JCCSI - Jefferson Comprehensive Care System Inc.

A Message from the Program Coordinator
Derrick Newby, MPA

Part F

BACKGROUND

Welcome to the Delta Region AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) local provider page for Arkansas. The AETC conducts targeted, multidisciplinary education and training programs for health care providers treating persons living with HIV/AIDS. This website provides a central inquiry point for AETC programs and contact information and for training materials developed within the AETC network. The Arkansas LPS for AETC has been housed at Jefferson Comprehensive Care Systems since 1998. The projects originally provided education to physicians and nurses who served HIV-infected patients. The program has expanded over the past ten 10 years and now provides education to supportive staff. The AETC also addresses needs in special population including Native Americans and Minorities. The AETC is also funded by CDC to provide capacity building training to hospitals and rural clinics to expand rapid testing for HIV.

The AETC was originally a part of a nationwide network of 16 AIDS Education and Training Centers founded in 1988 and funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program of the Ryan White CARE Act currently supports a network of 11 regional centers (and more than 130 local performance sites) that conduct targeted, multi-disciplinary education and training programs for healthcare providers treating persons with HIV/AIDS. The AETCs serve all 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the six U.S.-affiliated Pacific Jurisdictions.

MISSION

The mission of the AETCs is to improve the quality of life of patients living with HIV/AIDS through the provision of high quality professional education and training.

PROGRAM GOALS

Training is targeted to providers who serve minority populations, the homeless, rural communities, incarcerated persons, community and migrant health centers, and Ryan White CARE Act-funded sites. AETCs focus on training a diverse group of clinicians including physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, nurses, oral health professionals, and pharmacists. Training activities are based upon assessed local needs. Emphasis is placed on interactive, hands-on training and clinical consultation to assist providers with complex issues related to the management of highly active antiretroviral therapy. AETCs collaborate with CARE Act-funded organizations, area health education centers, community-based HIV/AIDS organizations, and medical and health professional organizations. Since 1991, the AETC program has sponsored more than 700,000 training interactions for providers. Clinicians trained by AETCs have been shown to be more competent with regard to HIV issues and more willing to treat persons living with HIV than other primary care providers.

Training Levels

The AETC training levels range from lectures to clinical consultations and programmatic technical assistance. This section provides background information, resources, and examples of activities under each of the five levels of training. Descriptions of the levels are from the Pacific AETC.

Level 1: Didactic Presentations

Primarily didactic presentations, but can also include: panel discussions, self-instructional materials, journal clubs, teleconferences, etc. Participants are often passive learners, with programs varying in length from brief lectures to conferences.

Level 2: Skills Building Workshops

Interactive and skills-building activities characterized by active trainee participation. These training activities may include interactive learning through discussion of cases supplied by trainer, role play, simulated patients, and train the trainer and other skill building activities.

Level 3: Clinical Training

Training that includes activities where the trainee is actively involved with actual clinical care experiences involving patients. These may include preceptorships, “mini-residencies,” or observation of clinical care at either the AETC training site or the trainee’s worksite.

Level 4: Clinical Consultation

Training that includes patient-specific clinical consultation provided to health care professionals. Characteristics of this level of training are: 1) interaction between two clinicians, 2) training initiated by trainee/topic selected by trainee and based on a patient-specific clinical question, 3) discussion of state of the art clinical care, 4) communication via telephone, electronic media, or in person on-site at trainee location, 5) no direct contact between patient and trainer, 6) interaction supported financially or administratively by AETC funds. These training activities may include clinical consultation, case based discussion with cases supplied by trainee, or clinical consultation on-site at trainee’s clinical setting.

Level 5: Technical Assistance

Technical assistance offered by the local performance site.

STAFF
Program Coordinator - Derrick Newby, MPA (dnewby@jccsinc.org)
Principal Investigator - Estelita Quimosing, MD (equimosing@jccsinc.org)
Data Manager - Shari Joyner-Robbins (srobbins@jccsinc.org)
Nurse Educator - Stephanie Hobbs, RN (shobbs@jccsinc.org)
Faculty - Robert Bradsher, MD (BradsherRobertW@uams.edu)
Faculty - Michael Saccente, MD Lockett (SaccenteMichael@uams.edu)
Faculty - Jon Allen, PA (AllenJonK@uams.edu)
Faculty - Marah Lacerna, MD (lacernamd@gmail.com)
Faculty - Margaret Washington, APN (margaret2washington@yahoo.com)
CQI Coordinator - Angela Smith, PhD (agsmith1@sbcglobal.net)
Administrative Assistant - Carol Jackson (carol_jackson07@yahoo.com)

For further information on the Delta Region AIDS Education Training Center visit:
www.deltaaetc.org