CME ON-DEMAND
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Pacific AETC Nevada’s E-Learning
Online and On-Demand Learning
The Pacific AETC-NV offers engaging and interactive online learning opportunities to increase healthcare providers' knowledge and awareness of HIV and STI-related health topics. Online and on-demand programming offer an alternative to in-person sessions for busy healthcare professionals.
Pacific AETC Nevada’s E-Learning
The E-Learning Portal is a free, 508 compliant, HIV, Hepatitis, and STI online learning site offering CME, nursing CE, and pharmacy CE for Nevada’s healthcare professionals.
Registration - Free
There is no charge to participate in the sessions.
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SB 325 Pharmacy-Based PrEP
Provides 2.00 hours of CE/CME credit.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Summarize the Nevada Board of Pharmacy regulations governing pharmacy-based PrEP and PEP
- Explain the process of HIV transmission and how HIV is treated
- Conduct a thorough and culturally competent sexual history and risk assessment
- Manage PEP and PrEP for a variety of patients
- Explain the importance of medication adherence to patients taking PEP or PrEP
- Summarize pharmacists’ scope of practice for HIV prevention services including PEP and PrEP
- Discuss case studies pertaining to PEP and PrEP
- Describe sources of funding and financial assistance for PEP and PrEP, including the clinical consultation
- Describe three challenges for the implementation of pharmacy-based PEP and PrEP programs and strategies to address them
Presenters
Christina Madison, PharmD, FCCP, AAHIVP, Founder, The Public Health Pharmacist. Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Roseman University of Health Sciences, Faculty, Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center- Nevada, Henderson, NV
Rob Phoenix, APRN, FNP-C, Owner, Huntridge Family Clinic, Faculty, Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center- Nevada
Las Vegas, NV
Rosanne Sugay, MD, MPH, AAHIVM, Physician, UMC Wellness, Medical Director, Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center- Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Sexual History Taking and Sex Positivity
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Conduct a thorough sexual history with a variety of patients
- Discuss potential barriers to sexual history taking
- List strategies to build communication skills in conducting a sexual history
Presenter
Rosalyn E. Plotzker, M.D., MPH, Assistant Professor, UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Public Health Medical Officer, CDPH STD Control Branch, Clinical Faculty, California Prevention Training Center
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2021 Nevada Legislative Updates on HIV and STIs: Implications for YOUR Practice
Provides 0.75 hours of CE/CME credit.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- List legislative initiatives around HIV and STIs
- List requirements of SB211, SB275, and SB325
- Apply screening guidelines for STIs and HIV
- Understand HIV prevention (screening / PEP / PrEP) that can be implemented in various clinical settings
Presenter
Rosanne Sugay, M.D., MPH, AAHIVS, Physician, Wellness Center, University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Medical Director, Pacific AETC- Nevada
The STI National Strategic Plan
Provides 0.75 hours of CE/CME credit.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Discuss individuals at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI)
- Discuss options for STI prevention for persons at risk
- Identify priority populations for STI prevention services
- Provide patient education around STI prevention services
- List current treatment options for STI
Presenter
Rob Phoenix, APRN, FNP-C, HIV-PCP, Nurse Practitioner, Huntridge Family Clinic, Faculty, Pacific AETC-Nevada
A Process of Change: Integrating HIV/STI Prevention into Primary Care Practice
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Apply screening guidelines for HIV
- Understand HIV prevention (screening / PEP / PrEP/U=U/TaSP) that can be implemented in various clinical settings
- List requirements of Senate Bill 211
Presenter
Rosanne Sugay, M.D., MPH, AAHIVS, Physician, Wellness Center, University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Medical Director, Pacific AETC- Nevada
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PrEP Implementation in Primary Care
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss individuals at risk for HIV and who could benefit from HIV prevention services
- Discuss options for HIV prevention for persons at risk of HIV
- Identify priority populations for HIV prevention services
- Provide patient education around HIV prevention services such as TaSP, U=U and medication options
- Identify at least 3 steps to getting PrEP services started in your practice setting
- Identify appropriate candidates for HIV biomedical interventions
Presenter
Rob Phoenix, APRN, FNP-C, HIV-PCP, Nurse Practitioner, Huntridge Family Clinic, Faculty, Pacific AETC-Nevada
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Congenital Syphilis
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe congenital syphilis epidemiology
- Discuss screening updates and POT screening
- Explain the pathophysiology, manifestations, and treatment for congenital syphilis
Presenters
Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor | UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Clinical Faculty| California Prevention Training Center | Provider | UCSF Anal Neoplasia, Clinic, Research and Education (ANCRE) Center | Public Health Medical Officer| CDPH STD Control Branch
Elizabeth Kessler, MPH
OPHIE Surveillance Manager | Office of Public Health Investigations and Epidemiology | Division of Public and Behavioral Health | Nevada Department of Health and Human Services
Doxycycline PEP
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Summarize data from recent studies exploring the use of doxy PEP to prevent bacterial STIs
- Review the primary individual and population-level concerns surrounding doxy PEP
- Compare potential strategies for doxy PEP implementation in clinical settings
Presenter
Tamara Ooms, RN, MS, FNP
Clinical Faculty and Program Manager, California Prevention Training Center, UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health
Xylazine and HIV in the Era of Synthetic Street Drugs
Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe how the sudden expansion of xylazine, fentanyl, and crystal methamphetamine use is related to the history of US drug markets since 1990
- Describe how each of these substances relate to one another in the experience of consumption and in their public health impact, including on HIV and drug overdose risk
- Examine avenues for novel public health interventions to minimize the risk of HIV, drug overdose, and related comorbidities, as well as to regulate drug markets to make them less toxic and less economically exploitative for both people who use drugs and people who sell them
Presenters
Fernando Montero, PhD
Chief T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University
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