Integrating HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Education During Medical Residency: Training Outcomes and Suggestions for Learning Effectiveness.

ABSTRACT: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is now preventable with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs, however, barriers to PrEP implementation include primary-care physician (PCP) knowledge-gap and lack of comfort prescribing and managing PrEP. We hypothesized that integrating HIV-PrEP education during medical-residency would help address these problems and developed a 40-minute case-based lecture focused on the 2021 United States Preventative Services Taskforce (USPSTF) oral HIV-PrEP guidelines and integrated this into our residency's core curriculum. We analyzed data from physician-trainees who voluntarily completed a pre- and post-lecture survey measuring HIV-PrEP "knowledge" and "self-assessed readiness to independently initiate and manage PrEP." Independent group analysis was co

SUBMITTER: Ogundare MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10631327 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature