
BASHH STI / HIV Course
Introduction
The course covers both sexually transmitted infections (STI) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and is intended to provide in depth knowledge of STIs and their management.
It will help to improve knowledge and management to current national standards.
The course is highly recommended for those who intend to sit the Diploma in Genito-Urinary Medicine and Diploma in HIV Medicine exams.
It is a modular course. You can apply to attend some or all of the following modules.
- Module 1: Epidemiology of STIs and Bacterial Infections
- Module 2: Sexual health and sexuality
- Module 3: Viral Infections other than HIV
- Module 4: HIV Infections
Please note: Modules can be taken in any order.
Modules 1 and 2
Confirmed dates - Taking place 9th-13th May 2022
Format - Zoom
- Module 1: Epidemiology of STIs and Bacterial Infections (Monday 9th - Thursday 12th May)
- Module 2: Sexual Health and Sexuality Friday 13th May
Programme
Day 1 - Monday 9th May 2022
Module 1 - Epidemiology of STIs and Bacterial Infections
09:00 - Welcome and Introduction
09:15 - 10:15 - STI & HIV Surveillance and epidemiology (Alison Brown, UKHSA)
10:15 - 10:30 - Break
10:30 - 11:45 - Sexual Health Research for Evidence-Based Policy & Practice (Cath Mercer, Reader in Applied Statistics UCL Centre for Population Research in Sexual Health & HIV)
11:45 - 12:00 - Break
12:00 - 12:45 - Introduction to Public Health for the Sexual Health Physician (Dr Michael Brady, Consultant, Sexual Health & HIV King’s College Hospital, London)
12:45 - !3:30 - Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 - Re-engaging PLWHIV who are lost to follow-up: public health and epidemiology considerations (Dr Kate Childs, Consultant, Sexual Health & HIV, King’s College Hospital, London)
14:15 - 14:30 - Break
14:30 - 15:15 - Online sexual health services: understanding and addressing health inequalities (Dr Paula Baraitser, Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Kings College Hospital, Medical Director, SH24 )
15:15 - Evaluation and Close
Day 2 - Tuesday 10th May 2022
Module 1 - Epidemiology of STIs and Bacterial Infections
09:15 - Welcome (BASHH/Dr Ria Daly)
09:30 - 10:30 - Microbiology of Gonorrhoea (Dr Helen Fifer Blood Safety, Hepatitis, STI & HIV Division, UK Health Security Agency University Hospitals Birmingham)
10:30 - 10:45 - Break
10:45 - 11:30 - Clinical Aspects and Complications of Gonorrhoea (Dr Jackie Sherrard, Wycombe Hospital, Bucks)
11:30 - 11:45 - Break
11:45 - 12:30 - Treatment of Gonorrhoea and case studies (Dr Jackie Sherrard, Wycombe Hospital, Bucks)
12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 - Tropical genital ulcer disease (Dr Nadia Ahmed, Central and Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust)
14:30 - 14:45 - Break
14:45 - 15:30 - Lymphogranuloma Venereum (Dr Ria Daly, University Hospitals Birmingham)
15:30 - Close (Dr Ria Daly, University Hospitals Birmingham)
Day 3 - Wednesday 11th May 2022
Module 1 - Epidemiology of STIs and Bacterial Infections
08:55 - Welcome (Dr Suneeta Soni, Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV, University Hospitals Sussex)
09:00 - Chlamydia natural history, diagnostics and the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (Dr John Saunders, Deputy Head of Programme Delivery and Service Improvement, UKHSA)
09:45 - Break
09:55 - Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) and cervicitis (Dr Megan Crofts, Consultant in Sexual Health Unity Sexual Health, Bristol)
10:40 - Break
10:50 - Complications of NGU and the chronic pelvic pain syndrome, epididymo-orchitis and sexually acquired reactive arthritis (Dr Megan Crofts, Consultant in Sexual Health Unity Sexual Health, Bristol)
11:35 - Break
11:45 -Mycoplasma genitalium (Dr Suneeta Soni, Consultant in Sexual Health Claude Nicol Centre, Brighton)
12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - Pelvic inflammatory disease (Dr Gillian Dean, Consultant in Sexual Health Claude Nicol Centre, Brighton)
14:15 - Break
14:25 - Vaginal discharge - bacterial vaginosis (Dr Janet Wilson)
Day 4 - Thursday 12th May 2022 TBC
Module 1 - Epidemiology of STIs and Bacterial Infections
09:00 - 10:00 - Clinical Aspects of Syphilis (Dr Achyuta Nori)
10:00 - 11:00 - Syphilis: Laboratory Aspects Including CSF (Dr Benny Cherian)
11:00 - 11:15 - Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00 - Management of Syphilis including reactions to treatment (De Achyuta Nori)
12:00 - 12:45 - Outcome of untreated syphilis and clinical interpretations of treponemal serology (Dr Vanessa Apea)
12:45 - 13:45 - Lunch
13:45 - 15:00 - Management Issues Case Presentations (Dr Gary Whitlock)
15:00 - Close
Day 5 - Friday 13th May 2022
Module 2 -Sexual Health and Sexuality
09:00 - Welcome (Dr Ngozi Dufty, University Hospitals Birmingham)
09:15 - 10:00 - Sexual problems in cis men (Dr Ali Mears, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust)
10:00 - 10:15 - Break
10:15 - 11:00 - Sexual problems in cis women (Dr Ali Mears, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust)
11:00 - 11:15 - Break
11:15 - 12:00 - Sexual Health in Trans/Non-binary people (Dr Laura Mitchell, University Hospitals Plymouth)
12:00 - 12:45 - Lunch
12:45 - 13:30 -Sexual Health in Sex Workers/Outreach work (Michelle Pearson, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust)
13:30 - 13:45 - Break
13:45 - 14:30 - Sexual Assault (Dr Susanne Reichenbach, The Havens SARC)
14:30 - 14:45 - Break
14:45 - 15:30 - STIs in Children and Young People (Dr Rachel Caswell, University Hospitals Birmingham)
15:30 - Close Dr Ngozi Dufty
Further details will be published as soon as they are available. Register HERE
Modules 3 and 4
The above modules last ran virtually in November 2021.
- Module 3: Viral Infections other than HIV
- Programme
- Monday 1st November
- Tuesday 2nd November
- Module 4: HIV Infection
- Programme
- Wednesday 3rd November
- Thursday 4th November
Friday 5th November
Next course?
Provisional dates - likely to take place the first week of November 2022
Format - TBC
Further details will be published as soon as they are available.