Quality contraceptive care is more than just knowing the facts about all available birth control methods. In order for clients to select methods and get what they want from their birth control, it is crucial to provide contraceptive counseling that helps people identify their preferences in the context of their lives, values, and beliefs. This webinar will review best practices in person-centered contraceptive counseling and offer practical tools for providers to employ in their clinical encounters.
Objectives
Demonstrate skillful, efficient, person-centered questioning for contraceptive care visits
Discuss reproductive desires with clients of any gender and sexual orientation
Identify 3 examples of plain language to explain characteristics of contraceptive methods
Demonstrate Affirm-Share-Ask cycles for person-centered communication
Since the first HPV vaccines were introduced in 2006, rates of cervical cancer and other HPV-related cancers have decreased in immunized populations. Family PACT will add HPV immunization as a benefit in July 2022 and will utilize guidelines developed by the CDC Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices (ACIP). This webinar will provide information about the effectiveness and safety of the HPV vaccine, review the current CDC recommendations for the use of the 9-valent HPV vaccine, and provide advice on how to have effective shared decision-making conversations with clients about being immunized. In addition, new Family PACT policies about coding and billing for HPV immunization services will be discussed. There will be ample time for your questions at the end of the presentation.
Learning Objectives:
• List 2 effective strategies for engaging with patients who have vaccine hesitancy
• Demonstrate a person-centered technique for providing a strong recommendation without coercion
• Describe the impact of HPV vaccination on the natural history of HPV
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Training STI Clinical Update Webinar – Neurosyphilis
STI Clinical Update Webinar – Neurosyphilis
Thursday, July 21, 2022, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM (PDT)
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) continues to see dramatic statewide increases in syphilis. Neurosyphilis, a syphilitic infection of the nervous system, poses a complex diagnostic and management challenge for providers caring for patients with syphilis. This webinar features Drs. Kathleen Jacobson, Chief of the CDPH Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Branch and Sue Tuddenham, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who will discuss the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of neurosyphilis.
Learning Objectives:
Review California and national epidemiology of neurosyphilis
Describe the pathophysiology of neurosyphilis
Delineate clinical diagnosis and management of patients with neurosyphilis
May 11, 2022
Over the last year, the Family PACT Program has added several new benefits. These include three new contraceptive methods, a diagnostic test for Mycoplasma genitalium, and modifications in STI treatments based on the 2021 CDC STI Treatment Guidelines. In this webinar, a description of the new benefits will be provided and the Family PACT policies that relate to their utilization will be discussed. There will be ample time to ask questions regarding these and other Family PACT benefits.
Learning Objectives:
Describe and explain the three new contraceptive methods and explain how to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each with Family PACT clients
List three circumstances when the use of the diagnostic test for Mycoplasma genitalium is clinically indicated
Describe four modifications in STI treatments based on the 2021 CDC STI Treatment Guidelines
Speakers:
Michael Policar, MD, MPH Professor Emeritus, UCSF Senior Medical Advisor, CAPTC and California OFP Clinical Fellow, NFPRHA
This webinar will focus on understanding the complex situation with herpes diagnostics—who to test, when to test, how to interpret tests, and how to obtain better tests. We will also discuss developments in new treatments and prevention methods and briefly touch on herpes counseling.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to discuss the limitations of currently available serologic diagnostic testing and how to optimize testing using a patient-centered approach.
Participants will understand the current landscape of new and current HSV therapeutics.
Participants will be able to state five key messages that should be included in counseling patients with a new or existing diagnosis of genital herpes.
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Training STI Expert Hour Webinar: Addressing Systemic Racism in Sexual Health Settings
STI Expert Hour Webinar: Addressing Systemic Racism in Sexual Health Settings
February 10, 2022
Presented by Leo Moore, MD, MSHPM
Social determinants of health grounded in racism may contribute to adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes. This webinar will discuss some of the systemic and individual-level influences on the sexual health care experience that can result in medical mistrust. We will also discuss opportunities and provide evidence-based recommendations to promote health equity in sexual health care for patients from communities of color.
Learning objectives
Describe two social determinants of health that may be affected by systemic racism.
Discuss at least one intervention that can be implemented to improve health equity in sexual health care settings.
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