Document 0978
 DOCN  M94A0978
 TI    A meta-T cell approach: training medical students and residents in
       outpatient HIV care.
 DT    9412
 AU    Gurfolino V; Tanur M; Bennett T; Bonnano J; Calame C; Perryman S; Martin
       G; Trinity Hospice of Greater Boston, Brookline, MA 02146.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(2):237 (abstract no. PB0960). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94371597
 AB    Medical students and residents have clinical exposure to ill or
       hospitalized patients with AIDS. Most primary care training overlooks or
       neglects the ongoing partnership of patients with HIV and their health
       providers. Similarly, nurse and physician managed hospice care (at home)
       remains uncharted territory for most new American physicians. Holistic
       therapies like accupuncture, polarity, chiropractic, and Chinese herbal
       care also often rank as unfamiliar to many allopathic providers. Derived
       from our hospice and neighborhood health center environs, we created a
       wide ranging and flexible syllabus of holistic medical and psychosocial
       outpatient HIV care. This syllabus complemented participatory
       observation and humanisitic preceptorship of the 'trainees' in a variety
       of settings. We administered pre and post test questionnaires to
       evaluate the efficacy of such dynamic learning. Further, we hope that
       HIV+ patients will be integral in our students' 'feedback loops.' Based
       on educational successes in New York City (poster presentations-Berlin
       '93), we expect that the HIV+ patients will evolve into the key and
       premier preceptors in this inovational, pedagogical endeavor.
 DE    *Ambulatory Care  *Education, Medical  Holistic Health  Human  HIV
       Infections/*THERAPY  *Internship and Residency  MEETING ABSTRACT

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