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Date of Report:
10/2005
Source:
AETC National Multicultural Center
The National Minority AETC (NMAETC) is a collaborative network of clinicians, clinical faculty, and consultants who provide capacity-building support to healthcare professionals treating HIV in communities of color. Using Microsoft's Live Meeting® software, the NMAETC will launch a series of education programs on their newly-designed website, focusing on improving HIV treatment support systems and clinical infrastructures. This web-based educational approach aims to build the capacity of providers through convenient, informative sessions that offer instruction and HIV/AIDS expert guidance from a variety of organizations and clinical perspectives. These new time-saving, cost-effective programs will capture a larger cross-section of providers and offer an innovative way to incorporate the expertise of AETCs, local and state-funded health organizations, and other community-based organizations (CBOs).
Through these programs, healthcare providers will be able to participate in Level I and some Level III training from their Personal Computers (PCs) or equipped conference rooms in hospitals and clinics. The system supports spontaneous meetings with up to 13 computers, as well as scheduled Web-i-nar® sessions, in which participants pre-register to receive a toll-free telephone number and password to join the session. Participants can listen to presentations, and with a PC-compatible microphone, can pose questions to the presenter.
For Level III trainings (i.e., those in which the trainee is actively
involved with clinical care experiences involving patients), it is important
to offer didactic as well as interactive teaching methods. NMAETC will
utilize this new web-based technology and Howard University's Telehealth
Sciences & Advanced Technology Center (HUTSATC) platform to improve the delivery of TeleMedicine video teleconferencing systems in order to deliver patient observation and information gathering sessions. These components will present healthcare providers with an understanding of the most productive and culturally competent ways of interfacing with minority patients living with AIDS, as well as observing first hand new or unusual manifestations of the disease.
NMAETC's web-based capacity building incorporates a Microsoft Office® look and feel, which will provide a high comfort level for providers. All sessions will be announced and launched through the NMAETC website and through links with collaborative partners. Web-i-nar® sessions will be recorded and stored, so that participants can view sessions on demand.
The NMAETC anticipates making great strides in influencing the quality of healthcare through web-based capacity building and education and information dissemination, enhancing efforts to provide collaborative sessions with healthcare providers nationwide, while strengthening partnerships with key organizations offering compatible and complementary services.
For more information about NMAETC's web-based capacity building, please
contact David Luckett at
dlluckett@howard.edu
or (202) 865-8275.
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