Exam Content Results And Scoring
Exam Content
The content evaluated on the HIV Pharmacist Credentialing Exam is organized by Domain and Task statements. More details can be found in the HIV Pharmacist Credentialing Exam Content Outline.
Results Processing
Exam results are processed as a group in one scoring session, approximately 4 weeks after each exam completion deadline. Examinees are notified of their result via email sent directly from the Academy. To ensure confidentiality, exam results will not be released via telephone or fax by either the Academy or the testing vendor. Early submission of completed exam materials has no bearing on the result notification schedule. Candidates who pass the exam receive a three-year Academy credential, valid starting January 1 of the year following testing activity.
Credentialed providers receive:
- A complimentary lapel pin is available upon request
- Credentialed status listing on the Referral Link care resource directory
Retesting
The Academy allows for one complimentary retake of the HIV Credentialing Exam if there is another testing period available during the same calendar year. Candidates who do not earn a passing score during the August/September testing period will be automatically re-registered, without charge, for the November/December testing period.
Candidates who only take the exam during the November/December testing period are not eligible for a complementary retake.
Result Interpretation
Passing Standard Determination
Scoring Errors
Continuing Nursing Education Notice
Advanced practice nurses, nurses, and other disciplines*: The number of contact hours to be awarded, including those that qualify for pharmacology CE for advanced practice nurses, is noted in each lesson.
Continuing Nursing Education at the University of Washington School of Nursing is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation .
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 7218.
*Other disciplines include : Disease intervention specialists, social workers, case managers, counselors, dietitians, and psychologists. Continuing education contact hours are awarded . Please contact your licensing agency should you have any questions about the acceptability of the certificate.
What People Are Saying
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– HS
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– VL
Great delivery and engaging. I could take an entire 8hr class of it. I was happy to know that I am already doing many of these things
– AG
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Attention Florida Pharmacists Renewing Their License For The First Time
Continuing Education Requirement | First Biennium Renewal
- If you are renewing your license for the first time AND your initial renewal occurs 12 months or more after initial licensure date you are required to complete 15 hours, including 2 hours of medication errors, 2 hours of controlled substances, and 1 hour in HIV/AIDS.
- If your initial renewal occurs less than 12 months from your initial licensure date you are required to complete 1 hour in HIV/AIDS, 2 hours of medication errors, and 2 hours of controlled substances.
Featureshiv Care: Continuing Medical Education And Consultation Needs Of Nurses Physicians And Pharmacists
This article explores the impact of provider characteristics on their HIV-related continuing medical education attendance, consultation needs, satisfaction with skills, and willingness to provide care. A total of 731 users of an HIV consultation were surveyed by mail . Significant differences in provider variables were found to be related to HIV experience and profession. Experienced providers reported more CE, more satisfaction with skills, lower consultation needs, more consultations sought, and more willingness to take new patients than other providers. Unwillingness was commonly explained by concerns over quality of care or staying up-to-date. Relative to physicians, nurses had more CE hours, were more dissatisfied with their skills, and had greater consultation needs. Although all providers had high consultation or CE needs in some areas, accessibility to such programs is particularly important for lowvolume providers.
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Current Continuing Medical Education/continuing Education Programs
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Enhance your clinical skills as you engage with patients in an objective and realistic interactive simulation. Treat patients, diagnose medical conditions, and prescribe medications. There are no limits to your choicesorder from thousands of labs, diagnoses, devices, and drugs using an intuitive patient chart-based interface.
Powerful metrics track your performance and provide instant expert feedback on your decisions. Upon completion, results will be presented, along with author commentary on each case.
Note: While an account is free to clinicians, a Medscape account is required to view the program.
CME/CEU: This activity is acceptable for up to 1.0 contact hour of CME or CE credits. Certification begins on 04/22/2022. Term of approval is for one year from this date . Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This web-based activity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Medscape Education is intended for:
- Primary care providers.
- Public health and preventive medicine specialists.
Faculty:Paul E. Sax, MD David Malebranche, MD, MPH Jason E. Farley, PhD, MPH, ANP-BC, AACRN, FAAN Ariel Watriss, MSN, NP-C Sampath Wijesinghe, DHSc, MS, MPAS, AAHIVS, PA-C
Tips For Viewing The Webinar
- No registration is required. The webinar may be viewed at any time.
- Refer to the list of abbreviations used in the training program.
- You must answer each assessment question before moving to the next question. You cannot go back and change an answer after moving to the next question.
- You will not receive your score immediately after completing the assessment. The Board will separately notify you of your score within several days and will send certificates of completion to pharmacists who pass and successfully complete the training program.
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Training For Furnishing Hiv Preexposure And Postexposure Prophylaxis
The Board of Pharmacy has created a free training webinar pharmacists may complete to independently initiate and furnish HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis, pursuant to California Code of Regulations, title 16, section 1747. Pharmacists who successfully complete the training also will receive 1.5 hours of continuing education credit.
The webinar is about 90 minutes in length, including a training presentation followed by an assessment section with 10 multiple-choice questions. In addition, the presenter has provided a list of abbreviations used in the webinar training program. Participants must view the entire 90-minute webinar and obtain a passing score on the assessment to receive a certificate of successful completion and CE credit.
Note: Please allow enough time to complete the entire training program in one session to receive credit for viewing the entire webinar. Because of technical limitations, credit cannot be given for viewing the entire 90-minute training program in multiple discrete sections.
Pursuant to CCR section 1747, participants must obtain a passing score of 70 percent or higher to receive a certificate of successful completion of the training program. Participants who do not obtain a passing score will not receive a certificate of completion nor CE credit.
Advanced Harm Reduction And Oat
Online Course + Virtual Workshop Note: The virtual workshop is a recorded version of the live course that was held on March 20, 2021 the workshop is CPDPP accredited for 7.50 CEUs. The Advanced Harm Reduction and OAT online course is CPDPP accredited for 6 CEUs.
Completion of the Online Course fulfills SCPP requirements. Registrants are not required to complete the virtual workshop.
Following completion of this training, pharmacists will be able to:
- Utilize the developed tools when a patient requests an exempted codeine product.
- Apply evidence to assess potential benefit of an exempted codeine product to a patient request.
- Evaluate the risk of providing an exempted codeine product to a patient.
- Communicate the benefit and risk of exempted codeine products to patients.
- Complete the documentation required for exempted codeine sales.
Online courseExempted Codeine Products is CPDPP accredited for 2 hours
Upon completion, you will print a statement of completion and meet the requirements to sell exempted codeine products.
Registration Fee: $25.00 + GST
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Office Of Continuing Pharmacy Education
The Office of Continuing Pharmacy Education has transitioned all upcoming live in-person CE activities to live webinar activities, to meet the needs of our pharmacy community in providing live ACPE CE opportunities.
A full schedule of webinar offerings are now open for registration. Please review the program information, which denotes program accreditation type, prior to registering.
An expanded library of inter-professional enduring online programming is available for self-paced participation, please take a moment to review these new offerings.
If you have any questions or require assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact the Office of Continuing Pharmacy Education at
Navigating The Pharmacy Landscape
The pharmacy ecosystem can feel like a maze. The system has become so complex that even people who work in it every day often struggle to navigate it. With over 20 years of pharmacy and healthcare experience, Pear continues to follow the changes in order to better equip you and your teams to navigate effectively, with confidence. We develop and implement practical solutions that engage and inspire healthcare professionals and patients to change.
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Free Continuing Education Opportunities
CDC, Medscape, and other HIV organizations offer a variety of free CME, CE, CPE, and other learning programs for health care providers to build and maintain their skills across the HIV prevention and care continuum. Browse the menus below to access current learning opportunities.
Hiv 101 And Hiv Treatment
Online courseHIV 101 is CPDPP accredited for 3.5 hours HIV Treatment is CPDPP accredited for 2.5 hours
Target Audience: Saskatchewan healthcare and allied professionals
Registration Fee: Free!
HIV PrEP is CPDPP accredited for 1.5 hours
Target Audience: Saskatchewan healthcare and allied professionals
Registration Fee: Free!
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Continuing Medical Education Notice
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the University of Alabama School of Medicine and the University of Washington . The UASOM is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Professional Credit For Hiv Self Study Modules
Each topic overview and module requires approximately 60 minutes to complete. To apply for continuing education credit:
Records of all your CE activity on this site can be viewed either on the CNE or CME sites under the header “CME Tracker & CME Certificates” or “CNE Tracker and CNE Certificates.”
You are welcome to take the self-assessment quizzes even if you do not need continuing education credit. You can submit your answers to track your progress without earning CE credit.
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Pqa Offers New Ce Course On Hiv Medication Use Quality
PQA course provides an overview of how to build the best HIV treatment regimen and assess treatment outcomes.
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance has developed a 3-hour online continuing education course on Measuring Quality to Improve HIV Medication Use. Launched September 8, the course complements CE and training programs that are focused on clinical practice.
While clinical training builds skills and knowledge to prevent and treat disease, quality improvement initiatives are essential for analyzing and improving practice performance.
PQA is a national quality organization solely focused on improving medication safety, adherence, and appropriate use, and pharmacotherapy is a cornerstone of successful HIV treatment and prevention.
The PQA course provides an overview of how to build the best HIV treatment regimen and assess treatment outcomes. There is special emphasis on HIV prevention and the role of pre-exposure prophylaxis , which is a growing area of pharmacist-provided care.
What distinguishes this course, however, is its focus on quality measurement. Quality measures are the standard for evaluating the care providers provide to patients and address care safety, effectiveness, timeliness, and fairness.
A plethora of quality measures exist for HIV care, including at least 13 medication-related measures. Those measures address:
- Treatment, which includes appropriate prescribing, adherence, and monitoring.
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Why Attend
HIV pharmacotherapy is unsurpassed in its complexity when compared with other chronic illnesses, making pharmaceutical care in this area particularly challenging. However, caring for persons infected with HIV is becoming more common as individuals with the disease are living longer and are presenting to a diversity of practice settings. Many pharmacists find themselves uncomfortable with their level of knowledge in the area of HIV either because they did not receive any HIV training in their formal education or simply because of the rapid and on-going advancements in this therapeutic area.
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