Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center
The mission of the Pacific AIDS Education and
Training Center (Pacific AETC) is to provide health care professionals
with the knowledge and skills necessary to care for HIV-infected
patients and to increase the numbers of trained health care
professionals working with HIV-infected patients in the community.
The Pacific AETC is funded by the federal Ryan
White CARE Act to provide education and training to health care
providers on the front line of HIV clinical care in California, Arizona,
Nevada, and Hawaii. It is one of 15 regional AETCs that cover all 50
states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Headquartered at the
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the Pacific AETC
utilizes a decentralized training model, with multidisciplinary faculty
trainers at 17 performance sites.
The AETC offers educational programs for a wide
variety of health care professionals including physicians, nurses,
physician assistants, nurse practitioners, dentists, dental hygienists,
mental health providers, and others. Programs have been designed on the
following five levels according to the experience, knowledge, and needs
of trainees:
 Level I trainings activities are 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
form brief lectures to conferences.
Level II training activities are primarily
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 III training 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.
Level IV trainings consist of patient-specific
clinical consultation provided to health care professionals.
Characteristics of this level of training are:
1) interactions 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) interaction supported financially or administratively by AETC funds.
These trainings may include clinical consultation, cased-based
discussion with cases supplied by trainee, or clinical consultation
on-site at trainee's setting (formerly Level IIIC).
Level V activities include technical assistance
offered by the AETC Program.
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