Case 8: WB1432 - 17-year-old female presents for sports physical.
The National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CE Origination Date: 02/18/2009
CE Expiration Date: 02/18/2012
This web-based case series is designed for practicing clinicians who diagnose, treat and manage patients with, or at risk for, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The series includes case presentations of common STD-related syndromes with a guided, interactive process to evaluate each case, arrive at a diagnosis and provide recommended treatment. In addition, each case is designed to improve skills in assessing patient risk, communicating risk reduction techniques and managing partners.
Each case should take about one hour to complete. In order to receive credit/contact hours you must complete a posttest and evaluation. Continuing education is available free of charge.
To improve health care providers' ability to recognize, diagnose and treat STD.
Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be able to:
- Describe the signs and complications of the STD identified in this case study.
- Explain the prevalence and risk factors of the STD identified in this case study.
- Screen patients for chlamydia according to current guidelines
- Take a complete sexual history
- Differentiate diagnostic tests in terms of sensitivity and usefulness in different clinical situations.
- Use the treatment regimens currently recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Counsel patients about sexual risk reduction, infection and treatment issues.
- Discuss the options for partner management.
- List strategies to prevent recurrent infection.
This online training module is for licensed, practicing health care providers who see patients with or at risk for STD/HIV, including doctors, physician assistants, nurses, advance practice nurses.
Heidi Bauer, MD, MPH
Clinical Instructor, CA STD/HIV PTC, CA DOH STD Control Branch
Linda Creegan, FNP, MS
Clinical Instructor, CA STD/HIV PTC, CA DOH STD Control Branch
Gail Bolan, MD, Medical Director, California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center
Katy Farber, University of California at Berkeley
Rhonda Kropp, University of California at Berkeley
Teri Anderson, NP, Denver STD/HIV Prevention Training Center
Greg Mehlhaff, Coordinator, HIV PCRS Training, California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center
George Rutherford, MD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
Cathleen Walsh, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Medi-Cal Managed Care Chlamydia Quality Initiative Subcommittee
For CME: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this educational activity for a maximum of
1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
For CNE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This activity provides
1.25 contact hours.
For IACET CEU: The CDC has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC is authorized by IACET to offer 0.1 IACET CEU's for this program.
CDC, our planners, and our content experts wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters.
Presentations will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use.
There was no commercial support provided for this activity.
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