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  In STD/HIV prevention it is all about brief behavioral interventions these days. Brief interventions, particularly those using mass media, are the ones that have the greatest chance of being brought to scale, i.e., reaching significant number s of persons at risk at a cost that allows for sustainability in times of dwindling public health resources.  Training the STD clinical workforce is basically also a behavioral intervention for which the same principles apply. Brevity in this area is needed even more since STD clinicians are increasingly overburdened and cannot take the time to attend multiple-day courses.

 Case studies have always been a very popular and effective way of training and can easily be formatted into computer-based or online presentations that can be easily accessed by clinicians on computers at work or at home. With the “5-Minute Case Study” we hope to fill a need for brief training sessions that enhance STD clinical knowledge and hopefully lead to discussion among colleagues both in the clinical setting and online on STDPO.  We welcome feedback and questions as posts to this resource, or if you would rather provide your comments more privately, send an email to iscoe@dhha.org. We also very much welcome ideas or uploads of new case studies and we will be happy to assist you with preparing your own.

Case studies are comprised of two files; the first file is a PowerPoint file that contains the case study and includes a number of questions regarding the case.  The second file is a PDF that provides answers to the questions as well as the rationale for these answers.   You are free to use the slides in the PowerPoint file for educational purposes as long as credit is given to the author as specified on the last slide of the slide set.

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