AIDS Education & Training Center (AETC) CAI offers other programs related to HIV/AIDS. Targeted Audiences: Health professionals directly involved in HIV/AIDS Treatment: physicians physician assistants nurses nurse practitioners dentists dental hygienists mental health professionals midwives Health care support service personnel: HIV educators case managers social workers substance abuse counselors administrators other allied health professionals Staff of Ryan White CARE Act supported programs and HRSA supported facilities: community and migrant health centers health care for the homeless maternal & child health facilities family planning facilities ***Especially those serving underserved, remote, minority or incarcerated populations. Since 1988, CAI has been a Local Performance Site (LPS) for the Ryan White CARE Act’s AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) under the New York/New Jersey AETC program coordinated by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The National AETC Program supports 14 regional centers that conduct clinical HIV education and training programs for health care providers. The purpose of the AETC program is to improve the care of people living with HIV/AIDS by supporting state-of-the-art clinical consultation, education, and training for clinicians serving this population. Specifically, the program targets providers serving minority populations, the homeless, rural communities, incarcerated persons, and Ryan White CARE Act-funded sites, as well as primary health care clinicians such as physicians, physician assistants, advance practice nurses, nurses, dentists, and pharmacists. Training is also available for health service support personnel to sustain consistent counseling and treatment adherence. As a local LPS for the NY/NJ AETC, CAI is capable of designing training programs tailored to an individual institution or organization's needs and to the needs of the geographic region it serves. Faculty & Approach CAI is known for its dynamic, interactive, competency based and skills building training programs. Within the AETC program, CAI delivers didactic, skills building, clinical training and preceptorships, clinical guidance, and case conferencing, as well as technical assistance activities. The faculty is made up of experts in HIV care and patient management from leading medical centers, universities, community health centers, and community-based organizations. Courses available include a comprehensive catalog of topics that range from the latest information of HIV care, management, treatment, psychosocial issues, and reimbursement issues to basic information for those just entering HIV practice. CAI trainers are dynamic, culturally diverse, front line experts from all disciplines: medical, nursing, dental, mental health, social work, and community organizing. Trainings Examples of training offerings include: Adherence Basic Science Clinic Management - Connecting to and Retaining in Care - Confidentiality - Cultural Competency for Clinical Staff Clinical Trials/Research Clinical Manifestations - Acute HIV Infection - Dermatologic Manifestations - Immune Reconstitution Syndrome - Malignancies - Medication Side-Effects - Metabolic Complications - Neurological Complications - Pulmonary Complications Co-Morbidities - Bacterial Infections - Cardiovascular Disease - Endocrine Disorders - Gastrointestinal Disorders/Pancreatitis - Hematologic Disorders - Hepatitis B/C - TB - STDs Complementary & Alternative Therapies Conference Updates HIV Testing - Names Reporting & Partner Notification - Rapid Testing - Routine Testing Implementation HIV Treatment - Advanced HIV Disease - Antiretroviral Therapies - Diagnostic Tests - Drug-Drug Interactions - Emerging Treatment Options - Prophylaxis & health Maintenance - Newly Diagnosed Patients - Resistance Testing - Salvage Therapy - Treatment Sequencing International Issues Legal/Ethical/Policy Issues Mental Health - Mental Health Screening - Triply-Diagnosed Nutrition Opportunistic Infections Oral Health - Dental Treatment - Identification/Management of Oral Lesions Pain Management Palliative & End of Life Care Pharmacology Working with Specific Populations - Adolescents - Children - Families - Gay/Bisexual/MSM - Homeless - Incarcerated/Parolees - Lesbian/Bisexual/WS - Local Epidemiology - People with Mental Illness - Older Adults - Racial/Ethnic Minorities - Recent Immigrants - Rural - Transgender - Women Post-Exposure Prophylaxis - Occupational Exposure - Non-Occupational Exposure Prevention Strategies - Harm Reduction - Prevention with Positives Psychosocial Issues - Domestic Violence - Health Literacy - Motivational Interviewing Reproductive Health - Perinatal Transmission Sexuality Issues - Taking a Sexual History Substance Use - Addiction Treatment - Buprenorphine - Crystal Meth - Smoking Cessation The above-listed topics are not exhaustive. If your agency needs training on a specific issue that is not listed above, please let us know as we can design programs to fit particular needs. Additionally, in collaboration with the partners in the NY/NJ AETC, custom programs can be developed to meet the unique needs of an agency, professional organization, or provider group. CAI is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credential Center’s Commission on Accreditation. CAI AETC Targeted Areas/Regions NYC Health and Hospital Corporation facilities citywide Greater New York Chapter of Association for Nurses in AIDS Care (GNY-ANAC) Village Care of New York See http://www.nynjaetc.org for further information. CAI AETC Collaborative Agencies Federally-funded Training Centers Consortium Contact For further information about HIV/AIDS training programs through the NY/NJ AETC, please contact Liz Solimine at (212) 594-7741, ext. 212 or e-mail ESolimine@cicatelli.org Cicatelli Associates Incorporated, 505 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1600, New York, NY  10018 phone: (212) 594-7741 / fax: (212) 629-3321 http://www.cicatelli.org If you experience problems browsing this page, please send e-mail to webmaster © Copyright 2004, Cicatelli Associates Inc. site map