Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases: Current Issues and Common Challenges 2025

🎯 Intended Audience

This course is designed for:

• Primary Care Practitioners (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, General Practice)

• Pediatricians

• Hospitalists

• 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:

• ✅ Recommend immunizations for different risk groups (healthcare workers, college students, long-term care residents).

• ✅ Identify the major tick vectors in the U.S. and their diseases.

• ✅ Treat travel-related illnesses (traveler’s diarrhea, motion sickness, altitude illness).

• ✅ Develop a differential diagnosis for common STD syndromes (urethritis, genital ulcers, vaginitis).

• ✅ Distinguish between suicide screening vs. risk assessment.

• ✅ Evaluate and treat anaphylaxis, poisoning, heat/cold exposure, burns, bites, and stings.

📅 Course Outline (Highlights)

• Day 1 – May 5, 2025

  • 7:30–8:30 AM | Pediatric Immunization Update & Challenges of Vaccine Refusal – Eppes

  • 8:35–9:35 AM | Chief Complaint: Fever & Rash – Eppes

  • 9:40–10:40 AM | Antibiotic Update – Eppes

  • 10:45–11:45 AM | TB & Non-TB Mycobacterial Infection Update 2025 – Crane

  • 11:50–12:50 PM | Skin & Soft Tissue Infections – Crane

  Day 2 – May 6, 2025

  • 7:30–8:30 AM | Infectious Complications of Opiate Addiction Epidemic – Crane

  • 8:35–9:35 AM | COVID-19: Lessons Learned & Long COVID – Crane

  • 9:40–10:40 AM | Kawasaki Disease – Eppes

  • 10:45–11:45 AM | Acute Otitis Media: Of Pathogens & Patients – Eppes

  • 11:50–12:50 PM | Tick-Borne Infections: Hot Spots & Bullseyes – Eppes

  Day 3 – May 7, 2025

  • 7:30–8:30 AM | Psychiatric Emergencies – Zun

  • 8:35–9:35 AM | Suicide & Violence – Zun

  • 9:40–10:40 AM | Common Office Emergencies – Zun

  • 10:45–11:45 AM | Pathogens in the News: What Do They Mean for You? – Eppes

  • 11:50–12:50 PM | Virus X: Ubiquitous, Uncanny, Understandable – Eppes

  Day 4 – May 8, 2025

  • 7:30–8:30 AM | Influenza: What’s New & What You Can Do – Eppes

  • 8:35–9:35 AM | RSV (Ready for Some Vaccines) – Eppes

  • 9:40–10:40 AM | Uncommon Office Emergencies – Zun

  • 10:45–11:45 AM | Wound Care – Zun

  • 11:50–12:50 PM | Office-Based Procedures – Zun