harvard Infectious Diseases in Adults 2025

Antimicrobial Therapy, Stewardship and Infection Control

• Principles of antimicrobial therapy
• Antimicrobial stewardship and resistance prevention
• Antibiotic allergy toolkit and practical prescribing considerations
• Infection control for the infectious disease clinician
• Optimizing empiric therapy: what to start and when to narrow or stop
• Choosing inpatient vs outpatient treatment and IV vs oral antimicrobials
• Early infectious disease consultation and strategies to improve outcomes

Highly Resistant Infections and Difficult Pathogens

• Resistant gram-positive infections
• MRSA and VISA infections
• Vancomycin-resistant enterococci
• Resistant gram-negative infections
• ESBL-producing gram-negative organisms
• Carbapenemase-producing gram-negative rods, including NDM-1 organisms
• Clinical approaches to complex and highly resistant infectious disease cases

Fungal Infections and Antifungal Therapy

• Update on antifungal diagnostics and therapy
• Aspergillus and non-aspergillus mold infections
• Candida auris and emerging fungal threats
• Flummoxing cases in fungal infections
• Systemic fungal infections
• Fungal infections in immunocompromised patients
• Practical treatment strategies for complicated fungal disease

Common Adult Infectious Diseases

• Skin and soft tissue infections
• Respiratory viral infections including COVID-19
• Bronchiectasis, pneumonia, and NTM infections
• ENT and eye infections
• Complicated urinary tract infections
• Intra-abdominal infections and new guideline updates
• Clostridioides difficile infection, including recurrent and refractory disease

CNS, Tick-Borne, Bone and Joint Infections

• Encephalitis and meningitis: newest guidelines and best practices
• Lyme disease, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Babesia, Rickettsia, and other tick-borne infections
• Bone and joint infections: clinical framework
• Native bone infections
• Orthopedic device infections and prosthetic joint infections
• Native and device-related orthopedic infections
• Diagnostic reasoning and treatment planning for musculoskeletal infections

Endocarditis, Cardiac Device Infections and Critical Care ID

• Endocarditis and cardiac device infections
• Native valve endocarditis, including cases in persons with substance use disorder
• Prosthetic valve endocarditis and multidisciplinary management
• Critical care infectious diseases
• Rapid detection and empiric treatment of life-threatening infections
• Multidisciplinary management of severe infectious disease cases
• Quality and safety considerations in infectious disease care

HIV, STI, Hepatitis and Vaccine Updates

• What’s new in HIV care in 2025
• HIV prevention and management updates
• Pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV and STIs
• State-of-the-art diagnosis and management of sexually transmitted infections
• Mpox and STI prevention updates
• Advances in viral hepatitis: HBV and HCV
• New vaccines, updated vaccine recommendations, and vaccine-preventable diseases

COVID-19, Respiratory Viruses and Emerging Infections

• Updates on COVID-19, including long COVID
• Latest on major respiratory viral infections
• New and emerging viruses
• Highly pathogenic avian influenza updates
• Rare and emerging infectious diseases, including Marburg virus
• Re-emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases including poliomyelitis
• Global infectious diseases of clinical importance

Immunocompromised Hosts and Transplant-Related Infections

• Prevention and treatment of infections in immunocompromised hosts
• Infections related to solid organ transplant
• Infections related to non-oncologic immunomodulatory therapy
• Infections in hematologic malignancies and stem cell transplantation
• Cellular and immune-based therapies for cancer: what the ID clinician needs to know
• Complex infections in patients receiving advanced therapies
• Risk stratification and treatment planning in immunocompromised populations

Substance Use, Travel, TB and Global Infectious Diseases

• Infections in persons with substance use disorder
• Syndemic of substance use disorder and infection: updated approaches for 2025
• Strategies for managing infections in persons who inject drugs
• Tuberculosis update
• Pulmonary and extrapulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections
• Tropical medicine review and update
• Cases in global infectious diseases and infections in travelers and foreign-born persons

This course is best suited for infectious disease specialists, internists, hospitalists, primary care physicians, emergency physicians, pharmacists, residents, fellows, NPs, PAs, and healthcare professionals involved in adult infectious disease care.

The package includes 59 videos and 53 PDF files, with a total file size of 35.2 GB.

Topics include antimicrobial therapy, antimicrobial stewardship, resistant infections, MRSA, ESBL, VRE, fungal infections, Candida auris, NTM, C. difficile, HIV, STI care, hepatitis, COVID-19, long COVID, vaccines, endocarditis, CNS infections, bone and joint infections, transplant infections, immunocompromised hosts, TB, respiratory viruses, travel medicine, and global infectious diseases.

Yes. The course focuses on clinical decision-making, treatment strategies, diagnostic updates, antimicrobial choices, resistant infections, and multidisciplinary management of complex infectious disease cases.

No. CME points and certificates are not included with this course.

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