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+ Target Audience: primary care physicians, physician assistants who want practical, up-to-date strategies for managing infectious diseases
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The Comprehensive Infectious Disease Update: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment
Why Join This Course?
Designed specifically for front-line primary care and urgent care clinicians, this highly rated course delivers the latest updates in infectious diseases, with a focus on practical strategies you can use right away in your practice.
You’ll gain:
- Expert guidance to deliver state-of-the-art care
- Tools to improve diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
- Updates on recent breakthroughs and emerging infections
- Practical solutions to the most common—and and most challenging—ID problems in primary care
2025 Topics Include:
- What’s New in Vaccines: Updates for 2025 and what’s on the horizon
- Respiratory Infections: New diagnostics and therapies
- Antibiotic Stewardship: Avoiding overuse while managing complex infections
- Lyme Disease: Evidence-based approaches to controversy and confusion
- Vaccine Conversations: How to counsel hesitant patients effectively
- ID Emergencies: Can’t-miss diagnoses every PCP should recognize
- Multidrug-Resistant Infections: Practical treatment options
- Caring for Immunocompromised Patients: What every primary care clinician should know
- COVID-19 and Influenza in 2025: Current guidance for evolving variants
- Emerging Threats: H5N1, mpox, measles, and other new and recrudescent infections
- Latent TB: Testing and treatment made simple
- Infection Control: Best practices in the outpatient setting
- Updated Guidelines: Urinary, GI, respiratory, and soft tissue infections
Focus on Clinical Questions You Face Every Day
Get answers to practical, high-yield questions:
- What’s the best way to manage recurrent or resistant UTIs?
- How should I test for and treat latent TB?
- What do I do when a patient has an antibiotic allergy?
- Which patients should receive PrEP for HIV, and how do I initiate it?
- How can I counsel patients with concerns about vaccine safety?
- What’s the best way to handle initial and recurrent C. difficile?
- Which travelers need which vaccines—and when?
- What’s the latest on pneumococcal vaccines, H. pylori management, and STI testing?
Featured in 2025
- Keynote Presentation by Dr. Rochelle Walensky: “Lessons from the Front Lines of Public Health”—from the former CDC Director and ID Chief at MGH.
- Microbiology Lab Demystified: Dr. Romney Humphries answers “Top Questions PCPs Have for the Microbiology Lab.”
- Challenging Cases from the Field: Our expert faculty share and discuss their toughest outpatient ID cases.
- Expanded Q&A: More time dedicated to your questions—and real-world answers you can use.
Who Should Attend
PHYSICIANS, NPs, and PAs in the fields of:
- Internal Medicine
- Family Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Pediatrics
- Geriatrics
- Adolescent Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Urgent Care
- OB/GYN
+ Topics:
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Moderator: Dr. Paul E. Sax
9:00am to 9:05am Welcome Remarks Paul E. Sax, MD
9:05am to 9:50am Antibiotic Update for Office Practice Paul E. Sax, MD
9:50am to 9:55am Break
9:55am to 10:40am Update in Sexually Transmitted Infections Daniel A. Solomon, MD
10:40am to 10:55am Break
10:55am to 11:40am C. difficile: What’s New for the PCP Elizabeth L. Hohmann, MD
11:40am to 11:45am Break
11:45am to 12:30pm Corticosteroids, Biologics, and More: Infections in the Non-HIV Immunocompromised Host Jessica Little, MD
12:30pm to 12:35pm Break
12:35pm to 1:20pm Urinary Tract Infections: The Common and the Complicated Sigal Yawetz, MD
1:20pm to 2:05pm Break
Moderator: Dr. Jacob H. Johnson
2:05pm to 2:50pm Gastrointestinal Infections: Evaluation and Treatment Jacob H. Johnson, MD
2:50pm to 2:55pm Break
2:55pm to 3:40pm Lyme Disease: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Controversies Daniel A. Solomon, MD
3:40pm to 3:45pm Break
3:45pm to 4:30pm Tuberculosis for the Non-ID Specialist Jacob H. Johnson, MD
4:30pm to 4:45pm Break
4:45pm to 5:30pm Top Myths About Antibiotics We Wish Every Clinician Would Know Jeffrey Pearson, PharmD, BCIDP
5:30pm to 5:35pm Break
5:35pm to 6:20pm Tropical Infections in Clinical Practice Carolina Geadas, MD, MSc, DTM&H
Thursday, October 16, 2025
UPDATE on RECOMMENDED VACCINES for ADULTS
Moderator: Dr. Daniel A. Solomon
9:00am to 9:10am Introduction: Vaccines in 2025: Promises and Perils Daniel A. Solomon, MD
9:10am to 9:45am Top Vaccine Updates for the PCP – Part 1 Mary W. Montgomery, MD
9:45am to 10:15am Top Vaccine Updates for the PCP – Part 2 Daniel A. Solomon, MD
10:15am to 10:20am Break
10:20am to 10:35am Vaccines for the International Traveler Mary W. Montgomery, MD
10:35am to 10:50am Vaccine Q+A Mary W. Montgomery, MD and Daniel A. Solomon, MD
10:50am to 11:05am Break
Moderator: Dr. Daniel A. Solomon
11:05am to 11:45am Sore Throats, Common Colds, and Coughs That Won’t Go Away Jennifer A. Johnson, MD
11:45am to 11:50am Break
11:50am to 12:20pm Pneumonia: Updates in Diagnosis and Management Mary W. Montgomery, MD
12:20pm to 12:25pm Break
12:25pm to 1:10pm Infection Control for the Primary Care Provider: COVID-19 and Beyond Michael Klompas, MD, MPH
1:10pm to 1:55pm Break
Moderator: Dr. Sigal Yawetz
1:55pm to 2:40pm Live Q&A Faculty
2:40pm to 2:45pm Break
2:45pm to 3:30pm H. pylori: Diagnosis, Management and Controversies Molly L. Perencevich, MD
3:30pm to 3:35pm Break
3:35pm to 4:20pm How to Evaluate and Manage Antibiotic Allergies Paige G. Wickner, MD, MPH
4:20pm to 4:35pm Break
4:35pm to 5:20pm Management of Antibiotics and Other ID Challenges in Pregnancy Sigal Yawetz, MD
5:20pm to 5:25pm Break
5:25pm to 6:10pm Optimizing Curbside Consults in Infectious Diseases Paul E. Sax, MD
Friday, October 17, 2025
Moderator: Dr. Jennifer A. Johnson
9:00am to 9:45am KEYNOTE: Lessons from the Front Lines of Public Health Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH
9:45am to 9:50am Break
9:50am to 10:35am Skin Infections and Infection-Mimickers Adam D. Lipworth, MD
10:35am to 10:40am Break
10:40am to 11:25am HIV for the Non-ID Specialist: The Basics Paul E. Sax, MD
11:25am to 11:40am Break
11:40am to 12:25pm Top Questions PCPs Have for the Microbiology Lab Romney Humphries, PhD
12:25pm to 12:30pm Break
12:30pm to 1:15pm Can’t-Miss Diagnoses in Infectious Diseases Jennifer A. Johnson, MD
1:15pm to 1:20pm Break
1:20pm to 2:05pm HIV Pre- and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis: Why the PCP Is Critical Sigal Yawetz, MD
2:05pm to 2:50pm Break
Moderator: Dr. Paul E. Sax
2:50pm to 3:20pm Live Q&A Faculty
3:20pm to 3:25pm Break
3:25pm to 4:10pm Influenza and COVID-19: The Latest in Prevention and Treatment Paul E. Sax, MD
4:10pm to 4:15pm Break
4:15pm to 5:00pm Hepatitis in the Primary Care Setting Jennifer A. Johnson, MD
5:00pm to 5:15pm Break
5:15pm to 6:00pm ID Case Challenges: How We Approach Our Toughest Outpatient Cases Panel (moderated by Paul E. Sax, MD)
6:00pm to 6:10pm Course Wrap-Up
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