Infectious Disease CME

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Infectious Diseases. 

Activity Description / Statement of Need:

In this online, self-learning activity:

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has upended life as humankind knows it, leading to over 668 million cases and more than 6.7 million deaths worldwide at the time of this writing. SARS-CoV-2 invades the nasal epithelium and lungs, leading to a variety of clinical presentations and outcomes during the acute infectious process, including asymptomatic disease; milder symptoms such as fever, cough, abdominal pain, anosmia, and ageusia; and, in severe cases, hypoxemia, acute respiratory stress disease, and death. Complications are not limited to the respiratory tract and may present as multi-organ involvement varying from acute cardiac injury, coagulopathies, and multisystem inflammatory syndrome. Some survivors of the disease must also grapple with post-COVID conditions (or “long COVID”), which can include a constellation of manifestations, such as fatigue and impaired cognitive function, and impair patient quality of life.

Target Audience:

HCPs including: hospitalists and other primary care physicians, infectious disease physicians, pulmonologists, and critical care physicians; physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists in those areas of specialty; and any other healthcare professionals with an interest in or who clinically encounter patients with acute COVID-19 infection.

Your MDCalc CME subscription includes 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, with up to 8.5 credits available in the Infectious Disease specialty.

Easily earn and redeem CME as you use review CME eligible calculator content. Over 1 million medical professionals use MDCalc’s over 550 tools daily to support clinical decision making at the bedside. Earn CME with the following HIV and Infectious Disease calculators:

• Bacterial Meningitis Score
• MuLBSTA Score
• Rule of 7s
• SCAP Score
• Shorr Score
• SIRS & Sepsis Criteria
• SMART-COP
• Stool Osmolar/Osmotic Gap
• Westley Croup Score

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a phenomenon fueled by the selection pressure leveled against microorganisms through the use and misuse of antimicrobials in clinical and agricultural settings as well as horizontal gene transfer between pathogens. The WHO predicts that there will be 50 million deaths caused by infectious diseases, and the U.N. General Assembly has designated the emergence of AMR the largest world health problem.

The World Health Assembly has endorsed a Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, including one step to address AMR: the sustainable investment in and development of new antimicrobials. Helping the clinician discern the role of these advances merits continuing healthcare professional education, as research suggests that HCPs are oftentimes unable to keep up with the steady publishing of literature and evolution of clinical practice. In so doing, the goal is to educate clinicians about the appropriate role of novel antibiotics so that they may more effectively address the challenge of AMR rather than contributing to it.

Target Audience:

HCPs specializing in: Infectious disease, critical care, and primary care; physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists who practice in the aforementioned areas of specialty; and any other healthcare professionals with an interest in or who treat patients with antimicrobials.

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

• Identify key findings from the ID Week 2019 conference.
• Apply the changes in CAP guidelines 2019 from 2007.
• Identify novel drugs approved in 2019 and their potential.
• Understand the implications of some current research and paradigm shifts.
• Review HIV progress in the last year.

Contains seven disease-based interactive modules:
Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV), Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Pelvic inflammatory Disease (PID), Syphilis and Vaginitis.

Target Audience:
Physicians focusing on Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB-GYN, Infectious Disease

After login, Choose “Search.” You may then search for courses by date, keyword, or display all. Searching keyword “Web on Demand” will bring you to a list of online courses on public health and preventive medicine topics with an emphasis on vaccination.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Preventive Medicine, Infectious Disease

This site offers numerous brief presentations concerning Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HBC), Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) and Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC).

Target Audiences:
Hepatology, Gastroenterology and any medical professional who serves patients with chronic liver disease.

About 17 text-based or case-based-interactive activities concerned with aspects of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C infection.

All of these categories offer CME credit: Conference Coverage, Journal Options, Management Series, Treatment Updates, Annual Updates and Interactive Cases.

Recent presentations include:
• Highlights From Amsterdam 2013: HCV Phase III Studies and Approved Agents
• Management of Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Women of Reproductive Age
• Hepatitis Highlights
• So You Think You’re a Hepatitis C Expert, Educational Material, Part 3
• Updates in Viral Hepatitis from AASLD 2012
• Treat or Wait in HCV? A Series of Challenging Case Vignettes

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Infectious Disease and related specialties.

About 16 text-based or case-based-interactive activities concerned with aspects of HIV infection and AIDS.

All of these categories offer CME credit:
Conference Coverage, Journal Options, Management Series, Treatment Updates, Annual Updates and Interactive Cases.

Topics include:
• Practical Strategies to Engage HIV Patients in Timely Care
• HIV Highlights
• Highlights of Atlanta 2013: ART as Treatment and Prevention
• Highlights of Atlanta 2013: Coinfections and Comorbidities
• Understanding and Addressing Cultural and Socioeconomic Barriers to Effective HIV Management
• Highlights of Glasgow 2012: CCO Independent Conference Coverage of the 2012 International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Infectous Disease

A set of brief (30 minutes) case simulations about:
• Hepatitis A (3)
• Hepatitis B (14)
• Hepatitis C (6)
• Common Management Issues (2) and
• Health Educator (2).

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Infectious Disease