Upcoming Classes

TARGET AUDIENCE
Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives, nurses) in public or private practice who examine and treat individuals at risk for STDs/HIV. Applicants may include clinicians who work in family planning, adolescent health, women’s health, primary care, urgent care, or community health centers.

Clinical Courses feature 2 days of onsite training that includes 2015 STD guideline review, case discussions, use of Motivational Interviewing and disease reporting procedures.

Overview: 

This course provides an intensive overview of STIs by facilitating  lecture over two days. Topics include: gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, vaginal infections,  genital herpes, HPV, hepatitis B, mycoplasma genitalium, urethritis/cervicitis syndromes, HIV/AIDS, prevention strategies, PrEP, EPT, and clinical case studies.

Target Audience: Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives, nurses) in public or private practice who examine and treat individuals at risk for STDs/HIV. Applicants may include clinicians who work in family planning, adolescent health, women’s health, primary care, urgent care, or community health centers.

Course Objectives:  At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe clinical features of reportable STDs: syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia.
• Understand current STD epidemiological landscape
• Recognize clinical presentations of common viral STDs:  genital herpes, HPV
• Demonstrate improved skills in completing STD history and physical exam.
• Discuss clinical characteristics of common vaginal infections:  trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, candidiasis
• Integrate HIV risk assessment into patient care.
• Demonstrate precautions during specimen collection.
• Describe current approaches to STD/HIV prevention including pre-exposure prophylaxis and expedited partner therapy.
• Discuss evidence-based strategies for STD treatment, according to CDC’s STD Treatment Guidelines.

Contact: Aiesha Gentry | E: aieshagentry@uabmc.edu 

               Joy Lewis       | E: jsbrown@uabmc.edu

Registration closes on June 22, 2021 at 12:00 PM CT

Due to COVID-19 response measures, all courses will be facilitated virtually. The Southeast PTC is are offering in-person training at this time. 

The Southeast Prevention Training Center Learning Community seeks to build capacity across the southeast region, particularly in rural and underserved areas, to best serve patients diagnosed and living with a STD and/or HIV. 

This community learning platform is desgined to discuss challenging cases or barriers and garner the group’s feedback on solutions.

Target Audience:  Physicians, midlevel practitioners (PA, NP), nurses, and other health professionals who see patients with or at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Course Description:   This course, an intensive overview of STIs, includes 14 hours of lecture over two days. Topics will include updated treatment and management information as well as case based discussions. 

Course Objectives:   At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

* Describe clinical features of reportable STIs: syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia

* Recognize clinical presentations of common viral STIs: herpes, HPV, HSV

* Understand current STI epidemiological patterns

* Demonstrate improved skills in completing a trauma informed and gender affirming STI history and physical exam

* Discuss clinical characteristics of common vaginal infections: trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, candidiasis

* Integrate HIV risk assessment into patient care

* Describe current approaches to STI/HIV prevention including pre-exposure prophylaxis and expedited partner therapy

* Discuss evidence-based patient management strategies following CDC’s STI Treatment Guidelines

This 3.5 hour virtual workshop will present knowledge and techniques necessary for the proper collection, examination and reporting of vaginal wet preps. The course is divided into three sections: 1. Presentation on the Diagnosis of Vaginal Infections; 2. Video on Examination of Vaginal Wet Mounts proper use of the compound microscope; and 3. Virtual Practicum of known and unknown vaginal fluid specimens.

Providers who live in the following regional states are given priority slots in course: AR, CO, LA, MS, OK, TX, UT, WY 

Time: 8:00 am - 11:30 am

CE:  This course offers 3.0 hours of CNE/CME

For course content questions, please contact course instructor: Teri Anderson, teri.anderson@dhha.org, 720-234-7138

For technical questions related to the virtual delivery of the course, please contact program assistant: Nexi Sanchez, at Nexi.SanchezVillalobos@dhha.org or 720-789-1181 

Update on STI Treatment Recommendations: Implications for Clinical Settings

Target Audience:  Physicians, midlevel practitioners (PA, NP), nurses, and other health professionals who see patients with or at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Course Description: Faculty and staff from the St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center will discuss the recent CDC guidance on gonorrhea treatment as well as forthcoming changes to the CDC STI Treatment Guidelines. Topics will include evidence-based approaches to STI epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Course Objectives:

· Discuss current approaches to gonorrhea diagnosis and treatment.

· Describe the role of antimicrobial stewardship in the management of urethritis, including management strategies for chlamydia.

· Describe current literature on the management of vaginitis.