Training/ workshop details
YRG CARE Fellowship in HIV Medicine
A Professional "Hands on" HIV Disease Management Training for
Physicians
BACKGROUND:
Y R Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE),
Chennai in partnership with The Fenway Institute of Fenway Community
Health, Boston, USA invites applications from interested physicians
in Southern India for a fellowship program in HIV medicine organized
with support from The Pfizer Foundation. The program will be
conducted at YRG CARE, which offers medical and psychosocial care for
over 10,000 persons living with HIV.
OBJECTIVES:
The broad objective of this training program is Continuing Medical
Education (CME) and formal training, which is essential to stay up-to-
date on clinical management of HIV disease. The fellowship also
includes an ongoing, online strengthening of the technical and
research capabilities of the fellows as the management of HIV disease
is changing at a rapid pace.
TRAINING METHOD:
o Every day clinical rotations with hands on training.
o Every day rotations that offer the trainee requisite experience in
diagnosis and counseling issues.
o Regular technical sessions, which include lectures, case
discussions and research methodology.
CURRICULUM:
The curriculum comprehensively includes the following topics:
o Epidemiology of HIV.
o Basic science of HIV.
o Natural history and pathogenesis of HIV.
o Laboratory diagnosis of HIV.
o Opportunistic Infections (OI's).
o Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART).
o Prevention of Parent to Child HIV Transmission (PPTCT).
o Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP).
o Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and its lab diagnosis.
DURATION:
Onsite Training:
3 months hands on training at the YRG CARE facilities in Chennai and
Nellore.
Thesis Submission:
Additional 3 months will be allowed after completion of the hands on
training to submit their thesis.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Batch 1: January – March 2007
Batch 2: May – July 2007
No. of Participants Per Batch: 9
SPECIAL FEATURES:
o Access to the state-of-the art US-NIH funded clinical and research
laboratory to learn methodologies used for HIV related diagnosis.
o Learning opportunity in various HIV related counseling
(psychosocial, family, nutritional, treatment literacy, etc).
o Mentoring by local and international faculty/specialists.
o Participation in CME meetings and in-house clinical research
meetings.
o Education on research methodology and thesis submission by three
months after the onsite training.
o Online mentoring support:
§ Enables fellows to stay in touch after the fellowship training.
Learning§ portal for delivering online education on current HIV
management issues.
ELIGIBILITY:
o MBBS or Post-graduate degree in Medicine.
o Fluency in English.
o A lasting commitment to HIV/AIDS disease management.
o Presently residing in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,
Kerala, Pondicherry or Maharashtra.
SELECTION PROCEDURE:
30 short-listed candidates will be invited for a 3-day orientation
workshop followed by personal interview and preceptor assessments. 9
candidates with top scores will be offered this fellowship.
SCHOLARSHIP:
o Travel, lodging and living expenses scholarship will be awarded to
the short-listed candidates during the 3days orientation workshop.
o A comprehensive scholarship of Rs. 60,000 will be awarded to the
candidate fellows to cover lodge, board and living expenses during
the fellowship program.
COURSE DIRECTORS AND FACULTY:
Course Directors:
Prof. Suniti Solomon, MD, YRG CARE, Chennai
Prof. SP Thyagarajan, PhD, DSc, YRG CARE, Chennai
Prof. Kenneth H Mayer, MD, Brown University, USA
About 55 highly qualified resource faculties from well renowned
national and international universities/institutes will be involved
in the fellowship program.
Faculty Affiliation:
National:
YRG CARE, Chennai
Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai
Ragas Dental College & Hospital, Chennai
Cancer Institute, Chennai
TRC, Chennai
GHTM, Chennai
MMC, Chennai
MMM, Chennai
Lifeline Hospitals, Chennai
SAHAI, Chennai
CMC, Vellore
NARI, Pune
Asha Kirana, Mysore
APAC-VHS, Chennai
TAI, Chennai
International:
The Fenway Institute, USA
Brown University, USA
Johns Hopkins University, USA
UC Davis, USA
Rush University, USA
CDC, USA
Stanford University, USA
Health Protection Scotland, UK
Burnet Institute, Australia
APPLY TO:
The Project Manager,
YRG CARE, VHS Hospital Campus,
Tidel Park Road, Taramani, Chennai – 600 113.
E-mail: ganesh@yrgcare.org
Application form can be downloaded from
http://www.yrgcare.org/fellowshipform.htm
For more details, visit our web site www.yrgcare.org
Y R Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE)
Voluntary Health Services Hospital Campus, Tidel Park Road, Taramani,
Chennai – 600 113.
Phone: +91 44 2254 2929, Fax: +91 44 2254 2939,
Mail: info@yrgcare.org
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