Upcoming Classes

This course is likely to be held in person at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Clinical Courses feature 2 days of in-person training that includes 2021 CDC STI Treatment Guidelines review, case discussions, use of Motivational Interviewing and disease reporting procedures.  

Course participants must self-attest to full vaccination against both Covid-19 and Influenza.

Our Learning Communities seek 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, Viral Hepatitis and other infectious dieases. 

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

If you would like to be a part of the Georgia Department of Health ECHO community, please go to or share the following link https://forms.gle/LLXjCm8chrZmCY9z9 to complete the registration form. (The GDH ECHO registration will not register you for CE. Please complete the NNPTC registration to be eligible for CE.

ACCREDITATION:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the AccreditationCouncil for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Alabama School ofMedicine (UASOM); the southeast STD/HIV Prevention Training Center; the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB),Division of Infectious Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program; UAB Alabama AIDS Training Education Center(AATEC) / Southeast AIDS Training Center (SEATEC); and the Jefferson County Department of Health. The UASOM isaccredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University Of Alabama School OfMedicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim onlythe credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. UAB is an equal opportunity /affirmativeaction institution.

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

Course Description:  This course, an intensive overview of STDs, includes 14 hours of lecture over two days. (Optional clinical training can 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, prevention strategies / PrEP / EPT, and case studies.

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 patterns
• Describe clinical features of common bacterial STDs:  syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia
• 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 universal 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.

This one hour webinar will discuss current trends of gonorrhea in CO, management and treatment of GC infections, assessment and management of treatment failures, new test-of-cure recommendations, use of EPT to manage sexual partners and Disseminated Gonococcal Infections.

This training is for Fellows in their last year of training and features 16 hours of didactic lectures and case discussions. We do not know at this time if this will be held in person or virtually.  That decision will be made later in the year with guidance from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and others involved with planning this event.