Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the AAHIVM HIV Pharmacist (AAHIVP) credentialing exam, including pharmacists who care for people living with HIV or support HIV prevention.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the published AAHIVP exam framework, competency areas, and any stated content emphases; if detailed weighting is not publicly specified, organize study by core HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, coinfection, and patient-centered ambulatory care domains with explicit mapping an
- Master high-yield HIV medicine concepts relevant to exam performance, including screening and diagnostic algorithms, acute and chronic HIV evaluation, antiretroviral therapy principles, PrEP/PEP, laboratory interpretation, adherence counseling, adverse effects, drug-drug interactions, prevention of
- Apply contemporary guideline-based reasoning to realistic ambulatory HIV scenarios within the candidate role: identify the task → extract key facts → select the governing rule or guideline principle → execute the best next step → verify safety, scope, and follow-up.
- Interpret common HIV-related data accurately, including HIV testing patterns, viral load trends, CD4 implications, baseline and monitoring labs, resistance concepts at a principles level, renal/hepatic considerations, vaccination implications, and regimen-limiting comorbidities.
- Distinguish common distractors and boundary cases frequently tested in HIV care, such as acute HIV versus false reassurance from early testing, prevention choice mismatches, regimen selection pitfalls, interaction traps, adherence confounders, pregnancy/perinatal considerations, and when escalation,
- Use concise retrieval tools—tables, checklists, algorithms, and spaced review summaries—to retain discriminating facts for prevention, diagnosis, ART selection principles, follow-up, and counseling.
- Demonstrate readiness through self-checks and mini-assessments mapped to the exam framework or, if the framework is broad, to explicit teachable subskills tagged consistently as DOMAIN: Objective → Subskill.