Intended Audience: Physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and allied health care professionals.
Speakers: Faculty of the University of Florida Department of Internal Medicine at Shands Jacksonville.

HIV/AIDS Course (Saturday, 8:15 - 9:15 A.M.) Malcolm T. Foster, MD, Professor
Educational Objectives:
· Understand and describe modes of transmission and infection control procedures;
· Understand and describe clinical management and prevention;
· Understand and describe current Florida law on AIDS and its impact on testing, confidentiality of test results, treatment of patients and any protocols and procedures application to HIV counseling and testing, reporting, the offering of HIV testing to pregnant women, and partner notification issues.

Domestic Violence Course (Saturday, 9:30 - 10:30 AM) Linda R. Edwards, MD, Associate Professor
Educational Objectives.
· recognize the number of patients who are likely to be victims of domestic violence and the number who are likely to be perpetrators of domestic violence;
· provide screening procedures for determining whether a patient has any history of being either a victim or a perpetrator of domestic violence;
· provide such patients with information on, or how to refer such patients to, resources in the local community.

End-of-Life Care Course (Satuday, 10:45 - 11:45 A.M.) Kathryn Koch, MD, Associate Professor
Educational Objectives:
· Describe and discuss end-of-life care and its relationship to the Patient's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities;
· Describe and discuss the inclusion of pain management and palliative care within the medical services for which a patient has a right to request, inquire about, or refuse as treatment;
· Understand a process for resolving disagreement between patient surrogate/proxy and clinician;
· Increase understanding of legal issues, including advanced directive and living will documents and required signatures, and rights and responsibilities of health care surrogates, proxies, guardians or attorneys;
· Understand and discuss ethics, including role of the ethics committee consultation for "unfriended" patients;
· Recognize that an education campaign on end-of-life care for the general public is being created by legislative mandate.

New Trends in Diabetic Kidney Disease (Saturday, 1:30 - 2:30 P.M.) Ronald L. Mars, MD, Associate Professor
Educational Objectives:
· To identify risk factors and epidemiology for development of diabetic kidney disease;
· To understand the pathophysiologic consequences and morphologic stages of diabetic kidney disease;
· To identify the histopathologic changes and pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease;
· To understand options for diabetic kidney disease.

Accreditation and Credit Hours: The University of Florida College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Florida College of Medicine designates this education activity for a maximum of 4 hours in Category 1 towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Application has been submitted for 6 Nursing contact hours.

Course Registration Fee: $99 or Physicians; $59 Allied Health Care Professionals; $15 Residents/Students.
Deadline Date: Course fee due by October 5.

Contact for Course Registration/Information: Barbara Jones, UF CME Office at Shands Jacksonville, phone 904-244-2380; fax 904-224-3130; or email barbara.ajones@jax.ufl.edu