Vaccines prevent serious illness and death, but vaccination rates for adolescents and adults remain lower than optimal standards.
Our new initiative, the Immunization Resource Center: Advancing Protection Against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, aims to address this issue by educating providers. We teach immunization recommendations and strategies to increase immunization and reduce disparities in these populations.
Our resource center includes three, free 30-minute educational videos with continuing medical education credits designed to motivate health care providers to increase immunization rates among adolescents and adults. These videos feature roundtable discussions with expert faculty and review current immunization recommendations and best practices to increase immunization coverage. The resource center also includes patient-education handouts and links to other immunization resources for health care providers.
Our video provides expert guidance and strategies to identify immunization opportunities among adolescents and young adults to increase immunization rates. Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:
Apply Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices vaccine recommendations for adolescents and young adults
Collaborate with members of the inter-professional health care team to increase immunization rates among adolescents and young adults
This training highlights opportunities and best-practice strategies to increase adult immunization rates. Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:
Apply Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations to increase immunization rates among adults and for adult patients at increased risk for severe disease
Collaborate with members of the inter-professional health care team to increase immunization rates among adults
This training highlights current disparities in immunization rates and shares best-practice strategies to address them. Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:
Identify underlying causes for disparities in immunization rates
Be more confident with immunization advocacy
Collaborate with members of the inter-professional health care team to address immunization disparities
This program is a partnership between The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Project ECHO, Medscape Education, the Association of Black Cardiologists, the Immunization Action Coalition, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and the National Hispanic Medical Association.