HIV Theraputic Drug Monitoring Elective

Goals and Objectives:

1. To provide a structured experience for students to develop web-based content in the area of TDM.
2. To become familiar with the Health Sciences Library and the ECMC library.
3. To develop skills in conducting literature searches, identifying key medical journals meeting abstracts, and textbooks.
4. To learn to summarize primary literature in tables and figures.
5. To review HIV patients currently seen at ECMC with a focus on Hepatitis C and HIV co-infection.
6. Develop skills in the area of TDM and formulate a tutorial for the HIV pharmacotherapy network.
7. To assist with screening patients at ECMC and Children's hospital for TDM project.

Completion of the Clerkship

The clerkship will be complete when the student has provided:

1. an email with attachments of word and powerpoint files
2. a disk with the same files
3. hard copies of all primary references
4. print out of pertinent powerpoint presentations
5. completion of evaluation

Description of Activities

Purpose

To develop skills in case based, self-directed learning (and teaching); literature retrieval; critical assessment; medical writing and contribute to an innovative national program which integrates education, clinical care and research in HIV pharmacotherapy with a focus on TDM.

Overview

The general focus of the activities will be to help develop material for the HIV pharmacotherapy website (http://hiv.buffalo.edu) and provide clinical services in HIV Pharmacotherapy to the HIV Clinic at ECMC, the PACT Clinic at Children's Hospital of Buffalo, and other selected HIV sites in Buffalo.

• All projects will be focused on HIV, although many other non-HIV issues are presented and you can focus to some degree on your particular areas of interest.
• Some projects will "independent" and somewhat self-directed with periodic meetings to discuss issues/progress/problems.
• You will be given assigned patient cases each week to review and prepare to present to the preceptor and in a formal setting during Virology Conference and Therapeutic Drug monitoring conference.
• You will be assigned patients who will be coming into the Women's Clinic and HIV Hepatitis C co-infection Clinic. You will be expected to review the charts, prepare a pharmaceutical care consultation, discuss it with the preceptor and meet with the patient to discuss it. You will also screen these individuals for inclusion into our TDM project.