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Mission Statement

Our mission is to increase the number of health care providers who are effectively educated and motivated to prevent, diagnose, treat and manage HIV infection.

 


Target Audience

MATEC–Michigan’s target audience is:

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  • Physicians

  • Physician Assistants

  • Advanced Practice Nurses

  • Nurses

  • Dentists

  • Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists

  • Pharmacists

  • Other health care professionals

 

 

 

Clinical Consultation

MATEC Michigan provides health care professionals with timely and appropriate responses to clinical questions about the treatment and management of HIV infection. Individual clinical consultation with HIV experts is available in the following areas:

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  • Adherence

  • Antiretroviral therapy

  • Confidentiality, informed consent and other legal issues

  • Dental management

  • Drug interactions and side effects

  • Genotyping

  • Nursing interventions

  • Pediatric HIV/AIDS

  • Perinatal transmission

  • Resistance

 


 Intensive HIV Clinical Training

MATEC Michigan provides in-depth HIV clinical training to health care professionals. Courses include didactic and clinical components. Faculty for these intensive programs are recognized experts in HIV care.

 

The HIV Clinical Course for Physicians updates practicing physicians in Michigan about

  • current HIV epidemiology

  • manifestations of HIV disease and differential diagnosis

  • current DHHS treatment guidelines, including viral resistance testing, drug side effects, drug-drug interactions, when to start treatment, when to change treatment, when to stop treatment

  • co-morbidities associated with HIV disease

  • issues in adherence to treatment and strategies to improve adherence.

The HIV Clinical Course for Physicians is provided free of charge to Michigan physicians. CME credit is available to participants. The target audience for the course is all physicians licensed to practice in Michigan. 

Participants attend:

  • 1 day-long didactic session with Jonathan Cohn, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, Wayne State University School of Medicine

  • 2 days of clinical experience with a recognized HIV-expert physician.

 

 

The HIV Clinical Course for Nurses and Nurse Practitioners is designed to assist practicing nurses in acquiring and applying current knowledge and developing skills in caring for persons living with HIV disease.

The HIV Clinical Course for Nurses and Nurse Practitioners is provided free of charge to Michigan nurses. CEU credit is available to participants. The target audience for the course is all nurses licensed to practice in Michigan.

At the end of the program, participants are able to: doc

  • identify components of HIV risk assessment

  • identify current standards for use of HIV therapies

  • utilize nursing interventions for HIV symptomatology

  • discuss nursing interventions to enhance adherence to HIV treatment

  • discuss co-morbidities of hepatitis C, substance abuse, mental illness and HIV

Participants attend:

  • 1 day-long didactic session led by advanced practice nurse faculty

  • 1 or 2 days of optional clinical experience with a recognized HIV-expert nurse.

 

 

The HIV Clinical Course for Pharmacists is an interactive, hands-on course designed to help pharmacists acquire new knowledge about HIV disease and its management.

 

At the end of the program, participants are able to:
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  • identify components of preferred regimens for the treatment of HIV infection

  • discuss the management of key drug interactions and adverse drug reactions

  • describe how antiretroviral resistance emerges and how it can be avoided

  • identify common opportunistic infections and their treatment in HIV-positive persons.

 

The HIV Clinical Course for Pharmacists is provided free of charge to Michigan pharmacists. Continuing education credit is available to participants. The target audience for the course is all pharmacists licensed to practice in Michigan.

Participants attend:

  • 1 day-long didactic session led by HIV-expert pharmacist faculty

  • 4 hours of optional clinical experience with a recognized HIV-expert pharmacist.

 

 

The HIV Clinical Course for Dental Professionals provides the latest knowledge on a wide variety of epidemiological, clinical, and therapeutic issues related to HIV and its co-occurring conditions in dental practice.


At the end of the course, participants are able to:

  • recognize common oral manifestations of HIV disease

  • discuss the latest trends in the management of oral complications of HIV/AIDS and its co-occurring conditions

  • know recommended post-exposure prophylaxis protocols and management

  • identify optimum strategies to prevent transmission of infectious diseases in the clinical setting.

The HIV Clinical Course for Dental Professionals is provided free of charge to Michigan dental professionals. Continuing education credit is available to participants. The target audience for the course is all dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants licensed to practice in Michigan.

Participants attend:

  • 1 day-long didactic session led by HIV-expert faculty from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry

  • 4 hours of optional clinical experience with a recognized HIV-expert dentist.

 

 

Longitudinal Training Programs

Committed to providing quality education to increase HIV awareness among health care professionals, MATEC Michigan offers comprehensive in-service programs to non-profit organizations at no cost. Most in-service programs are one hour in length and carry 1 CEU. All of our speakers are health professionals who actively work in the field. We offer HIV education programs on a wide range of topics, including:

  • Accessing Community Resources and Public Benefits for HIV-positive Clients

  • Adherence Issues in HIV Care

  • Adolescents and HIV

  • AIDS Dementia and Psychotropic Drugs

  • Alternative Lifestyles and HIV/AIDS

  • Cultural Competence in HIV/AIDS Care

  • Drug Interactions in the HIV-Positive Client

  • Ethical Issues and HIV/AIDS 

  • HIV and Hepatitis

  • HIV and Older Persons

  • HIV and Syphilis

  • HIV and the Law

  • HIV and Trauma 

  • HIV and Women

  • HIV/AIDS Update

  • HIV Basics

  • HIV Prevention in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities

  • HIV Prevention in the African American Community

  • HIV Prevention in the African-Born Community

  • HIV Prevention in the Arab American Community

  • HIV Prevention in the Hispanic/Latino Community

  • HIV Prevention in the Native American Community: In the Track of the Bear

  • HIV Prevention in the Native American Community: Walking in Two Worlds

  • HIV Prevention Strategies for Injecting Drug Users

  • HIV Prevention Strategies for Women

  • HIV, STDs and the Childbearing Woman

  • HIV/AIDS: Loss and the Continuum of Anticipatory Grief

  • HIV/AIDS and Pain

  • Issues in Rapid Testing

  • Medication Update: Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy

  • Nursing Management in HIV/AIDS Care

  • Partner Counseling and Referral Services

  • Perinatal HIV Update

  • Prevention with Positives

  • The Role of Alternative Therapies in HIV Care

  • Routine Testing for HIV Infection

  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

  • To Test or Not to Test

  • Triple Diagnosis: HIV, Mental Illness and Substance Abuse

  • Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

  • Value Clarification in HIV/AIDS Care

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