Upcoming Classes

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 from the St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center will use case discussions to present important diagnosis and treatment issues for common STIs.

Course Objectives:

* Describe treatment guidelines with emphasis on signs and symptoms

* Detail on the importance of sexual history taking

* Understand STI testing including congential syphilis

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.

Syndromic Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections-Part 1

Presented by Drs. Rosalyn Plotzker, Akanksha Vaidya, and Eric Tang

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 from 12:00PM-1:15PM (PDT)

1.25 CME units offered at no cost

Registration will close on October 17, 2022 at 3:00PM (PDT)

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) continues to see statewide increases in all reportable sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. For many patients, these STIs manifest as a complex syndrome that involves local and systemic symptoms. This webinar is the first of a two-part series, featuring Drs. Rosalyn Plotzker, Akanksha Vaidya, and Eric Tang of the CDPH Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Branch who will lead a case-based discussion on the presentation, diagnosis and syndromic management of STIs.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the differential diagnosis and management of patients with vaginal discharge and pelvic pain
• Discuss the exam findings and treatment of patients with penile discharge and testicular pain
• Explain the management of patients with anorectal pain in the setting of a known STI exposure 

Registration Confirmation

• Registrants will receive an email confirmation from training@nnptc.org within 24 hours of registering for the webinar.
• Registrants should review the NNPTC confirmation email prior to attending the webinar, which includes important information on CME requirements, accessing available course materials, and receiving post-webinar email notifications.
  

Webinar Link

• Registrants will receive an email notification from captc@ucsf.edu with the webinar link 1-business day prior to the start of the webinar.
• Please note: Those not registered on NNPTC who access and view the webinar will not be counted in attendance or eligible to receive CME credit.  

ACCME Disclosure

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 University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the 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 1.25 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 nursing education credit for this educational activity as the ANCC accepts AMA PRA Category Credits™ through its reciprocity agreement. The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Financial Disclosure

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.

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.

Examination and Interpretation of Wet Preparations of Vaginal Specimens

Thursday, November 3, 2022 from 2:00PM-5:00PM (PDT)

UCSF Parnassus Heights Campus, San Francisco, CA

Instructors: Sharon Adler, MD, MPH & Lee Fagen, NP

Intended for Practicing Clinicians with Prior Wet Mount Experience  

The course begins with a fifteen 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 trichomads, 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.

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 trichomoniaisis.

ACCME Disclosure

Financial Disclosure

This training is for Fellows in their last year of training and features 16 hours of didactic lectures and case discussions.  The training will be held in person at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. There two optional add ons to this training:

Brightfield Microscopy Workshop will be 1/2 day 

Clinical shadowing at MGH Sexual Health Clinic will be 1/2 day