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Clinical Essentials for HIV, HCV, and Syphilis: A Great Plains Provider Series


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This learning path will enhance novice and experienced clinicians’ ability to provide comprehensive care to patients and decrease patient referrals for HIV, HCV, and Syphilis.

About this Independent Study   

This activity was originally released on September 5, 2025 and is available for continuing education credit until September 4, 2027.     

This three-part eLearning series is designed for clinical staff — including physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses, and licensed vocational/practical nurses — who serve American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people in the Great Plains Area.

The modules offer both clinical knowledge and culturally grounded context to strengthen care delivery, while honoring the sovereignty, resilience, and health priorities of Indigenous communities. Learners will gain practical skills and deeper understanding to support respectful, effective, and equity-focused care for HIV, HCV, and syphilis.

Modules:

  1. Clinical Essentials for HIV
  2. Clinical Essentials for HCV
  3. Clinical Essentials for Syphilis

Who Should Take This Course

Clinical and community health staff, including physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists, advanced practice nurses, RNs, and LVN/LPNs who serve AI/AN people.

Learning Objectives

By the end of these modules, learners will be able to:

  • Center Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination in clinical and community health decision-making, understanding how history and policy shape today’s health systems and services.
  • Recognize the strength and resilience of AI/AN communities in addressing HIV, HCV, and syphilis, even amidst systemic and historical challenges.
  • Apply current clinical guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, while integrating culturally grounded practices.
  • Strengthen partnerships between clinical providers, public health programs, and communities, building trust through listening, accountability, and shared responsibility.
  • Address stigma and inequities that impact prevention, screening, and treatment, with strategies informed by Indigenous knowledge and experience.

To Enroll

Select the radio button under the continuing education type that you need, then select the Enroll button above it. These buttons are at the right of the computer screen.

If you need to change your selection, unenroll from one course and enroll in the correct one.

Continuing Education 

Continuing Nursing Education (CNE)

Cardea Services is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Upon successful completion of each activity below:

  1. Clinical Essentials for HIV 1.0 contact hours will be awarded
  2. Clinical Essentials for HCV 1.0 contact hours will be awarded
  3. Clinical Essentials for Syphilis 1.0 contact hours will be awarded

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the California Medical Association (CMA) through the joint providership of Cardea and Raven Collective. Cardea is accredited by the CMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Cardea designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  

  1. Clinical Essentials for HIV 1.0 contact hours will be awarded
  2. Clinical Essentials for HCV 1.0 contact hours will be awarded
  3. Clinical Essentials for Syphilis 1.0 contact hours will be awarded

Successful completion of this continuing education activity includes the following

  • Attending the entire CE activity
  • Completing the online evaluation
  • Submitting an online CE Request

Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE)

Washington State Pharmacy Association logoThe Washington State Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.​​

  1. Clinical Essentials for HIV: ACPE UAN# 0130-9999-25-479-H01-P |  1.0 ACPE CPE hrs. | Activity Type: Knowledge
  2. Clinical Essentials for HCV: ACPE UAN# 0130-9999-25-478-H01-P |  1.0 ACPE CPE hrs. | Activity Type: Knowledge
  3. Clinical Essentials for Syphilis: ACPE UAN# 0130-9999-25-480-H01-P |  1.0 ACPE CPE hrs. | Activity Type: Knowledge

    Registration & Fees

    The eLearning course is free of charge. 

    Disclosures

    Jorge Mera, MD, author of the course content, has received one grant for Cherokee Nation from Gilead Sciences, Abbvie, Abbott Diagnostics, and Cepheid. Dr. Jorge Mera has also received a fee for service for being on a speakers bureau from Abbvie.   

    The relevant financial relationship(s) listed for this individual have been mitigated.  

    None of the other planners or speakers for this educational activity have relevant relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

    Acknowledgements

    Raven Collective gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Jorge Mera and Melanie Taylor.

    Here is the course outline:

    1. Introduction

    2. Clinical Essentials for HIV

    This independent study contains information that primary care clinicians can use in their practice to provide comprehensive HIV services: screening and testing, diagnosis, treatment and linkage to care. Preventive biomedical interventions, PEP and PrEP, are covered as well. 1.0 credit

    3. Clinical Essentials for HCV

    This course will enhance novice and experienced clinicians’ ability to provide comprehensive care to patients with HCV and decrease patient referrals. The course will also include best practices in policy and informatics to mitigate or solve organization and system issues. 1.0 credit

    4. Clinical Essentials for Syphilis

    Lab interpretation, history-taking and clinical staging of syphilis can be complicated and nuanced. This independent study covers history-taking, lab interpretation, staging, treatment and prevention. Collaboration with partner services and linkage to care services is also included. 1.0 credit
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