A Guide for Designing Student-Led, Interprofessional Community Education Initiatives About HIV Risk and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is room for innovation in medical education regarding HIV and modern biomedical preventive strategies such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Previously described undergraduate medical curricular modules address care for HIV patients but do not include PrEP. A graduate medical curriculum concerning HIV has also been described but misses the opportunity for early introduction of HIV risk prevention, an element of primary preventive care. The guiding framework described here provides one mechanism to begin addressing this gap and fosters interprofessional collaboration among students through community engagement.

Methods

We assembled a team of 11 first-year students (medical, physician assistant, podiatry, pharmacy, and health care psychology). The team col

SUBMITTER: Bunting SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6507924 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature