Emergency Medicine: Updates & Current Practices
- Continuing Education
Gain practical, immediately applicable strategies across critical care, trauma, pediatrics, geriatrics, health equity, and innovation through interactive lectures, case-based discussions, and recorded sessions for flexible learning.
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Overview
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. This five-day course will cover a vast array of topics that may include:
- Acute Compartment Syndrome
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Updates
- Airway Advances
- ARDS
- Approach to the Critically Ill Trauma Patient
- Atypical Presentations of Disease in Older Adults
- Burns
- Cardiac Arrest
- Clinical Informatics in Emergency Medicine
- Current Practice in Newborn Fever
- Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors and Phenobarbital for Severe Alcohol Withdrawal
- ED Care of the Psychiatric Patient
- EMTALA, Medical Screening Exams, and Challenging Patients: Considerations for Your Next Shift
- Environmental Impacts of Healthcare and What Emergency Physicians Can Do
- EKG's
- Frailty
- Geriatric Falls
- Improving ED Patient Experience
- Innovating in Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
- Medical Jargon
- Mild Head Trauma
- Operationalizing Health Equity in the ED
- Pediatrics – Bronchiolitis: What's Known and What's New
- Personalized Management in Septic Shock
- POCUS – (Cardiac, Lung, eFAST, Pediatrics, and Procedures)
- Postpartum Hemorrhage
- Predictive Model Evaluation
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Scrotal Pain
- Sepsis Updates
- Social Determinants of Health: Why Health Equity is the Business of Emergency Medicine
- STI's
- Supporting Humanitarian Disasters with Digital Health
- Update on Ventricular Fibrillation Cardiac Arrest
- Vasopressors and Shock Pearls
- What's New in PEM Literature
- Wilderness Medicine / High Altitude Illness
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.
Learning Objectives
- Identify underlying tachydysrhythmias.
- 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.
Developed and Offered By:
Continuing Education courses are developed by faculty from Harvard Medical School's teaching hospitals and accredited by Harvard Medical School. This course is offered by Massachusetts General Hospital - Department of Emergency Medicine.
Who Should Participate
Emergency Medicine Physicians, Specialty Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, EMT/Paramedics, and Others.
Schedule
All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.
Monday, April 27, 2026
WELCOME
8:40-9:00 am
Echo in Pulmonary Embolism
9:00-9:40 am
Emergency Management of Burns
9:40-10:20 am
Break
10:20-10:40 am
AI in the ED
10:40-11:20 am
Clinical Informatics in the ED
11:20 am-12:00 pm
LUNCH
12:00-1:00 pm
Geriatric Falls
1:00-1:40 pm
Impact of Boarding on Geriatric Patients
1:40-2:20 pm
Break
2:20-2:40 pm
Scrotal Pain in the ED
2:40-3:20 pm
ARDS
3:20-4:00 pm
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Professionalism: what does it really mean... and why do we care? Implications for patient safety, collegiality, and career satisfaction
9:00-9:40 am
Mild Head Trauma
9:40-10:20 am
Break
10:20-10:40 am
Cardiac Arrest
10:40-11:20 am
Improving Emergency Department Patient Experience: Principles and Practice
11:20 am-12:00 pm
LUNCH
12:00-1:00 pm
Innovation in Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
1:00-1:40 pm
Tele-Disaster Medicine - From COVID to Ukraine
1:40-2:20 pm
Break
2:20-2:40 pm
Current Practice in Newborn Fever
2:40-3:20 pm
Airway Advances
3:20-4:00 pm
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
POCUS Cardiac and Lung
9:00-9:40 am
POCUS E-FAST
9:40-10:20 am
Break
10:20-10:40 am
POCUS - Procedures (IV, LP)
10:40-11:20 am
POCUS - Pediatric Cases
11:20 am-12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00-1:00 pm
How to read ischemia on ECGs
1:00-1:40 pm
Practice Updates in Acute PE
1:40-2:20 pm
Break
2:20-2:40 pm
Critical Care Double Feature: Push Dose Pressors in the ED and Severe Alcohol Withdrawal
2:40-3:20 pm
10 Things You Never Imagined About Monitoring Blood Pressure: Practicality, Physiology, and Attention-Seeking Hyperbole
3:20-4:00 pm
Thursday, April 30, 2026
TBD
9:00-9:40 am
Update on the treatment of ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest
9:40-10:20 am
Break
10:20-10:40 am
The 2026 Acute Ischemic Stroke Guidelines - Top 10 Take-homes for the Emergency Medicine Clinician
10:40-11:20 am
Cranial Nerve Deficits
11:20 am-12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00-1:00 pm
Top Updates in PEM Literature AY 2025-2026
1:00-1:40 pm
Recent Cardiologic Advances in EM
1:40-2:20 pm
Break
2:20-2:40 pm
Vasopressors and Shock Pearls
2:40-3:20 pm
On-field management of medical emergencies in the elite athlete: take home lessons for your next shift
3:20-4:00 pm
Friday, May 1, 2026
Current concepts in the management of septic shock
9:00-9:40 am
STi
9:40-10:20 am
Break
10:20-10:40 am
Wilderness Medicine: High Altitude Equity is the Business of Emergency Medicine
10:40-11:20 am
Frostbite Management in the ED
11:20 am-12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00-1:00 pm
Practical Sustainability: Reducing Harm from Environmental Impacts of Healthcare
1:00-1:40 pm
Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage
1:40-2:20 pm
Break
2:20-2:40 pm
Hand Injuries: How would You treat them; Case-Based Updates
2:40-3:20 pm
Hand Injuries: How would You treat them; Case-Based Updates
3:20-4:00 pm
Faculty
Harvard Medical School Continuing Education attracts the best and brightest faculty from all around the world. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty.
Course Director
Calvin Huang
MD, MPH
- Director of Student Programs, Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department
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Course Fees
Registration Details
You may register through our secure online environment and will receive an email confirmation upon receipt of your payment. Prices include CME credit, electronic syllabus. At the end of the registration process, a $10 non-refundable processing fee will be added to your registration.
| Role | Course Fee |
|---|---|
| Physician (MD/DO) | $1,400 |
| Nurse (RN/APRN) | $1,200 |
| PA | $1,200 |
| Psychologist | $1,200 |
| Resident/Fellow | $1,200 |
| Social Worker | $1,200 |
| Allied Health Professional / Other | $1,200 |
Accreditation
The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 30.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
For the purpose of recertification, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board and American Nurses Credentialing Center accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education). We would also suggest that learners check with their state licensing board to ensure they accept reciprocity with AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for re-licensure.
The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification. We would also suggest that learners check with their state licensing board to ensure they accept reciprocity with 13.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for re-licensure.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has an agreement of mutual recognition of continuing medical education (CME) credit with the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). Additional information regarding this agreement may be found on the Union of European Medical Specialists website.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.