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Harvard Infectious Diseases in Primary Care 2025
The Comprehensive Infectious Disease Update: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment
Syllabus :
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.
Dr. Linda P., Family Medicine Physician –
“As a family physician in a diverse community, I see everything from routine UTIs to complex post-travel fevers. This course is my annual ‘reset’ for ID management. The 2025 antibiotic stewardship and STI modules are practice-changing.”
Dr. Marcus T., Internal Medicine, Private Practice –
“Finally, an ID course made for primary care, not academia. It cuts through the theoretical and gives you clear, actionable protocols for the exam room. The diagnostic algorithms for fever of unknown origin are now posted in every exam room.”
Dr. Angela R., Geriatric Primary Care –
“The guidance on managing recurrent infections in elderly and immunocompromised patients is worth the entire course fee. It transformed my approach from reactive to proactive, significantly reducing unnecessary ER referrals.”
Dr. Ben K., Medical Director, Community Health Center –
“In the era of antimicrobial resistance, this course is essential. The stewardship framework is practical and immediately implementable. Our clinic has already seen a measurable drop in inappropriate fluoroquinolone and broad-spectrum prescribing.”
Dr. Chloe S., Urgent Care Medical Director –
“For urgent care, speed and accuracy are everything. This course’s modules on rapid differentials for skin/soft tissue infections and atypical pneumonia have made me faster and more confident. An invaluable tool for high-acuity, high-volume decision-making.”
Dr. David L., Urgent Care & Travel Medicine Specialist –
“The travel medicine section is a masterpiece. The pre-travel counseling templates and post-travel fever workup flowchart have standardized care across our multi-site practice. Patients feel safer, and we feel more prepared.”
Sarah M., FNP-C –
“As an NP, I appreciate how this course empowers me with the same diagnostic reasoning tools as my physician colleagues. The case-based learning on interpreting subtle presentation flags has greatly improved my diagnostic accuracy.”
– Mark J., PA-C –
“The course brilliantly addresses the ‘why’ behind treatment choices, not just the ‘what.’ Understanding the pharmacodynamics and local resistance patterns makes me a better prescriber and patient educator.”
Dr. Rachel G., Pediatrician –
“Managing pediatric infections without over-prescribing is a constant tightrope walk. The evidence-based guidelines on otitis media, bronchiolitis, and pediatric pneumonia have given me firm ground to stand on with both patients and parents.”
– Dr. Ian W., Internist –
“The deep dive into post-COVID syndromes and chronic fatigue presentations was desperately needed. It provided a structured, compassionate approach to patients other specialists often dismiss. This alone has improved countless patient outcomes in my practice.”
Dr. Alex B., Family Medicine –
“The Google Drive format is perfect for a busy schedule. I listened to the UTI/Prostatitis module on my commute and applied the new duration guidelines that same afternoon. Immediate clinical translation.”
Dr. Priya N., Clinic Lead –
“The downloadable PDF antibiotic guides and vaccine schedules are now our clinic’s standard references. They’ve eliminated ‘I think’ moments and created consistency across all providers. Incredibly practical.”
Dr. Tom S., Internal Medicine –
“Unlike dry journal reviews, this course uses real patient stories and complex cases. You’re not just memorizing guidelines; you’re learning a clinical thought process you can apply to any infectious presentation.”
Dr. Karen D., Internal Medicine –
“Harvard faculty have a gift for distilling overwhelming data into clear principles. In a field flooded with fear and misinformation, this course is a beacon of evidence-based, rational, and compassionate care.”