Description
🎯 Intended Audience
This course is designed for:
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Primary Care Practitioners (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, General Practice)
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Pediatricians
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Hospitalists
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Other specialists who want clinically relevant updates in emergency medicine and infectious diseases
📝 Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
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✅ Recommend immunizations for different risk groups (healthcare workers, college students, long-term care residents).
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✅ Identify the major tick vectors in the U.S. and their diseases.
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✅ Treat travel-related illnesses (traveler’s diarrhea, motion sickness, altitude illness).
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✅ Develop a differential diagnosis for common STD syndromes (urethritis, genital ulcers, vaginitis).
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✅ Distinguish between suicide screening vs. risk assessment.
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✅ Evaluate and treat anaphylaxis, poisoning, heat/cold exposure, burns, bites, and stings.
📅 Course Outline (Highlights)
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Day 1 – May 5, 2025
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7:30–8:30 AM | Pediatric Immunization Update & Challenges of Vaccine Refusal – Eppes
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8:35–9:35 AM | Chief Complaint: Fever & Rash – Eppes
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9:40–10:40 AM | Antibiotic Update – Eppes
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10:45–11:45 AM | TB & Non-TB Mycobacterial Infection Update 2025 – Crane
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11:50–12:50 PM | Skin & Soft Tissue Infections – Crane
Day 2 – May 6, 2025
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7:30–8:30 AM | Infectious Complications of Opiate Addiction Epidemic – Crane
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8:35–9:35 AM | COVID-19: Lessons Learned & Long COVID – Crane
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9:40–10:40 AM | Kawasaki Disease – Eppes
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10:45–11:45 AM | Acute Otitis Media: Of Pathogens & Patients – Eppes
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11:50–12:50 PM | Tick-Borne Infections: Hot Spots & Bullseyes – Eppes
Day 3 – May 7, 2025
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7:30–8:30 AM | Psychiatric Emergencies – Zun
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8:35–9:35 AM | Suicide & Violence – Zun
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9:40–10:40 AM | Common Office Emergencies – Zun
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10:45–11:45 AM | Pathogens in the News: What Do They Mean for You? – Eppes
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11:50–12:50 PM | Virus X: Ubiquitous, Uncanny, Understandable – Eppes
Day 4 – May 8, 2025
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7:30–8:30 AM | Influenza: What’s New & What You Can Do – Eppes
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8:35–9:35 AM | RSV (Ready for Some Vaccines) – Eppes
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9:40–10:40 AM | Uncommon Office Emergencies – Zun
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10:45–11:45 AM | Wound Care – Zun
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11:50–12:50 PM | Office-Based Procedures – Zun
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5 reviews for Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases: Current Issues and Common Challenges 2025