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HIV Mini-Residencies & Application Information

Through the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education & Training Center, Albany Medical Center's AIDS Program (AMCAP) collaborates with the upstate academic medical centers in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo to provide HIV mini-residencies. 

To be eligible, you must be a citizen of the United States and be licensed in the state of
New York. 

For information about mini-residencies offered at each academic medical center, please click on a link below.

• Albany Medical Center- Albany
• Erie County Medical Center- Buffalo
• Strong Memorial Hospital- Rochester
• SUNY Upstate Medical University- Syracuse

These training opportunities are open to community and correctional health care providers in New York and New Jersey.  Applicants may have basic or advanced HIV experience, as individualized programs are designed to meet providers? knowledge and comfort levels related to treating HIV/AIDS.

Mini-residencies consist of:

1. Clinical evaluation and monitoring of asymptomatic HIV positive patients to include physical examination and laboratory findings
2. Clinical evaluation of symptomatic HIV positive patients to include treatment recommendations and referrals
3. Didactic lectures

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the training, the practitioner should be able to:

1. Discuss specialty care and treatment of HIV-infected persons.
2. Recognize the early signs and symptoms of HIV disease to improve early diagnosis of infected persons.
3. Understand the functioning of an HIV care team.

Curriculum: This intensive training program incorporates didactic and clinical sessions. The didactic portion includes lectures as well as self instruction in the form of assigned reading lists. Participants must submit a written evaluation commenting on their training experience, a course evaluation and case histories.  A certificate of completion is awarded upon completion of all requirements.