Harvard Heat Emergencies Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management 2026

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+ Target Audience: Emergency Physicians, Nephrologists, Psychiatrists, Pediatricians, Internal Medicine Specialists, and Family Medicine Physicians

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The Heat Emergencies Clinical Education CME Course is a virtual, lecture-based four half-day course to educate clinicians about how to diagnose, treat, and prevent heat-related illness. The course will describe the current evidence around all heat-related emergencies, including heat stroke, heat exhaustion, and heat syncope. The course will provide a background on the changing epidemiology of heat-related illness, varying definitions of heat, basics of thermal physiology, and individual and population based approaches to prevention of heat-related illness.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the epidemiology of heat related illness and associated disease processes.

• Recognize the thermal physiology underlying clinical presentations of heat related illness.

• Create a differential diagnosis and develop comprehensive, evidence-based management plans for all forms of heat related illness, including heat exhaustion, heat syncope, and heat stroke.

• Describe groups at increased risk for heat related illness and develop anticipatory guidance and prevention plans.

• Discuss the pharmacological interactions with heat-related illness and develop plans for protecting patients.

• Identify the resources needed and best steps to take for preparedness, diagnosis and treatment of heat related illness during event medicine and in low-resources settings.

• Explain the impacts of heat across organ systems, including impacts on mental health and behavioral health and kidney disease.

• Apply preventive solutions for heat related illness including from a community based, public health, and health systems approach.

Target Audience

• General Physicians, Specialty Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Pharmacists, Primary Care Physicians, and Others.
• Best for Emergency Physicians, Nephrologists, Psychiatrists, Pediatricians, Clinical Pharmacologists, Occupational Medicine Physicians, Public Health Specialists, Internal Medicine Specialists, and Family Medicine Physicians.

Topics

Day 1: Monday, June 15, 2026

• Welcome, Overview, and Importance of Heat Clinical Education

• Defining Heat

• Heat Physiology

• Epidemiological Impacts of Heat

• Fluids, Electrolytes and Perspiration

• Closing Remarks and Q&A

Day 2: Wednesday, June 17, 2026

• Welcome and Recap

• Event Medicine and Heat Related Illness

• Current Evidence on Heat Related Illness

• Diagnosis of Heat Related Illness

• Management of Heat Related Illness

• Closing Remarks and Q&A

Day 3: Monday, June 22, 2026

• Welcome and Recap

• Heat, Kidney Disease, and Outdoor Work

• Pharmaceutical Considerations in Hot Weather

• Small Group Discussions: What Special Populations Are You Worried About in Your Practice, and What can be Done to Meet Their Needs?

• Heat-Related Illness in Special Populations

• Heat and Behavioral Health

• Closing Remarks and Q&A

Day 4: Wednesday, June 24, 2026

• Welcome and Recap

• Prevention and Management of Heat Related Illness in Low Resource Settings

• Practical Resources for the Busy Clinician

• Health System Impacts and Preparedness for Extreme Heat

• Preventive Solutions Through Public Health and Public Policy

• Closing Remarks and Q&A