GP Vivas · sexual-health-and-gender-diversity
STI screening and management — structured viva
Structured oral on STI care: defending site-specific testing, the doxycycline-first shift, gonorrhoea resistance strategy, serology traps, partner notification economics, and PrEP counselling.
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RACGP CCEFRACGP oralsMRCGP SCA
Prompt
The examiner opens: 'You order three swabs and two bloods for a man with no symptoms — justify yourself.' The viva branches through extragenital yield, chlamydia therapy, resistance, serology interpretation and partner management.
Stem
You are the GP. A colleague calls your screening panel 'over-investigation'. [1]
References5ShowHide
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- [2]Read TRH, Fairley CK, Hocking JS, et al. Azithromycin or Doxycycline for Asymptomatic Rectal Chlamydia trachomatis N Engl J Med, 2021.PMID 34161706
- [3]Kong FYS, Tabrizi SN, Law M, et al. The efficacy of azithromycin and doxycycline for the treatment of rectal chlamydia infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis J Antimicrob Chemother, 2015.PMID 25637520
- [4]Golden MR, Kerani RP, Stenger M, et al. Uptake and population-level impact of expedited partner therapy (EPT) on Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: the Washington State community-level randomized trial of EPT PLoS Med, 2015.PMID 25590331
- [5]Okwundu CI, Uthman OA, Akor A, et al. Antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for preventing HIV in high-risk individuals Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2012.PMID 22786505