Harvard Infectious Diseases in Primary Care 2025

The Comprehensive Infectious Disease Update: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment

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An Online CME Course for Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants

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.