The Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center at USC provides training programs for medical, dental, and other healthcare staff working in correctional facilities throughout our region. Providers and practitioners can come to USC and participate in our regularly scheduled clinical training programs. In some instances training can be provided on site at the correctional facility.

Training is available for providers, nurses, dental practitioners, correctional officers and other jail staff. Please call the Pacific AETC to arrange for training at USC or at your facility.

Halawa Correctional Institution, Oahu, Hawaii
Site of Pacific AETC dental training for prison dental practitioners

Nurses
The Pacific AETC provides on site training for the 500 nurses working with the incarcerated population at the L.A. County Jail. Faculty for this program are registered nurses or nurse practitioners who serve as faculty for the AETC at USC and who are actively providing care to HIV/AIDS patients at clinics serving large numbers of HIV infected patients.

Providers
Training for medical providers is available in our Clinical Training Program for Providers of HIV-Infected Patients at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. This is a four day intensive mini-residency clinical training program.

We also offer HIV/AIDS educational programs for providers presented onsite at L.A. County Jail.

Prisons

Dentistry
The Pacific AETC at USC presents training for dental practitioners working in corrections at the USC School of Dentistry in Los Angeles or onsite at prisons and jails throughout the four-state Pacific AETC region AETC, including California, Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii.

The AETC dental group has forged a new relationship with the California Department of Corrections. Through this new relationship, dentists who serve California’s prison population will receive special training in rendering care to inmates who have AIDS or HIV infection. As California’s prison population continues to grow, currently over 150,000 incarcerated, so too has the number of inmates who have AIDS. Prison inmates have a higher rate of incidence for AIDS/HIV than does the general population, and the first physical clues that an individual may have AIDS often are oral manifestations such as lesions and it is important their dentists are trained to recognize this.

In February, 2002, an all day clinical training program held at USC School of Dentistry was presented to the chief dental officers from California’s State Prisons. The February lectures and seminars will be followed by additional training and sessions held at state prisons.

In 2001 the USC dental group provided onsite clinical training for dental practitioners and clinic staff in Hawaii at Halawa Prison and at Oahu County Correctional Center.

In December of 2002 the USC dental group will present an all-day training to dentists from Arizona state prisons.

“We have been invited to train and educate dentists who serve incarcerated patient populations throughout the region. We really have a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness and improve the lives of what has long been an underserved segment of society,” said Abbe Barron, DMD, Assistant Director of Dental Clinical Training for the Pacific AETC.