Upcoming Classes

An optional 2-day clinical practicum is available to participants who complete the "Clinical STD Update" in Yakima, WA on September 21, 2017.

Practica are scheduled to take place within 2-3 months following students' completion of the didactic portion of the course - your training dates will be scheduled after you register for the practicum.

The clinical practicum includes basic examination skills, skill development in sexual history taking, review of clinical case studies, and hands-on experience in the STD clinic and laboratory. The practicum includes participation in performing STD-related examination of patients in the presence of a skilled preceptor. Laboratory training includes hands-on training in the practice of rapid syphilis tests and saline and darkfield microscopy. Continuing Education is available.

Practica may be conducted at the following locations (subject to change):

Public Health - Seattle & King County STD Clinic at Harborbiew Medical Center, Seattle, WA

The practicum is designed for clinicians and for students in medical professions training programs who have had previous training or experience in performing pelvic exams.

Continuing Nursing Education: A certificate for 11.0 contact hours (of which -0- are in pharmacology at the advanced practice level) will be awarded for completing all course activities, a pre/post test and an evaluation.

 Continuing Nursing Education at the University of Washington School of Nursing (UWCNE) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).

The Baltimore City Health Department offers 2 types of reproductive health services in the STD Clinics:  1. STD medical management could cover, for example, the various new and old tests available for sexually transmitted infections, such as syphilis.  Also discussed would be the recommended treatments for the different infections; and 2. Early HIV care could cover, for example, when to start treatment, adherence, resistance to medication, and opportunistic infections associated with HIV infection.  Clinical staff must have ongoing clinical training in order to maintain levels of competence in these areas.  To that end, the STD Program has requested that the STD/HIV Prevention Training Center (PTC) at Johns Hopkins conduct periodic surveys of the clinicians, the medical supervisors and the program manager to determine those training needs.  Quality assurance review and emerging community needs are also considered in the development of the Grand Rounds for the year.  This activity will increase knowledge in STI and HIV of the various clinical staff who attend.  We offer an informal needs assessment of all staff to find out what other topics of interest they are interested hearing.  This is a 1 -2 hour program.  CE credit is available  This is a FP Training for the clinical staff only

Laboratory courses integrate lectures on methodology, interpretive techniques, observations and demonstrations with hands-on exercises using clinical specimens.

Barbara Gray 617-983-6861 barbara.gray@state.ma.us

9:00AM - 4:30PM

Interact for Health Conference Facility
3805 Edwards Rd Ste 500
Cincinnati, OH 45209

Physicians, physician assistants, nurses and nurse practitioners are welcome to attend.
**Non-clinical professionals will be automatically placed on the waitlist** 

Course Objectives:

1. Describe current STD/HIV screening strategies and diagnostic algorithms.
2. Describe current STD/HIV treatment recommendations.

View the Agenda

Please note - Due to funding restrictions, we will not be able to provide food or beverages at this training. 

Registration

Online registration is required. Space is limited. If you have not registered with our site before, please follow the instructions for "New Registrants" - you will need to enter your email address twice to begin. Returning users may login with their email and password.

Your registration application does not guarantee a seat at the symposium. In an effort to ensure representation from diverse settings and locations across the state, applications will be considered, and approved registrants will receive a separate confirmation email.

Confirmation emails will be sent from the domain @cumc.columbia.edu. 

Continuing Education

CME: 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 & Prevention and NYC STD/HIV Prevention Training Center. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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 6.0 contact hours.

Non-MD CME is also available.

Please note: Continuing education for this course is only available through the CDC Training and Continuing Education Online system (CDC TCEO). Participants will receive instructions for how to register with CDC TCEO, complete the online evaluation and receive a CE certificate. Participants will have approximately 1 month after the course date to complete the CE process. 

Laboratory courses integrate lectures on methodology, interpretive techniques, observations and demonstrations with hands-on exercises using clinical specimens.  This course is open to students enrolled in the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions only.  It will be held from 10AM-12 PM.

Barbara Gray 617-983-6861 barbara.gray@state.ma.us

This five-day course is open to clinicians offering STI services.  The curriculum includes didactic presentations by experienced faculty; one day of experiential training in laboratory techniques; one clinical day with a preceptor; and, “hands-on” training in a directed sexual/reproductive health examination by genital teaching associates.  Class size is limited to 8-10 participants. Continuing Education is provided. Schedule – class schedule set annually.  The cost for this class is $250.00

ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS:

CME activities with Joint Sponsors: 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 STD/HIV Prevention Training Center at Johns Hopkins.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the (ACCME^®) to provide medical education for physicians.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this live for a maximum of 32.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CEU:  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is authorized by IACET to offer 3.3 CEU's for this program. 

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, 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 with the exception of Dr. Paul Nyirjesy and he wishes to disclose he receives research grants and honorariums from Genesis Biotechnology Group, Medicis, Novadign and Hologics.  Also Dr. Richard Sterling wishes to disclose he receives research grants and honorariums from Gilead, Abbott/Abbvie, Genentech, Merck, BMS, Vertex, Salix Boehringer Ingelheim and Bayer.  Ms. Judy Wessell wishes to disclose she receives honorariums from ViiV, BMS, and Gilead.

Planning committee discussed conflict of interest with Dr. Paul Nyirjesy, Dr. Richard Sterling and Ms. Judy Wessell to ensure there is no bias. 

Presentations will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use with the exception of Dr. Khalil Ghanem’s discussion on STIs especially Gonorrhea and Chlamydia.  He will be discussing NAATS for extragenital testing currently recommended by CDC.  Dr. Paul Nyirjesy’s lecture on Vaginitis/Cervicitis will be discussing treatments for complicated forms of vaginitis, for which there are no labeled products.  None of these are products produced by the commercial interests labeled in table 3 on disclosure and recommendations are based on peer-reviewed guidelines such as the CDC STD Treatment Guidelines.  Dr. Richard Sterling’s lecture on Hepatitis will be discussing use of DAA in treating HCV.  Dr. Michael Rein’s lecture on Bacterial and Viral STI’s will discuss data supported newer approaches to treatment.

CDC does not accept commercial support.

Tuesday, October 17 2017
9:00am - 4:30pm

The Graduate Center, CUNY
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 1st Floor
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016

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, including sexual history taking, biomedical HIV prevention, and contraception; mental health; and strategies to provide comprehensive care to LGBTQ patients.

This free symposium is designed for clinical providers such as physicians, physician assistants, nurses and nurse practitioners who provide direct care to adolescent patients. We would like to acknowledge our symposium partners: Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, Physicians for Reproductive Health, and the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene Bureau of STD Control. 

View the Conference Flyer with Agenda

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! 

Objectives

1. Describe best practices for providing comprehensive adolescent healthcare
2. Describe the local epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among the adolescent population.
3. Describe current STD screening strategies for adolescent patients.
4. Describe the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis among adolescent patients.

Registration

Online registration is required. Space is limited. If you have not registered with our site before, please follow the instructions for "New Registrants" - you will need to enter your email address twice to begin. Returning users may login with their email and password.

Priority will be given to clinical providers. Approved registrants will receive a confirmation email (separate from the registration confirmation email) from the domain @cumc.columbia.edu. 

Non-clinical providers will be automatically placed on a waitlist. 

Continuing Education

Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) for this activity is pending. Final information will be posted to the registration page and emailed to attendees. 


Please note: Continuing education for this course will be available through the CDC Training and Continuing Education Online system (CDC TCEO), which is a separate from this registration system.  Instructions for how to register with CDC TCEO, complete the online evaluation and receive a CE certificate will be included in your symposium booklet. Participants will have approximately 1 month after the course date to complete the CE process. 

Clinical course features 1 days of on-site training that include 2015 STD Guideline review, case discussions, use of motivational interviewing,  and hands-on laboratory instruction (wet mount) PLUS  1 days of clinical experience to be scheduled within three weeks of didactic session.

Barbara Gray 617-983-6861 barbara.gray@state.ma.us

This 1-day update will cover current issues in the clinical management of STIs and HIV.

Allison Finkenbinder 303-602-3621 allison.finkenbinder@dhha.org

This course will take place across two half-day sessions on Wednesday November 15th and Monday November 20th. Attendance for both sessions is mandatory.

This course instructs students in the basics of blood draw technique, including tourniquet tying, finding and preparing a suitable vein, appropriate blood tube use, proper materials disposal and safety. The class is taught through lecture and hands-on practice on both simulated models and other course participants (not mandatory).

This course is designed for health care workers who wish to develop or enhance phlebotomy skills.

An optional 2-day clinical practicum is available to participants who complete the "Clinical STD Update" in Eugene, OR on November 29, 2017.

Practica are scheduled to take place within 2-3 months following students' completion of the didactic portion of the course - your training dates will be scheduled after you register for the practicum.

The clinical practicum includes basic examination skills, skill development in sexual history taking, review of clinical case studies, and hands-on experience in the STD clinic and laboratory. The practicum includes participation in performing STD-related examination of patients in the presence of a skilled preceptor. Laboratory training includes hands-on training in the practice of rapid syphilis tests and saline and darkfield microscopy. Continuing Education is available.

Practica may be conducted at the following locations (subject to change):

Multnomah County STD Clinic, Portland, OR

The practicum is designed for clinicians and for students in medical professions training programs who have had previous training or experience in performing pelvic exams.

Continuing Nursing Education: A certificate for 11.0 contact hours (of which -0- are in pharmacology at the advanced practice level) will be awarded for completing all course activities, a pre/post test and an evaluation.

 Continuing Nursing Education at the University of Washington School of Nursing (UWCNE) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).

This one-day event on Dec. 1, 2017 honors World AIDS Day and addresses emerging concerns related to HIV and STDs in Texas Service Region 1.

Location:  Lubbock Memorial Civic Center

Time:  8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Target audience:  MDs, PAs, NPs, RNs, and all other health professionals

Topics will include:

• Increaseing Rates of HIV and STIs in Texas
• STD/HIV Screening and Treatment Recommendations
• The Syphilis Epidemic in Texas
• PrEP
• STDs in Minors
• Transgender Health
• Social Media and STDs

Cost:  None!

CME/CNE Available

Breakfast and Lunch Provided

For more information:  Contact Tammy Moriearty at 806-783-6472, tammy.moriearty@dshs.texas.gov or Teri Anderson at 303-602-3602, teri.anderson@dhha.org.

The course, an intensive overview of STDs, includes 14 hours of lecture over two days (clinical training will be scheduled on a case by case basis).  Topics presented include:  gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, trichomoniasis, PID,  genital herpes, HPV, Hepatitis B, chancroid, urethritis/cervicitis syndromes, pediculosis/ scabies, HIV/AIDS, partner management, and case studies.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:  At the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Describe clinical features of common STDs.
• Demonstrate improved skills in completing STD history and physical exam.
• Integrate HIV risk assessment into patient care.
• Demonstate universal precautions during specimen collection.
• Describe the process of partner notification and contact tracing.
• Discuss recent changes to the CDCs STD Treatment guidelines.
• Identify current point-of-care tests available for STD diagnosis.
• Recognize the sign and symptoms of Primary, latent and late latent syphilis.
• List current vaccines available for STDs.

This training is for infectious disease fellows and features 16 hours of didactic lectures and case discussions, along with 13 hours of on-site clinical training, which includes a hands-on laboratory (wet mounts/gram stain) and clinical skills practicum.

Barbara Gray 617-983-6861 barbara.gray@state.ma.us

SAVE THE DATE

This 2-day didactic STD Update course provides participants with training in the most recent advancements in the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of viral & bacterial STDs.  This course is designed for clinicians practicing in Washington, but clinicians from other areas are welcome to attend.  An optional 2-day clinical practicum is available to participants who complete this Update.

Seattle, Washington
February 14-15, 2018

Hotel rooms, dinner meals, and parking fees are not covered in the registration fee and are the participants’ responsibility.  Lunch and a Continental breakfast will be provided each day.