Objective:

To report outcomes from a one-year, HRSA-funded pilot designed to establish or expand HIV residency pathways, particularly in US regions with high HIV prevalence.

Approach:

• Program selection: From July 2023 to June 2024, the New England AIDS Education and Training Center and the National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium selected six family medicine or internal medicine programs based on feasibility, local HIV prevalence, and faculty experience and …
• Program support: Each program received $68,000, faculty mentorship and networking support, and an HIV Residency Pathway Toolkit covering pathway development, training, assessment, and sustainability.
• Evaluation: Programs reported process measures and post-intervention feedback from faculty and residents; narrative responses were thematically coded.

Key Findings:

• The six sites recruited 24 residents: six in family medicine and 18 in internal medicine. None had graduated when the report was written.
• The Steering Committee held 21 mentoring sessions with funded-site directors, averaging 3.5 individualized meetings per pathway, and met quarterly with the directors.
• Consortium-wide meetings represented 22 of 31 programs, with a mean attendance of 13.6 program representatives.
• The report states that the pilot received universal approval; all six awardees described funding as essential to pathway success.

Interpretation:

The pilot combined seed funding, faculty mentorship, networking, and shared educational resources to support six HIV residency pathways. The authors describe this approach as having potential to strengthen the HIV clinician workforce, particularly in regions with high HIV prevalence.

Limitations:

• The evaluation covered one pilot year, and no participating residents had graduated at the time of reporting.
• The provided article context does not include complete funding-use results or detailed resident and faculty feedback.

Sources:

• Article context provided by the user