Online Learning Curriculum: Practice Transformation

Objectives:

• Practice taking a comprehensive sexual history from adult patients
• List key questions to ask about sexual history and explain why each component is relevant
• Describe the different STI testing guidelines for women and men
• Recognize how and when to perform STI testing in clinic

Objectives:

• Understand why Universal HIV Testing is important for HIV Prevention
• Understand why stigma is frequently a barrier to HIV Testing
• Learn other challenges to HIV Testing
• Understand the difference between Opt-In and Opt-Out HIV Testing
• Learn about the CDC HIV Screening Guidelines in Healthcare Settings
• Understand available testing assays for HIV
• Learn three methods of HIV Testing

Objectives:

• Understand the importance of taking a brief sexual health history
• Incorporate motivational interviewing techniques to respect and empower patients
• Learn to provide post-test counseling with:
  • HIV negative results
  • HIV positive results
  • HIV discordant results

Objectives:

• Explain the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity
• Describe the health disparities in the LGBTQ community
• Act as advocates and allies for LGBTQ patients
• Create a welcoming and supportive environment for LGBTQ patients
• Show youth how to use the Q Card to improve patient-provider communication
• Educate others about how to create safe and welcoming spaces for LGBTQ people

Objectives:

• Understand how data can be transformed into information to improve patient care
• Learn more about Patient Reported Outcomes and how that can transform patient care in the clinical setting
• Learn more about how data can improve operations within a clinical practice
• Become more aware of the importance of quality data and accurate documentation in the clinical setting
• Learn about ways to maintain information integrity and data quality in medical practice

Objectives:

• Identify which populations are most at risk for delayed LTC
• Articulate why LTC is an important contributor to HIV health
• Summarize goals of the 90-90-90- Target
• Summarize the main components of each LTC intervention featured in the CDC’s Compendium of Best Practices
• Describe the main phases of the Project CONNECT intervention as one example of a CDC-recognized
• Best Practice for LTC
• Identify the shared themes of each of the four LTC interventions discussed
• Identify the components necessary for implementing an LTC intervention
• Assess whether implementing an LTC intervention is feasible at your clinic
• Assess whether evaluating an LTC intervention is feasible at your clinic

Objectives:

• Discuss the state of science around the HIV Continuum of Care (“treatment cascade”)
• Describe the crucial role of linkage to care (LTC) along the HIV Continuum
• Recount our experiences with LTC in a large, academic-based clinic
• Introduce Project CONNECT as an evidence-informed intervention for improving LTC
• Provide additional considerations for optimizing health outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum

Objectives:

• Explain the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity
• Describe the health disparities in the LGBTQ community
• Act as advocates and allies for LGBTQ patients
• Create a welcoming and supportive environment for LGBTQ patients
• Show youth how to use the Q Card to improve patient-provider communication
• Educate others about how to create safe and welcoming spaces for LGBTQ people

Objectives:

• Describe Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and the major barriers to administration
• Summarize the indications of PrEP in high-risk patient populations
• Understand how to implement PrEP in your clinic
• Determine barriers for PrEP implementation for insured and non-insured patients

Objectives:

• Describe current epidemiological trends in the HIV epidemic;
• Describe key points in HIV pathogenesis;
• Describe current treatment standards;
• Describe various ways that clinics can manage HIV related healthcare.

Objectives:

• Recognize the tests and screenings needed for patients newly diagnosed with HIV
• Describe primary prophylaxis for opportunistic infections
• Determine appropriate initiation of ART regimens for patients newly diagnosed with HIV
• Identify strategies to improve adherence to ART regimen

Objectives:

• List antiretroviral treatment goals and tools to achieving these goals
• Review the process for selecting antiretroviral regimens
• Identify common mechanisms for drug interactions with antiretrovirals
• Discuss clinically significant drug interactions for patients with HIV

Objectives:

• Select comprehensive labs needed to prescribe antiretroviral therapy (ART)
• Create an initial ART regimen
• Identify drug-drug interactions and contraindications with ART
• Assess for ART resistance

Objectives:

• Discuss the occurrence of and risk factors for oral lesions in patients with HIV (PWH)
• Describe the relationship between oral health and overall health and disease control
• Explain the causative factors for increase in common oral manifestations
• Demonstrate how to perform an intraoral and extraoral examination
• Describe the trend in oral manifestations in the era of antiretroviral therapy (ART)
• Diagnose oral manifestation present in the era of ART
• Discuss therapies available to treat common oral manifestations

Objectives:

• Define the National HIV/AIDS Strategy Goals for linkage to and retention in HIV medical care
• Review the importance of retention in HIV care
• Present the epidemiology of HIV Care continuum
• Review evidence-based interventions to improve linkage to & retention in care
• Describe ways that HIV clinics can improve retention in HIV care

Objectives:

• Recognize contributors to bone density changes among people with HIV (PWH)
• Predict fracture risk in PWH through the use of diagnostic tools
• Summarize non-pharmacologic interventions in the management of low bone density
• Justify the use of osteoporosis medications in PWH