Family Practice: HIV: A Primary Care Update (Audio-Digest Foundation Family Practice Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 57)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Family Practice is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information which builds on the AAFP Core Educational Guidelines, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Alcoholism & Substance Abuse
Allergy & Immunology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Conditions of the Eye
Conditions of the Musculoskeletal System
Conditions of the Nervous System
Conditions of the Skin
Care of Adolescents & Older Adults
HIV Infection/AIDS
Human Behavior and Mental Health
Nutrition
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Occupational Medicine
Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
Rheumatology
Risk Management & Medical Liability
Sports and Recreational Medicine
Urgent and Emergent Care

The goal of this program is to improve screening for and management of HIV infection and sexually transmitted disease in HIV-infected individuals. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Incorporate routine HIV screening into health care maintenance.

2: Describe current and newer methods for reducing HIV transmission.

3: Counsel patients about when to start HIV treatment.

4: Review screening options for syphilis.

5: Select the best treatments of gonorrhea.