Activity Overview
Target Audience
This activity is designed to enhance knowledge and clinical competence of physicians, pharmacists, and nurses in the care of HIV-infected patients.
Program Description
The HIV eJournal Club is an online event, live and archived, featuring discussion with an author of a recently published study. The articles will be selected by the moderator from a range of prestigious peer-reviewed journals. The current eJournal Club series focuses on the care and management of treatment-experienced patients. This activity will consist of reviews of three current articles, each of which will be monthly online.
HIV eJournal Club participants will be able to view each article and a brief summary of the key findings of the study. Participants may listen to the live event by streaming audio or telephone as the author and moderator review the article's key points and discuss its clinical implications. Each presentation is followed by a discussion, with questions taken from the audience by telephone or text messaging.
After the live sessions, the events are archived for one year. Participants who are unable to attend live sessions can read articles from previous months, listen to audio online, or download the audio file for mobile listening. After registering, participants can track their completion of live or archived activities and identify uncompleted activities for which they are eligible to obtain CME/CE credit.
Program Purpose
The purpose of this series of three activities is to enhance the knowledge and competence of members of the target audience in the treatment of antiretroviral experienced patients with resistant HIV.
Each 30–60-minute activity is intended to provide an expert review of the most current research related to the management of treatment-experienced patients with HIV, emphasizing the clinical implications of the research findings.
Educational Objectives for this HIV eJournal Club Series
On completion of all three activities, participants should be able to:- Describe the most current treatment strategies for management of antiretroviral-experienced patients and their relevance to improved patient care
- Define the relevance of current research to the clinical management of treatment experienced HIV-infected patients with resistance
- Apply recent findings to clinical care, including strategies for sequencing antiretrovirals to preserve treatment options
