Harvard Infectious Disease in Primary Care 2024 (Videos)

Specification

Published Year
2024

Language
‎English

Publisher
Harvard Medicine

Edition : 2024

Format : 33 MP4 + 30 PDF files

File Size : 29.71 GB

Description

The Comprehensive Infectious Disease Update: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment
Education for Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants
This program will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.  
OVERVIEW
This acclaimed course provides comprehensive ID updates for primary care clinicians. PHYSICIANs, NPs, and PAs can rely on this program for:

Education that ensures state-of-the-art care
Strategies to improve diagnosis, prevention, and treatment
Guidance to incorporate recent advances and new innovations into day-to-day practice

Focus areas include:

Vaccines: what’s new in 2024 and what’s coming
New diagnostics and treatments for respiratory tract infections
Strategies for avoiding antibiotic overuse
Lyme disease: controversies and solutions
How to counsel reluctant patients about vaccine benefits
Can’t-miss diagnoses: infectious disease emergencies
Treatment of highly resistant infections
Protecting our patients with weakened immune systems
COVID-19 updates for primary care practice, adapted for current disease activity and variants
New or emerging infections, such as H5N1 influenza and mpox: recognition, diagnosis, management, and prevention
Evaluation and treatment of latent tuberculosis
Infection control in the office setting
New guidelines for management of urinary, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and soft tissue infections

PRACTICAL, RESULTS-FOCUSED EDUCATION
This course provides education to optimize outcomes for patients with common, challenging, and complex infectious diseases.  Education is practical, providing answers to the questions such as:

How can I manage resistant and recurrent urinary tract infections?
What strategies are recommended for treating and preventing MRSA infection?
How can I interpret and manage the results of different tests for latent tuberculosis?
How should I deal with initial and recurrent episodes of C. difficile?
How do I manage patients with antibiotic allergies?
How do I diagnose, treat, and counsel patients about Lyme disease and other tick-related infections?
What immunizations are indicated for my traveling patients?
What are the recommendations for the new pneumococcal vaccines?
What can we expect with the upcoming respiratory virus season?
Who in my practice should receive PrEP for HIV, and how do I start it?
What is the best approach to refractory H. pylori infection?
What patients with gastroenteritis should receive antibiotics?
What are the new tests our lab uses to diagnose HIV and other sexually transmitted infections?
How should I answer patient questions about vaccine safety?

UPDATE on RECOMMENDED VACCINES for ADULTS
The 2024 course includes an in-depth update on adult vaccination. Sessions include:

Vaccines in 2024: Promises and Perils
Top Vaccine Updates for the PCP
Vaccines for the International Traveler

SPECIAL 2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
We are pleased to welcome the following keynote speaker to our 2024 program:

Dr. Paul A. Offit, Director of the Vaccine Education Center and professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and author of Tell Me When It’s Over: An Insider’s Guide to Deciphering Covid Myths and Navigating Our Post-Pandemic World.

NEW in 2024

Are you ever confused by results you get on cultures and other tests from the microbiology lab? This year we’ll welcome Dr. Romney Humphries, Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University, who will give the talk, “Top Questions PCPs Have for the Microbiology Lab.”
A faculty panel will present and discuss their most challenging outpatient referrals. We have also included expanded, dedicated time to answer your submitted questions.