On-Site Clinical Education & Consultation Program

Description:

The USC site has developed an intensive consultation program with the primary objective of improving the standard of care and improving the quality of HIV/AIDS care throughout clinics in Southern California. During this consultative training program, an AETC faculty contracts to spend a period of six weeks at an individual Ryan White and or other clinic serving minority patients. Special emphasis is given to selection of clinics for consultation training which serve the targeted populations as well as those which have not been able to regularly participate in HIV/AIDS continuing medical education or which have not had access to HIV/AIDS training opportunities.

During the consultation training held at the clinic site, the faculty/clinician completes HIV/AIDS educational needs assessment, conducts thorough patient chart review. In addition, the faculty/clinician sees patients at the clinic with practitioners and provides patient-specific HIV/AIDS training. A special feature of this training program also includes follow-up visits to clinics by the faculty/clinician six months after the initial consultation training for another defined time period. During this follow-up consultation, the faculty/clinician assesses the effectiveness of the consultation training and provide additional training to practitioners as needed.