BROADCAST: Effective STD/HIV Prevention Counseling for the Busy Primary Care Provider

Objectives:

By viewing this broadcast you will acquire: Strategies to integrate client centered STD/HIV risk assessment/risk reduction counseling into a clinic visit; Effective techniques to facilitate communication and patients' adoption of risk reduction behaviors; Key concepts of behavior change theory related to client-centered counseling; Results of relevant research.

Physicians, physician assistants, registered nurses, nurse practitioners and other advance practice nurses, counselors, educators, and other health care providers who provide care for people at risk for STD/HIV.

Moderator: Cornelis (Kees) Rietmeijer, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Health Behavioral Training Program, Denver STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, Denver CO.

Lesley Brooks, BA
Health Program Administrator, Coordinator of Project Respect 2, Denver CO.

Mary Kamb, MD, MPH
Medical Epidemiologist, Prevention Services Research Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention / Surveillance & Epidemiology, Atlanta GA.

Erica Monasterio, MSN, FNP
Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco CA

Michael Policar, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Partnership Health Plan, Suisun City, California; Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco CA

This conference has been made possible through funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an unrestricted educational grant from JSI Research and Training Institute.

The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine designates this activity for a maximum of 2 hours in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Counsel for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the University of Cincinnati and the National Network of STD/HIV PTC. The University of Cincinnati is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing education for physicians.

The Denver STD/HIV Prevention Training Center is approved as a provider of continuing nurses education by the Colorado Nurses Association, which is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.