COMMUNITY EDUCATION

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Community Education

NCAETC

The North Carolina AIDS Education and Training Center (NCAETC) is the local provider of AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) services for North Carolina.  The AETC program is a nation-wide network for regional HIV/AIDS center.  Since 1987, AETC program have been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB).  The 12 regional AETC are designed to meet the training and information needs of clinical HIV care providers.  The NCAETC is a sub-site of the Southeast AIDS Training and Education Center (SEATEC) at Emory University.  SEATEC has had a training center in North Carolina since 1988. 

We are dedicated to serving HIV care providers across North Carolina.  It is our goal to educate health care providers about HIV infection including prevention, diagnosis, training, treatment, and psychological issues.

We offer HIV clinical training based on the HIV information and technical assistance needs of North Carolina’s HIV care providers at the lowest cost to the learner.  Our priority professions for training include: Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists and Dentists.  In addition our priority care settings include Ryan White CARE funded-sites, organizations serving minority and rural patients, as well as community and migrant health centers.  Our services include:

  • Clinical Preceptorships:  Intensive clinical training opportunities for HIV clinicians, pharmacists and dentists, either onsite through visiting clinical preceptors or offsite at rotations in infectious disease clinics
  • Clinical Consultation:  One-on-one assistance with clinical decision-making for individual patients
  • Classroom-Based Learning:  Seminars, workshops, and conferences to develop clinical expertise
  • Technical Assistance:  with Program and staffing issues for organizations beginning or expanding HIV services.

In addition, we also train clinicians and community care providers on information regarding HIV and Hepatitis C co-infection. For more information about the North Carolina Aids Education & Training Center go to www.ncaetc.net .

NCAETC GRANT INFORMATION

North Carolina AIDS Education and Training Centers (NCAETC)

Principal Investigator:  Kate Whetten

In 1987, The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) initiated the AIDS Education and Training Centers to focus on the strategic goals set forth which include addressing the prevention of HIV infection it’s related illness and death, assuring treatment according to guidelines by teaching clinicians medical management and by providing patient specific treatment consultation that is consistent with Public Health Service Treatment guidance. 

The North Carolina AIDS Education and Training Center (NCAETC) is the local performance site of the Southeast AIDS Training and Education Center (SEATEC) out of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  Through consultation, clinic-based, workshops, conferences, and classroom-based instruction, the NCAETC will meet the following goals of this grant:

  • Refine and maintain a system of training products and processes to meet the current and emerging needs of providers delivering antiretroviral and other HIV-related medical treatment and primary care to minority, rural, incarcerated, and underserved patient populations.
  • Refine and maintain a system of clinical consultation and treatment decision-making support for regional physicians, midlevel clinicians, advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, and oral health professionals who provide HIV medical and dental management to minority, rural, incarcerated, and underserved patient populations.
  • Refine and maintain a system of training products and processes to meet the current and emerging needs of providers who serve migrant farm workers and are initiating or expanding HIV testing activities specifically in community health centers in North Carolina.
  • Refine and maintain a system of training products and processes to meet the current and emerging needs of providers who serve migrant farm workers and are initiating or expanding HIV testing activities specifically in community health centers in North Carolina.