Upcoming Classes

"Innovative STI clinic models: Express Visits, Self-collection of STI tests"

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 update of STI testing models, includes 4 hours of lectures.   Faculty from the St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center will discuss how STI testing can be adapted to optimize sexual health services. Topics will include express visits and clinics adapting to the pandemic.

Course Objectives:

· Describe Express Visits and how they can be helpful for STI clinic settings.

· Detail how to implement self-collected STI testing.

. Discuss the utility of at-home testing and the impact of the COVID pandemic on STI/ Sexual Health care.

2021 GA Annual STD Update Program

Overview:

The 2021 Update will provide up-to-date information on prevention, management and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. The program will also include case studies that will review common disease states that may complicate treatment, explore emerging infections, and discuss the future of testing technique implementation.

This one-day continuing education conference will be held in virtual via zoom webinar on June 8th  and June 10th.  Space is limited so register early for this conference. This registration link is for the June 8, 2021 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM EASTERN TIME.

Objectives:

Increase knowledge about Georgia’s best practices in partner treatment for STD/STI prevention and control.

Identify cultural dynamics that can either help or hinder the interaction between patients and health professionals.

Identify opportunities to integrate culturally competent care the provision of routine STD services.

Review the clinical manifestations, epidemiology and emerging trends in vaginitis and other vaginal infections.

Review the clinical manifestations, epidemiology and emerging trends in Mycoplasma Genitalium

Viewing Options:

This course requires two registrations. You will recieve an email a link to complete the Zoom registtraion with your NNPTC confirmation. Please make note of the details section on the NNPTC confirmation.

Target Audience:

This knowledge-based activity is targeted to physicians, advanced practice providers, pharmacists, nurses, public health workers and other health care providers.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, the Alabama-North Carolina Prevention Training Center and Georgia Deparment of Public Health provides compassionate education and respectful care for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

Agenda: June 8, 2021 

8:45 AM      Meeting Room Opens/ Attendee Check-in

9:30 AM      Welcome and Introductions 

                  Aiesha Gentry and Joy Lewis

 9:40 AM     Update in Gonorrhea and Mycoplasma Genitalium 

                  William Geisler, MD, MPH | University of Alabama at Birmingham   

10:40 AM    Update in Vaginal Infections (recorded)

                  Christina Muzny, MD | University of Alabama at Birmingham

11:40 AM    Break

12:00 PM    Update in Screening and Diagnostics

                  Barbara Van der Pol, PhD | University of Alabama at Birmingham

12:30 PM    Healthcare Cultural Humility 

                  Scott Rhodes, PhD | Wake Forest School of Medicine

1:30 PM      Adjourn/Evaluation

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.

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.