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STI Foundation Gateway Competency

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Competencies and knowledge assessed

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  • Taking a sexual history (risk assessment)
  • Partner Notification
  • Basic Observations
  • Chaperone role
  • Setting up Examination Room
  • Assisting with exam/tests
  • Venepuncture, Urinalysis, Pregnancy Tests
  • Consultations with patients who have limited English proficiency
  • Consulting by phone/video
  • Cryotherapy equipment and safety
  • Trans and non-binary patients
  • Giving Results – common STIs
  • Confidentiality
  • Safeguarding
  • Domestic Violence and Abuse
  • Immunisations in sexual health
  • Female Genital Mutilation

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