Every item in the online CME survey must be completed and submitted online by June 30, 2010 in order for continuing education credit to be granted. There is no fee for continuing education credit.

Recording Date

This video was originally recorded on January 29, 2009.

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Statement of Need
Community-based primary care providers need the most-up-to date clinical education to effectively diagnose, treat, and medically manage HIV-infected patients. In addition, new calls by the federal government to make HIV testing routine for all patients between the ages of 13-64 in primary care settings, requires that health care providers are adequately trained on the latest science of HIV testing, referral and initial management, and have access to appropriate resources. The web video series is designed to enhance the ability of this audience to detect HIV infection, deliver routine care to HIV positive individuals and refer to specialists for the diversity of patients (adolescents, adult women and men, the elderly) cared for in their settings.

Target Audience
Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives, Nurses, Dentists, Pharmacists, Mental Health Providers, and other Primary Care Clinicians.

Course Goals and Objectives
This continuing education activity is designed to enhance the ability of primary care providers to detect HIV infection, deliver routine care and to refer to specialists as appropriate for HIV positive adolescents and young adults.

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to:

1. Describe at least two youth populations at elevated risk for acquiring HIV/AIDS.
2. Discuss three key vulnerabilities that make youth particularly susceptible to HIV/AIDS.
3. Outline four recommendations for what to assess when starting HIV-positive youth on antiretroviral therapy.
4. List four of the leading HIV prevention options currently available to youth.

Accreditation-expired June 30, 2010
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 sponsorship of Albany Medical College and Columbia University.  Albany Medical College is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Albany Medical College designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should only claim credit that is commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Course Directors
Marshall Glesby, MD, PhD
Medical Director of NY/NJ AETC, Cornell Clinical Trials Unit
Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College

Douglas Fish, MD
Head, Division of HIV Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine
NY/NJ AETC LPS Medical Director
Albany Medical College

NY/NJ AETC Faculty
Donna Futterman, MD
Director, Adolescent AIDS Program
Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Einstein College of Medicine

Planning Committee:

Disclosures
Albany Medical College endorses the standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the guidelines of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) that the sponsors of continuing medical education activities, speakers, and planning committee members of these activities disclose significant relationships with commercial companies. Significant relationships include receiving from a commercial company research grants, consultancies, honoraria and travel, or other benefits or have a self-managed equity interest in a company.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Relationships exist with the following companies/organizations:

The following Faculty or Planning Committee Members have no financial relationships to disclose:  Marshall Glesby, MD, PhD, Jennifer Price, Sarah Walker, Kelly Rand, Melissa Laurie and Daria Boccher-Lattimore, DrPH 

Acknowledgements
This program is a collaborative initiative among the Division of HIV Medicine at Albany Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for the NY/NJ AIDS Education and Training Center.

Thank you to Abbott Laboratories, Inc. for providing an unrestricted educational grant.

If you have any questions, please contact

NY/NJ AETC
HIV Center,  Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
100 Haven Ave #31G
New York, NY 10032
nynjaetc@columbia.edu
212-304-5530

Additional Resources on Adolescents and HIV

Adolescent AIDS Program at Montefiore web site where you can request training, clinical consultations, and read reports
Treating Adolescents with HIV online skills building training modules

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