Adolescent vaccine visits serve as a "teachable moment" for health care providers to offer guidance about safe sex and other risky behaviors but, too often, the opportunity is missed. In this video series, the expert faculty explores common pitfalls of the three adolescent immunization platforms in early, middle, and late adolescence and offers practical strategies for communicating more effectively with young people and their parents to ensure completion of the full adolescent immunization schedule recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Educational Objectives:
After completing this 3-part educational activity, participants should be better able to:
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Implement communication techniques and strategies directed at adolescent patients and their parents that reinforce the importance of prophylaxis against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and other vaccine-preventable diseases
- Illustrate the HPV vaccine visit as an opportunity for health care providers to offer guidance about sexual health, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and other health-risk behaviors
- Describe data regarding HPV-related disease and prevention among males
- Identify barriers to implementing the full adolescent immunization schedule, and interventions to increase vaccine uptake, particularly in older adolescents for whom there are gaps in wellness care
- Establish a multidisciplinary action plan to ensure optimal care for adolescent patients by complementing routine immunization with recommendations for prevention of HPV and other STIs
PROGRAM CHAIR
Amy B. Middleman, MD, MSEd,
MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Immunization
Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Awareness & Research
Houston, TX
PROGRAM FACULTY
Kenneth Alexander, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Alison Moriarty Daley, MSN, APRN, PNP-BC
Associate Professor
Yale University School of Nursing
New Haven, CT
CME COURSE DIRECTOR
Colin Marchant, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Boston University School of Medicine
This program is jointly sponsored by Boston University School of Medicine and Haymarket Medical Education.
If you have any questions relating to the accreditation of this activity, please contact
Julie White, Administrative Director, Boston University School of Medicine/CME, at 617-638-4605 or
cme@bu.edu.
This video was made in cooperation with the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (
www.adolescenthealth.org).
This program is supported by an educational grant from Merck & Co., Inc