On-going Education
FACES invests in education of its staff and patients and community in the following ways:
- Weekly CME (continuing medical education) for FACES staff and peer educators
- Bi-monthly intensive CME for staff
- Daily HIV education for new patients
- Training in relevant fields for each department such as Rational use of ART, paediatric training, peer educator treatment literacy
- Clinical mentorship of FACES staff
- Clinical attachments of Ministry of Health employees
- Training from affiliated institutions such as ASPIRE from the University of California, San Francisco
Student Training Elective Program (STEP): FACES has recently begun an electives program for medical students and residents from affiliated universities including the University of Nairobi, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of British Columbia. The program is detailed under the Student Training Elective Program.
FACES is a program of the
AIDS Research Institute at UCSF,
the Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, and
the Kenya Medical Research Institute
