Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases: Current Issues and Common Challenges 2025
Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases: Current Issues and Common Challenges 2025 provides comprehensive CME education 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 |









