harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2025

Join us for a dynamic one-week live-stream virtual postgraduate course hosted by the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Emergency Medicine. Designed for emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs, this live-streaming course offers a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field. Over the course of five days, you’ll delve into a comprehensive range of topics, including:

• 5 Tests to Consider Avoiding in Your PEM Patients: Why It’s Good for You And Good for Them
• Acute Compartment Syndromes
• Advances in the Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death
• Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience
• Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient
• ARDS
• Burns
• Cardiac Arrest
• Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl
• Code ICH: The first hours of intracerebral hemorrhage
• Considerations in Anticoagulation Reversal
• Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
• Emergency Medicine Burnout
• Emergency Preparedness
• Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
• Eye Emergencies
• Fever POCUS Algorithm
• Geriatric Falls
• Hand Emergencies
• Managing Critically Ill Patients with Septic Shock
• Mild Head Trauma
• Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
• Neonatal Resuscitation
• Pediatric Trauma & Concussion
• Physiologically Difficult Airway Cases
• Point-of-Care Ultrasound (EFAST, Cardiac, Lung, Procedures)
• Postpartum Hemorrhage
• Priapism Management
• Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: the Basics
• Scaling Humanitarian Aid, from Ebola to Ukraine
• Sepsis Updates
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
• The Digital Transformation of Emergency Medicine
• Updates in Ischemic Stroke
• Virtual Observation: Lessons Learned From Redefining The Walls of the ED

This interactive course will include didactic presentations followed by Q&A, review of cases, problem solving, and other engaging formats via remote learning. Learners will have many opportunities to develop new strategies they can incorporate into their practice setting. All lectures will be recorded and available for asynchronous viewing in case of time-zone/schedule conflicts.

Who Should Attend

• Emergency Medicine Physicians
• Primary Care Physicians
• Other Specialty Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses
• Others

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Identify underlying tachy-dysrhythmia.
• Identify most up-to-date therapeutics for cardiac arrest.
• Integrate the latest evidence-based practice strategies in treating patients with acute hemorrhagic stroke.
• Utilize latest evidence-based algorithms and strategies in management of PE and DVT.

 

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