
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™12 ANCC Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
Dr. Dieckhaus' Topics
- Antibiotics in Practice: Stewardship and Smarter Prescribing for Internal Medicine
- Mechanisms of resistance
- ESBL, CRE, MRSA
- Antibiograms
- Short course vs. traditional durations
- De-escalation and IV-PO switched
- Outpatient antibiotic stewardship
- Asymptomatic bacteriuria
- Colonization vs. infection
- URI
- Duration decisions:
- Community-acquired pneumonia
- UTI
- Cellulitis
- New antibiotics
- Immunocompromised host
- Steroids – strongyloides
- When to give PJP prophylaxis
- TNF inhibitors - TB testing / Quantiferon
- STIs and Preventive Health in Practice: Screening, Treatment, and Vaccination
- STIs
- Gonorrhea
- Manifestations – genital, other
- Resistance
- Treatment updates
- Screening
- Extragenital testing based on exposures
- Mpox
- Transmission dynamics
- Manifestations
- Vaccination
- Syphilis
- Epidemiology – incidence and risk groups
- Staging
- Screening strategies
- Traditional vs. reverse algorithm
- Prozone
- Management based on stage
- Managing penicillin shortage
- Chlamydia
- Mycoplasma genitalium
- Doxy-PEP
- Indications
- Management strategy and counseling
- Partner therapy
- Gonorrhea
- STI-specific Vaccine Prevention strategies
- HPV vaccination
- Rationale
- Age expansion
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- No longer risk-based gatekeeping: universal age-based recommendation (age 19-59, or >60 with risks)
- New vaccine products – Heplisav 2-dose, Twinrix
- Mpox
- HPV vaccination
- Broader Adult Vaccination
- RSV vaccine
- Expanded indications
- Seasonal flu vaccine
- Pneumococcal vaccine
- New vaccines (PCV20)
- Lowered age threshold (age 50)
- RSV vaccine
- STIs
- Pretravel Care: Practical Risk Assessment, Vaccines, and Prevention Strategies for Clinicians
- Risk assessment (destination, duration, activities)
- Required vs. recommended vaccines
- Insect-transmitted illness prevention
- Malaria prophylaxis strategies
- Yellow fever
- Chikungunya
- Dengue
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Japanese encephalitis
- Food/water-borne illness prevention and management
- Traveler’s diarrhea
- Typhoid
- Rabies
- Altitude illness
- Special populations
- “Last minute” traveler
- Evaluating the Sick Returned Traveler: A Practical Approach for Clinicians
- Syndromic approach
- Fever
- Rash
- Diarrhea
- Eosinophilia
- Incubation period framework
- Malaria rule-out
- Common illnesses
- Dengue
- Typhoid
- Rickettsial diseases
- When to admit vs. follow outpatient
- Hypotension, CNS, severe thrombocytopenia
- Diagnoses not to miss:
- Malaria, Dengue, Typhoid, Rickettsial Disease, Acute HIV
- Syndromic approach
- Emerging Infections in Practice: What’s Changing and What to Watch For
- Tick-borne illnesses
- Lyme disease
- Anaplasmosis
- Babesiosis
- Powassan virus
- Alpha-gal syndrome
- STAR-I
- Non-tick-borne
- Mpox
- Dengue
- Chikungunya
- Candida auris
- Tick-borne illnesses
- HIV in Practice: Modern Management and Prevention Strategies
- Epidemiology update
- Long-acting HAART
- Dual drug regimens
- Comorbidities
- Cardiovascular risk
- Weight gain
- Prevention strategies
- Vaccination
- CD4-based chemoprophylaxis
- New medications/management of highly treatment experienced
- Pre-Exposure prophylaxis
- Oral vs. long acting
- Patient selection
- Monitoring
Dr. Rodriguez-Cue's Topics
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