Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases: Current Issues and Common Challenges 2025
Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases: Current Issues and Common Challenges 2025 provides a structured clinical review covering infectious diseases, emergency medicine, travel medicine, immunization updates, toxicology, sexually transmitted infections, anaphylaxis, environmental emergencies, and acute patient management. Through practical case-based discussions and evidence-based recommendations, participants gain actionable strategies that can be immediately applied in clinical practice.
Mon May 05, 2025 – Thu May 08, 2025
Target Audience
This educational activity is designed for healthcare professionals seeking practical, evidence-based updates in emergency medicine, infectious diseases, preventive care, and primary care practice, including:
- Family Medicine Physicians
- Internal Medicine Physicians
- General Practitioners
- Pediatricians
- Hospitalists
- Urgent Care Providers
- Emergency Medicine Clinicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- Healthcare Professionals involved in acute and ambulatory patient care
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Recommend appropriate immunization strategies for high-risk populations, including healthcare workers, college students, and residents of long-term care facilities.
- Identify major tick vectors in the United States and recognize the diseases associated with tick-borne infections.
- Diagnose and manage common travel-related conditions, including traveler’s diarrhea, motion sickness, and altitude illness.
- Develop an evidence-based differential diagnosis for common sexually transmitted disease (STD) syndromes, including urethritis, genital ulcers, and vaginitis.
- Differentiate between suicide screening and comprehensive suicide risk assessment in clinical practice.
- Evaluate and manage anaphylaxis, poisoning, environmental injuries, burns, bites, stings, and temperature-related emergencies.
- Apply current clinical guidelines to common emergency and infectious disease presentations encountered in primary care settings.
- Improve patient outcomes through timely recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of acute medical conditions.
Key Topics Covered
- Immunization & Preventive Medicine
- Tick-Borne Diseases
- Travel Medicine
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Suicide Risk Assessment
- Anaphylaxis Management
- Toxicology & Poisoning
- Heat & Cold Emergencies
- Burns, Bites & Stings
- Emergency Medicine for Primary Care
- Infectious Diseases
- Acute Care Updates
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 |
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