harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2025 Join us for a dynamic one-week live-stream virtual postgraduate course hosted by the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Emergency Medicine. Designed for emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs, this live-streaming course offers a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field. Over the course of five days, you’ll delve into a comprehensive range of topics, including:
- 5 Tests to Consider Avoiding in Your PEM Patients: Why It’s Good for You And Good for Them
- Acute Compartment Syndromes
- Advances in the Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death
- Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience
- Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient
- ARDS
- Burns
- Cardiac Arrest
- Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl
- Code ICH: The first hours of intracerebral hemorrhage
- Considerations in Anticoagulation Reversal
- Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
- Emergency Medicine Burnout
- Emergency Preparedness
- Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
- Eye Emergencies
- Fever POCUS Algorithm
- Geriatric Falls
- Hand Emergencies
- Managing Critically Ill Patients with Septic Shock
- Mild Head Trauma
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
- Neonatal Resuscitation
- Pediatric Trauma & Concussion
- Physiologically Difficult Airway Cases
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound (EFAST, Cardiac, Lung, Procedures)
- Postpartum Hemorrhage
- Priapism Management
- Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: the Basics
- Scaling Humanitarian Aid, from Ebola to Ukraine
- Sepsis Updates
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
- The Digital Transformation of Emergency Medicine
- Updates in Ischemic Stroke
- Virtual Observation: Lessons Learned From Redefining The Walls of the ED
This interactive course will include didactic presentations followed by Q&A, review of cases, problem solving, and other engaging formats via remote learning. Learners will have many opportunities to develop new strategies they can incorporate into their practice setting. All lectures will be recorded and available for asynchronous viewing in case of time-zone/schedule conflicts.
Who Should Attend
- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Primary Care Physicians
- Other Specialty Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
- Nurses
- Others
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify underlying tachy-dysrhythmia.
- Identify most up-to-date therapeutics for cardiac arrest.
- Integrate the latest evidence-based practice strategies in treating patients with acute hemorrhagic stroke.
- Utilize latest evidence-based algorithms and strategies in management of PE and DVT.
Monday, April 28, 2025
Welcome
Calvin Huang, MD, MPH
Personalized Management in Septic Shock
Hamid Shokoohi, MD, MPH
Wilderness Medicine/ High Altitude Illness
N. Stuart Harris, MD, MFA
Break
Postpartum Hemorrhage
L. Suzanne Leslie, MD, PhD
Burns
Robert Sheridan, MD
Lunch
Supporting Humanitarian Disasters with Digital Health
Jarone Lee, MD, MPH
Predictive Model Evaluation
Sayon Dutta, MD, MPH
Break
STI’s
Donna Felsenstein, MD
Vasopressors and Shock Pearls
Raghu Seethala, MD
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Sepsis Updates
Michael Filbin, MD, MS
Airway Advances
Annette Ilg, MD
Break
Geriatric Falls
Shan Liu, MD, SD
EMTALA, Medical Screening Exams, and Challenging Patients: Considerations for your Next Shift
Jonathan Sonis, MD, MHCM
Lunch
Pediatrics – Bronchiolitis: What’s Known and What’s New
Kevin Schwartz, MD, DTM&H
ED Care of the Psychiatric Patient
Lauren Nentwich, MD
Break
Cardiac Arrest
Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH
Clinical Informatics in Emergency Medicine
Shuhan He, MD
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
POCUS – Procedures, U/S PIV and LP
Nicole Duggan, MD
POCUS – e-FAST
Nour Al Jalbout, MD; Graciela Maldonado, MD
Break
POCUS – Cardiac & Lung
Carrie Walsh, MD; Calvin Huang, MD, MPH
POCUS – Pediatric Cases
Sigmund Kharasch, MD
Lunch
Improving ED Patient Experience
Benjamin A. White, MD
Innovating in Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
Benjamin A. White, MD
Break
Operationalizing Health Equity in the ED
Thiago Oliveira, MD, MPH; Giovanni Rodriguez, MD; Regan Marsh, MD, MPH
ARDS
Peter Hou, MD
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Frailty
Sarah Perelman, MD (Shan Liu, MD, SD as Faculty Mentor for Fellow)
Atypical Presentations of Disease in Older Adults
Sarah Perelman, MD (Shan Liu, MD, SD as Faculty Mentor for Fellow)
Break
Mild Head Trauma
Pierre Borczuk, MD
Update on Ventricular Fibrillation Cardiac Arrest
Keith Marill, MD, MS
Lunch
Acute Ischemic Stroke Updates
Kori Zachrison, MD, MSC
Pulmonary Embolism
Christopher Kabrhel, MD, MPH
Break
Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Severe Alcohol Withdrawal
Paul Jansson, MD, MS
Approach to the Critically Ill Trauma Patient
Rama Salhi, MD, MHS, MSC
Friday, May 2, 2025
Medical Jargon
Page Mieritz, MD
Scrotal Pain
Andrew Eyre, MD, MS
Break
Social Determinants of Health: Why Health Equity is the Business of Emergency Medicine
Wendy Macias-Konstantpoulos, MD, MPH, MBA
Environmental Impacts of Healthcare and What Emergency Physicians Can Do
Jonathan Slutzman, MD
Lunch
What’s New in PEM Literature
Nicole Nadeau, MD
Current Practice in Newborn Fever
Jane Preotle, MD
Break
Acute Compartment Syndromes
David Peak, MD
EKG’s
J. Toby Nagurney, MD, MPH