Content and Definitions

A. The content of the HIV/AIDS education course must include the following:

• Modes of transmission (including transmission from healthcare worker to patient and patient to healthcare worker)
• Infection control procedures (including universal precautions)
• Epidemiology of the disease and related infections including TB
• Clinical management
• Prevention
• Current Florida law on AIDS and its impact on testing, confidentiality of test results and treatment of patients.

B. The Domestic Violence education course shall consist of the following:

• Information on the number of patients in that professional's practice who are likely to be victims of Domestic Violence and the number who are likely to be perpetrators of Domestic Violence
• Screening procedures for determining whether a patient has any history of being either a victim or a perpetrator of Domestic Violence
• Instruction on how to provide such patients with information on, or how to refer such patients to, resources in the local community, such as Domestic Violence centers and other advocacy groups, that provide legal aid, shelter, victim counseling, or child protection services.

C. The Prevention of Medical Errors course must include a study of the following:

• Root cause analysis
• Error reduction and prevention
• Patient Safety

MD course: The course must include information relating to the five most mis-diagnosed conditions during the previous biennium, as determined by the Board (of Medicine). The following areas have been determined as the five most mis-diagnosed conditions: wrong-site/patient surgery, cancer; cardiac; timely diagnosis of surgical complication; and failing to diagnose pre-existing conditions prior to prescribing contraindicated medications.

DO course: The course shall address medication errors, surgical errors, diagnostic inaccuracies, system failures, and shall provide recommendations for creating safety systems in health care organizations. And the course must include information relating to the five most mis-diagnosed conditions during the previous biennium, as determined by the Board (of Osteopathic Medicine). The following areas have been determined as the five most mis-diagnosed conditions: wrong-site/patient surgery, cancer; cardiac; timely diagnosis of surgical complication; and failing to diagnose pre-existing conditions prior to prescribing contraindicated medications.