Steinbock CM, Agins BD, Buck J, Garrett K; International Conference on AIDS (15th : 2004 : Bangkok, Thailand).
Int Conf AIDS. 2004 Jul 11-16; 15: abstract no. MoPeE4236.
New York State Department of Health - AIDS Institute, New York, United States
Issues: To continuously enhance the quality of life of people living with HIV, providers are obliged to improve HIV care. Increasing emphasis on quality improvement (QI) has also accompanied the rapid scale-up of care and support services to demonstrate appropriateness of care, thereby increasing the need for training of healthcare providers about QI. The New York State Department of Health has embraced the peer learning concept in working with HIV programs since 1998. Routine workshops have been convened to teach participating sites about principles and methodologies of QI and to provide a forum for HIV providers to share successful interventions. In response to the success of the peer learning concept, a curriculum was developed to transcribe the workshops into a written guide for facilitators to conduct group exercises on quality improvement. Description: The HIVQUAL Group Learning Guide (GLG) includes interactive QI exercises for HIV health care providers to strengthen the quality program and to facilitate QI projects. The GLG offers more than 20 HIV-specific group exercises for QI in HIV programs, including case studies, quizzes, role-play, and evaluations of scenarios. Each exercise contains facilitator notes, handouts for participants, answer keys, and presentation slides. This guide provides a clear roadmap and useful tools for making quality improvement a reality in HIV programs. Lessons Learned: The availability of HIV-specific group exercises has facilitated on-site availability of training opportunities for HIV providers. It provides a relative low-cost alternative to external trainings and allows HIV programs to individualize the staff training needs for quality improvement. Recommendation: Written facilitator guides with interactive exercises to train staff should be widely available, promoted and disseminated by governmental agencies to expand capacity for staff training about quality improvement.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Curriculum
- Education, Medical, Continuing
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Health Education
- Health Personnel
- Health Services Needs and Demand
- New York
- Patient Education as Topic
- education
- organization & administration
Other ID:
UI: 102280516
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