Sample Topics
Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Adult Primary Care and Internal Medicine
Allergy and Immunology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Dermatology
Endocrinology and Diabetes
Family Medicine and General Practice
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
General Surgery
Geriatrics
Hematology
Hospital Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Nephrology and Hypertension
Neurology
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health
Oncology
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Rheumatology
Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine
(back to top)- Emergency care of moderate and severe thermal burns in adults
- Fever without a source in children 3 to 36 months of age
- Hip fractures in adults
- Minor head trauma in infants and children
- Needle cricothyroidotomy with percutaneous transtracheal ventilation
- Sedation or induction agents for rapid sequence intubation in adults
- Selection of medications for pediatric procedural sedation outside of the operating room
- Serotonin syndrome
- Management of moderate and severe alcohol withdrawal syndromes
Adult Primary Care and Internal Medicine
(back to top)- Acute sinusitis and rhinosinusitis in adults: Treatment
- Approach to the diagnosis and evaluation of low back pain in adults
- Dermatophyte (tinea) infections
- Screening for prostate cancer
- Treatment of acute pulmonary embolism
- Treatment of psoriasis
Allergy and Immunology
(back to top)- Bees, yellow jackets, hornets, and wasps: Avoidance
- Chronic urticaria: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, pathogenesis, and natural history
- Chronic urticaria: Standard management and patient education
- Sublingual and oral immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis
- Allergy testing in eosinophilic esophagitis
- Prebiotics and probiotics for treatment of allergic disease
- Hereditary angioedema: Treatment of acute attacks
Cardiovascular Medicine
(back to top)- Cardiorenal syndrome: Prognosis and treatment
- Elective noncardiac surgery after percutaneous coronary intervention
- Coronary artery stent thrombosis: Clinical presentation and management
- Antiplatelet therapy after coronary artery stenting
- Selecting the optimal cardiac stress test
- Stress-induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- Treatment and prognosis of diastolic heart failure
- Treatment of acute pericarditis
- Patient information: Carotid artery disease (The Basics)
- Patient information: Coronary heart disease (The Basics)
- Patient information: Heart failure (The Basics)
Dermatology
(back to top)- Acute palmoplantar eczema (dyshidrotic eczema)
- Dermatitis herpetiformis
- Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS)
- Lymphomatoid papulosis
- Management of refractory discoid lupus and subacute cutaneous lupus
- Parapsoriasis (small plaque and large plaque parapsoriasis)
- Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis): Pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Endocrinology and Diabetes
(back to top)- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of menopause
- Evaluation and management of aromatase inhibitor-induced bone loss
- Iodine deficiency disorders
- Management of persistent hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Treatment of primary aldosteronism
- Patient information: Nerve damage caused by diabetes (The Basics)
- Patient information: The ABCs of diabetes (The Basics)
Family Medicine and General Practice
(back to top)- Antithrombotic therapy to prevent embolization in atrial fibrillation
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: Clinical features and evaluation
- Evaluation of the patient with shoulder complaints
- Prevention of varicella-zoster virus infection: Chickenpox
- Choosing the route of delivery after cesarean birth
- Screening for prostate cancer
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
(back to top)- Approach to acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in adults
- Approach to adults with steroid-refractory and steroid-dependent ulcerative colitis
- Approach to refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease in adults
- Approach to the patient with dyspepsia
- Evaluation of adults with ascites
- Functional gallbladder disorder in adults
- Antibiotics for treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases
- Assessing surgical risk in patients with liver disease
- Clostridium difficile in adults: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Colorectal cancer surveillance in inflammatory bowel disease
- Definition, epidemiology, and risk factors in inflammatory bowel disease
- Endoscopic resection for treatment of high-grade dysplasia and early cancer in Barrett's esophagus
- Fertility, pregnancy, and nursing in inflammatory bowel disease
- Management of severe ulcerative colitis
- Overview of the management of hepatitis B and case examples
- Treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
General Surgery
(back to top)- Abdominal compartment syndrome
- Management of symptomatic (non-ruptured) and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Management of splenic injury in the adult trauma patient
- Diagnostic evaluation of women with suspected breast cancer
- Lower extremity amputation
- Parastomal hernia
- Sentinel lymph node dissection for breast cancer: Indications and outcomes
- Surgical management of ulcerative colitis
- Surgical management of esophageal perforation
Geriatrics
(back to top)- Drug prescribing for older adults
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment
- Presbycusis
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the elderly patient
Hematology
(back to top)- Anemia in the older adult
- Clinical and laboratory aspects of platelet transfusion therapy
- Management of anticoagulation before and after elective surgery
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of the myelodysplastic syndromes
- Porphyria cutanea tarda and hepatoerythropoietic porphyria
- Treatment and prognosis of adult T cell leukemia-lymphoma
Hospital Medicine
(back to top)- Estimation of cardiac risk prior to noncardiac surgery
- Hospital discharge
- Evaluation and management of severe sepsis and septic shock in adults
- Treatment of acute pulmonary embolism
- Treatment of hypercalcemia
Infectious Diseases
(back to top)- Acute uncomplicated cystitis and pyelonephritis in women
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infections
- Initial therapy and prognosis of bacterial meningitis in adults
- Selecting antiretroviral regimens for the treatment naive HIV-infected patient
- Treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in adults who require hospitalization
- Treatment and prevention of streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis
- Clostridium difficile in adults: Treatment
- Treatment of candidemia and invasive candidiasis in adults
- Treatment of neutropenic fever syndromes in adults with hematologic malignancies and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients (high-risk patients)
Nephrology and Hypertension
(back to top)- Antihypertensive therapy and progression of nondiabetic chronic kidney disease in adults
- Treatment and prognosis of IgA nephropathy
- Serum cardiac enzymes in patients with renal failure
- Treatment of primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Initial immunosuppressive therapy in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's) and microscopic polyangiitis
Neurology
(back to top)- Posterior circulation cerebrovascular syndromes
- Antiplatelet therapy for secondary prevention of stroke
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Etiology, clinical features, and diagnosis
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome
- Epidemiology and clinical features of multiple sclerosis in adults
- Evaluation and management of drug-resistant epilepsy
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri): Prognosis and treatment
- Lumbar puncture: Technique, indications, contraindications, and complications in adults
- Natalizumab for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in adults
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Optic neuritis: Pathophysiology, clinical features, and diagnosis
- Restless legs syndrome
- Thunderclap headache
- Treatment of progressive multiple sclerosis in adults
- Treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in adults
- Patient information: Multiple sclerosis in adults (The Basics)
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health
(back to top)- Bacterial vaginosis
- Cervical insufficiency
- Classification and diagnosis of endometrial hyperplasia
- Evaluation of female infertility
- Hysteroscopic myomectomy
- Management of postpartum hemorrhage at cesarean delivery
- Management of problems related to intrauterine contraception
- Methotrexate treatment of tubal and interstitial ectopic pregnancy
- Pelvic organ prolapse in women: Choosing a primary surgical procedure
- Techniques to reduce blood loss during abdominal or laparoscopic myomectomy
- Treatment and outcome of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy
- Patient information: Chorionic villus sampling (The Basics)
Oncology
(back to top)- Adjuvant and neoadjuvant imatinib for gastrointestinal stromal tumors
- Adjuvant medical therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer
- Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion oncogene positive non-small cell lung cancer
- Approach to adjuvant treatment of endometrial cancer
- Benefits and risks of smoking cessation
- Castrate resistant prostate cancer: Treatments targeting the androgen pathway
- Initial hormone therapy for metastatic prostate cancer
- Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and staging of exocrine pancreatic cancer
- Systemic therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer in elderly patients and patients with a poor performance status
- Immunotherapy of advanced melanoma with immune checkpoint inhibition
- Management of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome and patients with BRCA mutations
- Management of potentially resectable colorectal cancer liver metastases
- Molecularly targeted therapy for metastatic melanoma
- Overview of fertility and pregnancy in cancer survivors
- Patient information: Choosing treatment for early-stage breast cancer (The Basics)
- Patient information: Prostate cancer screening (PSA tests) (The Basics)
- Personalized, genotype-directed therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer
- Prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
- Radiation therapy, chemoradiotherapy, neoadjuvant approaches, and postoperative adjuvant therapy for localized cancers of the esophagus
- Systemic treatment of metastatic soft tissue sarcoma
- Treatment of oligodendroglial tumors
- Tumor lysis syndrome: Prevention and treatment
Pediatrics
(back to top)- Approach to the child with bleeding symptoms
- Congenital heart disease (CHD) in the newborn: Presentation and screening for critical CHD
- Foreign bodies of the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract in children
- Management of nocturnal enuresis in children
- Pediatric prevention of adult cardiovascular disease: Promoting a healthy lifestyle and identifying at-risk children
- Sudden cardiac arrest and death in children
- Surgical management of severe obesity in adolescents
- Treatment of recurrent virus-induced wheezing in young children
- Bees, yellow jackets, hornets, and wasps: Avoidance
Psychiatry
(back to top)- Bipolar disorder in adults: Pharmacotherapy for acute mania, mixed episodes, and hypomania
- Bulimia nervosa in adults: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Cocaine abuse and dependence in adults
- Guidelines for prescribing clozapine in schizophrenia
- Initial treatment of depression in adults
- Intermittent explosive disorder in adults: Treatment and prognosis
- Pharmacotherapy for alcohol abuse and dependence
- Pharmacotherapy for schizophrenia: Acute and maintenance phase treatment
- Psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder
- Unipolar major depression with psychotic features: Acute treatment
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
(back to top)- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Definition, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and staging
- Corticosteroid therapy in septic shock
- Diffuse panbronchiolitis
- Withholding and withdrawing ventilatory support in the intensive care unit
- Measurement of pleural pressure
- Reactive airways dysfunction syndrome and irritant-induced asthma
- Treatment of pulmonary hypertension in adults
- Thoracic ultrasound: Indications, advantages, and technique
Rheumatology
(back to top)- Causes of rhabdomyolysis
- Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
- Diagnosis of the antiphospholipid syndrome
- Initial treatment of the Raynaud phenomenon
- Overview of IgG4-related disease
- Pregnancy in women with systemic lupus erythematosus
- Prognosis and treatment of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Reactive arthritis (formerly Reiter syndrome)
- Treatment of fibromyalgia in adults not responsive to initial therapies
- Treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica
- Treatment of the Raynaud phenomenon resistant to initial therapy