Course List
The STD Prevention Training Center at Johns Hopkins offers affordable clinical training for healthcare providers in the public and private sectors who offer reproductive and sexual health services.
We offer a variety of courses, including, STI intensive courses, Brightfield and Darkfield microscopy, specialized topics, and more. We can also bring trainings directly to providers in our service area when need and demand merits as well as design specialized training to address emerging needs. You can download a course brochure or browse our course list below.
Multi-Day Courses—STIs
This course is open to clinicians offering STI services. The five-day course includes: one day of experiential training in laboratory techniques; one clinical day with a preceptor; and hands-on training in a directed sexual/reproductive health examination by genital teaching associates.
This course is open to clinicians offering STI services. The three-day course includes didactic presentations on various STI, HIV and emerging topics.
This course is open to clinicians offering STI services with a preference for rural providers only. The three-day course includes didactic presentations on various STI, HIV and emerging topics.
This course, offered to all staff who work in a healthcare setting that see patients with an STI in various settings, has didactic as well as discussion with participants.
The target audience is nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, physician assistants, social workers, outreach workers, health aides, DIS, health educators, clerical and administration.
Laboratory Courses
This one-day course is offered to clinicians to assist them in identifying wet mounts (BV, candidiasis and trichomonas) under a microscope correctly. This is for providers that are currently doing this in their clinical setting.
Class size is limited to 10 participants.
Open to clinicians, medical technicians and others who are responsible for performing Darkfield Microscopy. Participants will be required to accurately identify Treponema pallidum under a dark field using accepted microscopy techniques. This is for providers that are currently doing this in their clinical setting.
Class size is limited to 10 participants.
This course reviews the rationale for and methods of extragenital screening for gonorrhea and chlamydia by provider as well as by patient. This is an in-person course with a hands-on component.
STIs and HIV—One Day or Less
Offers training in clinical care, medical management and diagnosis, behavioral techniques and partner management activities to clinical health care providers, utilizing didactic methods, presenting the most current information, and implementing research findings regarding STIs.
This update on STIs and HIV for healthcare workers can be a 1 or 1.5 hour program. Topics available:
- STI Update
- Syphilis Update
- GC/CT Update
- Sexual Health Assessment
- Hepatitis
- Taking a Sexual History
- STI Treatment Guidelines Update
This 1.5 hour clinical training is focused on syphilis diagnosis, treatment, complications and pertinent populations including congenital syphilis. This training is intended to educate providers on updated guidelines and surveillance morbidity data, to provide the most recent evidence-based standard of care for management of syphilis.
This four-hour clinical training is focused on syphilis diagnosis, treatment, complications and pertinent populations including congenital syphilis. This training is intended to educate providers on updated guidelines and surveillance morbidity data, to provide the most recent evidence-based standard of care for management of syphilis.
This one-day conference will focus on the integration efforts that support a collaborative healthcare approach. Current medical updates in services for STIs, HIV, TB, hepatitis, family planning, and addictions will be discussed. Experts in the field will discuss what is new in that specialty.