Practice proper preparation of saline and KOH specimens of vaginal fluid to increase viability of specimens for microscopic evaluation.

  • Perform proper use of the light microscope to improve examination of saline and KOH wet mount specimens.

  • Assess wet mount microscopy specimens to appropriately interpret findings that support diagnosis of vulvovaginal candidiasis, bacterial vaginosis or trichomoniasis.

 

Registration Overview:

Wet Mount course capacity limited to 12 persons. 

Within 24 hours of registering:

  • You will receive an email confirmation from training@nnptc.org to the email address you used to register for the course on NNPTC. Please review the important course details included in the registration confirmation.

  • IMPORTANT: Your registration is Pending or Wait Listed until reviewed by program staff. Please allow 3-5 business days for review and email confirmation of your registration status from program staff.

  • Registration prioritized for those attending the morning STI Intensive 1/2 day Didactic in-person training at UCSF PRIDE Hall.

  • NOTE: If you do not have prior wet mount experience and microscopy skills and/or unable to attend this in-person only course onsite at UCSF Parnassus in San Francisco, CA; will result in the cancellation of your registration.

 

 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and California Prevention Training Center. The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education to physicians. The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Nurses may receive continuing education credit for this educational activity as the ANCC accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ through its reciprocity agreement. Nurses should check with their individual licensing boards to confirm the acceptability of AMA credits for the purpose of licensing renewal. 
 
As an accredited provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. In order to assure that information is presented in a scientific and objective manner, The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine requires that anyone in a position to control or influence the content of a continuing medical education activity disclose relevant financial relationships with any commercial or proprietary entity producing health care goods or services relevant to the content being planned or presented. All presenters, planners or anyone in a position to control the content of this continuing medical education activity have indicated that neither they nor their spouse/legally recognized domestic partner has any financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this activity.


Elizabeth Olson 510-625-6016 Elizabeth.Olson@ucsf.edu