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The Pennsylvania/MidAtlantic AIDS ETC is the organizer of statewide Quality Management Training
for HIV Providers. The Quality Management special website section can be accessed here:
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The Pennsylvania/Mid-Atlantic AETC offers health professionals in all disciplines a variety of programs at different levels, all taught by an expert, multidisciplinary faculty. The goal is to provide health professionals with the latest information on state-of-the-art care and treatment of the person with HIV/AIDS. A particular focus is the training of primary care providers involved in direct provision of clinical care to persons with HIV/AIDS.
Who Can Benefit From the Training?
Primary health care professionals from all disciplines, especially those who serve minority communities, as well as faculty and students from health professions schools, are encouraged to attend.
Among those who can benefit from participation are: Physicians, Physicians' assistants, Dentists, Dental hygienists, Nurses, Nurse practitioners, Nurse midwives, Allied health professionals, Counselors, and Social Workers.
The AIDS Education and Training Center targets various types of clinical care providers from low to high volume HIV treaters. Low volume clinical HIV treaters are largely targeted for clinical consultation and referral services. Medium volume HIV treaters are mainly targeted for clinical consultation and clinical co-management. High volume HIV treaters are mainly targeted for HIV treatment updates. These high volume treaters also serve as experts for consultations with lower volume treaters. They also often serve as AETC faculty.
Level I: Didactic Presentation
Level I training activities are primarily didactic presentations, but can also include, panel discussions, self-instructional materials, journal clubs, teleconferences, etc. Programs vary in length from brief lectures to conferences.
Level II: Skill Building Workshop
Level II training activities are primarily interactive and skills-building activities characterized by active trainee participation. These training activities may include interactive learning through discussion of cases supplied by trainer, role play, simulated patients, and train the trainer and other skill building activities. (Formerly Level II and some Level III activities)
Level III: Clinical Training
Level II training activities are custom designed programs offerred to physicians, nurses, advanced practice nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, physicians assistants, pharmacists, and other allied health professionals. Each program is tailored to fit the educational objectives of each provider, past HIV knowledge and experience, and the provider's areas of interest. Level III Clinical Training programs are clinical mini-residencies or preceptorships designed to provide learning experiences aimed at improving patient outcomes.
Level IV: Clinical Consultation
Level IV training activities consist of patient-specific clinical consultation provided to health care professionals. Characteristics of this level of training are:
- interaction between two clinicians, training initiated by trainee / topic selected by trainee and based on a patient-specific clinical question, discussion of state of the art clinical care, communication via telephone, electronic media, or in person on-site at trainee location, no direct contact between patient and trainer
- interaction supported financially or administratively by AETC funds
These training activities may include clinical consultation, case based discussion with cases supplied by trainee, or clinical consultation on-site at trainee's clinical setting.
Level V: Technical Assistance
Level V activities include technical assistance offered by the AETC grantee.
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