Establishing a medical student-run opt-out HIV testing initiative in an urban emergency department: Description of a pilot program
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Since July 2012, a testing initiative implemented and staffed entirely by first and second year preclinical medical students has trained medical student volunteers to offer and perform OraQuick® rapid HIV-1/2 antibody tests (OrasureTechnologies, Inc., Bethlehem, PA) on an opt-out basis at a University hospital emergency department (ED) in the District of Columbia. This program is unique among current opt-out ED rapid HIV testing programs in the United States in that all logistics, staffing, and procurement of test kits are coordinated and operated solely by preclinical medical students (i.e, students in their first and second years of medical school). This paper will address the conception, development, and implementation of this pilot project. In addition, it will discuss several factors that were essential to its successful implementation and describe how key barriers were overcome.
Source: Georgetown Medical Review
DOI: 10.52504/001c.3403
Author: Michael Plankey
Institution: Georgetown University Medical Center
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2974110920