Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases: Current Issues and Common Challenges |
Mon May 05, 2025 – Thu May 08, 2025 |
INTENDED AUDIENCE – Designed for primary care practitioners, including those in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and General Practice, as well as pediatricians, hospitalists, and other specialists seeking clinically relevant updates in emergency medicine and infectious diseases.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES –
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Recommend immunizations indicated for different risk groups such as health care providers, college students and inhabitants of long -term care facilities.
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Determine the major tick vectors in the United States and their associated diseases.
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Treat common travel-related maladies such as traveler’s diarrhea, motion sickness, altitude illness
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Develop a differential diagnosis and approach to the common STD syndromes: urethritis, genital ulcers, vaginitis
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Determine the difference between suicide screening and suicide risk assessment
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Develop strategies to evaluate and treat anaphylaxis, poisoning, cold and heat problems, burns, bites and stings.
Course Outline
Date | Session | Time | Speaker | Topic |
5/5/2025 | 1-1 | 7:30am-8:30am | Eppes | Pediatric Immunization Update and Challenges of Vaccine Refusal |
1-2 | 8:35am-9:35am | Eppes | Chief Complaint: Fever and Rash | |
1-3 | 9:40am-10:40am | Eppes | Antibiotic Update | |
1-4 | 10:45am-11:45am | Crane | TB and Non-TB Mycobacterial infection Update 2025 | |
1-5 | 11:50am-12:50pm | Crane | Skin & Soft Tissue Infections | |
5/6/2025 | 2-1 | 7:30am-8:30am | Crane | Infectious Complications of Opiate Addiction Epidemic |
2-2 | 8:35am-9:35am | Crane | Covid-19, Lessons Learned and Long Covid | |
2-3 | 9:40am-10:40am | Eppes | Kawasaki Disease | |
2-4 | 10:45am-11:45am | Eppes | Acute Otitis Media: Of Pathogens and Patients | |
2-5 | 11:50am-12:50pm | Eppes | Tick-Borne Infections: Hot Spots and Bullseyes | |
5/7/2025 | 3-1 | 7:30am-8:30am | Zun | Psychiatric emergencies |
3-2 | 8:35am-9:35am | Zun | Suicide and violence | |
3-3 | 9:40am-10:40am | Zun | Common office emergencies | |
3-4 | 10:45am-11:45am | Eppes | Pathogens in the News: What Do They Mean for You | |
3-5 | 11:50am-12:50pm | Eppes | Virus X: Ubiquitous, Uncanny, Understandable | |
5/8/2025 | 4-1 | 7:30am-8:30am | Eppes | Influenza: What’s New and What You Can Do |
4-2 | 8:35am-9:35am | Eppes | RSV (Ready for Some Vaccines) | |
4-3 | 9:40am-10:40am | Zun | Uncommon office emergencies | |
4-4 | 10:45am-11:45am | Zun | Wound Care | |
4-5 | 11:50am-12:50pm | Zun | Office based procedures |