This half-day workshop will focus on providing access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for high-risk persons to keep them HIV negative-- the third point of the New York Governor’s Plan to End AIDS. Participants attending this workshop must have a basic understanding of the NYS DOH PrEP guidance.
Through didactic presentations and interactive discussion, attendees will explore (1) the role of the patient, provider and organization in PrEP services; (2) policy and procedure protocol within a clinic setting; and (3) common challenges and strategies in implementing PrEP services.
This workshop is primarily intended for New York State medical providers including physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, dentists, and pharmacists. Limited seating is available to non-clinicians who register as part of a health care team with a medical provider from their organization.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to
1. Discuss the role of the patient, provider, and organization in implementing PrEP services
2. Illustrate a PrEP policy and procedure protocol within a clinical setting
3. Identify common challenges and strategies in implementing PrEP services
Accreditation
Continuing Pharmacy Education
The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The “PrEP Implementation Workshop: Challenges and Solutions in Clinical Practice”, a knowledge-based live activity, ACPE #0044-9999-16-054-L02-P, will award 4.0 contact hours or 0.40 CEUs. of pharmacy education credit. No partial credit will be awarded.
Continuing Nurse Education
The University at Albany School of Public Health is an Approved Provider of continuing nurse education by the Northeast Multi-State Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
This offering is approved for 4.0 nursing contact hours.
Continuing Medical Education
The School of Public Health, University at Albany is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The School of Public Health, University at Albany designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Medical Society of the State of New York relies upon planners and faculty participants in its CME activities to provide educational information that is objective and free of bias. In this spirit and in accordance with the guidelines of MSSNY and the ACCME, all speakers and planners for CME activities must disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests whose products, devices or services may be discussed in the content of a CME activity , that might be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.
Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, ANP-BC: Speaker's Bureau (Gilead)
Other planners and faculty participants do not have any financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research or services may be discussed in these materials.
