Sample Topics
Allergy and Immunology
Anesthesiology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine (Adult and Pediatric)
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
Palliative Care
Pediatrics
Primary Care (Adult)
Primary Care Sports Medicine (Adolescents and Adults)
Psychiatry
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Rheumatology
Sleep Medicine
Allergy and Immunology
(back to top)- Hymenoptera venom immunotherapy: Efficacy, indications, and mechanism of action
- Choice of antibiotics in penicillin-allergic hospitalized patients
- Chronic spontaneous urticaria: Treatment of refractory symptoms
- Asthma in children younger than 12 years: Initiating therapy and monitoring control
- Food allergy in college and university students: Overview and management
- Sublingual immunotherapy for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma
- Overview of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies
- Component testing for pollen-related, plant-derived food allergies
- Anaphylaxis: Emergency treatment
- Approach to the patient with unexplained eosinophilia
- Periodic fever syndromes and other autoinflammatory diseases: An overview
- Vernal keratoconjunctivitis
- Progestogen hypersensitivity
- Stinging insects: Avoidance
- Genetic testing in patients with a suspected primary immunodeficiency or autoinflammatory syndrome
- Assessment of mold in the indoor environment
- The role of fungi (molds) in human disease
Anesthesiology
(back to top)- Prescription of opioids for acute pain in opioid naïve patients
- Use of opioids in the management of chronic non-cancer pain
- Cardiovascular problems in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU)
- Cardiopulmonary bypass: Management
- Intraoperative fluid management
- Anesthesia for the patient with myasthenia gravis
- Malignant hyperthermia: Clinical diagnosis and management of acute crisis
- Postoperative nausea and vomiting
- Treatment of persistent pain in older adults
- Anesthesia for patients with hypertension
Cardiovascular Medicine
(back to top)- Treatment of acute decompensated heart failure: Components of therapy
- Coronary artery disease patients requiring combined anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy
- Management of elevated low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
- Atrial fibrillation: Anticoagulant therapy to prevent thromboembolism
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of stress (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy
- Choice of therapy for symptomatic severe aortic stenosis
- Management of antithrombotic therapy for a prosthetic heart valve during pregnancy
- Acute pericarditis: Clinical presentation and diagnostic evaluation
- Reflex syncope in adults and adolescents: Treatment
- Cardiovascular disease risk assessment for primary prevention: Our approach
- Patient education: Carotid artery disease (The Basics)
- Patient education: Coronary heart disease (The Basics)
- Patient education: Heart failure (The Basics)
Dermatology
(back to top)- Erythema multiforme: Pathogenesis, clinical features, and diagnosis
- Ectodermal dysplasias
- Pyoderma gangrenosum: Pathogenesis, clinical features, and diagnosis
- Evaluation and management of severe refractory atopic dermatitis (eczema) in adults
- Erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp
- Approach to the patient with an intertriginous skin disorder
- Oral leukoplakia
- Treatment and prognosis of low-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Emergency Medicine (Adult and Pediatric)
(back to top)- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) in adults
- Emergency care of moderate and severe thermal burns in adults
- Febrile infant (younger than 90 days of age): Outpatient evaluation
- Minor head trauma in infants and children: Evaluation
- Needle cricothyroidotomy with percutaneous transtracheal ventilation
- Induction agents for rapid sequence intubation in adults outside the operating room
- Selection of medications for pediatric procedural sedation outside of the operating room
- Serotonin syndrome (serotonin toxicity)
- Management of moderate and severe alcohol withdrawal syndromes
- Septic shock in children: Rapid recognition and initial resuscitation (first hour)
- Bites of recluse spiders
- Cannabis (marijuana): Acute intoxication
- Society guideline links: Health concerns following a natural disaster
- Exertional heat illness in adolescents and adults: Epidemiology, thermoregulation, risk factors, and diagnosis
- Exertional heat illness in adolescents and adults: Management and prevention
- Heat stroke in children
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Environmental and weapon-related electrical injuries
- Treatment of minor thermal burns
- Initial management of trauma in adults
- Trauma management: Approach to the unstable child
- Minor wound preparation and irrigation
- Closure of minor skin wounds with sutures
- Closure of minor skin wounds with staples
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis
- Acute compartment syndrome of the extremities
- Drowning (submersion injuries)
- Nonfreezing cold water (trench foot) and warm water immersion injuries
- Accidental hypothermia in adults
- Patient education: Heat stroke (The Basics)
- Patient education: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning (The Basics)
- Patient education: Electrical burns (The Basics)
- Patient education: Taking care of cuts and scrapes (The Basics)
- Patient education: Stitches and staples (The Basics)
- Patient education: Rhabdomyolysis (The Basics)
- Patient education: Acute compartment syndrome (The Basics)
- Patient education: Hypothermia (The Basics)
Endocrinology and Diabetes
(back to top)- Treatment of menopausal symptoms with hormone therapy
- Management of spontaneous primary ovarian insufficiency (premature ovarian failure)
- The use of bisphosphonates in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
- Management of Turner syndrome in adults
- Management of persistent hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Initial management of blood glucose in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Patient education: Nerve damage caused by diabetes (The Basics)
- Patient education: The ABCs of diabetes (The Basics)
Family Medicine and General Practice
(back to top)- Atrial fibrillation: Anticoagulant therapy to prevent thromboembolism
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: Clinical features and diagnosis
- Pneumococcal vaccination in adults
- Choosing the route of delivery after cesarean birth
- Screening for prostate cancer
- Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation in adults
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
(back to top)- Approach to acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in adults
- Surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma in adults
- Approach to refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease in adults
- Approach to the adult with dyspepsia
- Overview of the medical management of mild (low risk) Crohn disease in adults
- Functional gallbladder disorder in adults
- Microscopic (lymphocytic and collagenous) colitis: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management
- Management of Crohn disease after surgical resection
- Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile infection in adults: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Gastric polyps
- Management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in adults
- Overview of autoimmune hepatitis
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
- Treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
- Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer): Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Hepatitis E virus infection
General Surgery
(back to top)- Treatment of acute calculous cholecystitis
- Management of blunt thoracic aortic injury
- May-Thurner syndrome
- Malignancy-related superior vena cava syndrome
- Hepatic resection for colorectal cancer liver metastasis
- Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair
- Appendiceal mucinous lesions
- Bowel resection techniques
- Principles of ultrasound-guided venous access
- Thromboembolism and prevention in the severely injured trauma patient
- Overview of the management of the severely burned patient
- Severe extremity injury in the adult patient
- Surgical management of severe extremity injury
Geriatrics
(back to top)- Drug prescribing for older adults
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment
- Presbycusis
- Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the older patient
- Pneumococcal vaccination in adults
Hematology
(back to top)- Renal manifestations of sickle cell disease
- Idiopathic cytopenias of undetermined significance (ICUS), clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), and clonal cytopenias of undetermined significance (CCUS)
- Perioperative management of patients receiving anticoagulants
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of the myelodysplastic syndromes
- Cold agglutinin disease
- Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and grading of acute graft-versus-host disease
- Sickle cell disease in sub-Saharan Africa
- Inhibitors in hemophilia: Mechanisms, prevalence, diagnosis, and eradication
- Factor XI (eleven) deficiency
- Clinical features and diagnosis of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Hospital Medicine
(back to top)- Hospital discharge and readmission
- Evaluation and management of suspected sepsis and septic shock in adults
- Treatment, prognosis, and follow-up of acute pulmonary embolism in adults
- Treatment of hypercalcemia
- Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation in adults
Infectious Diseases
(back to top)- Acinetobacter infection: Epidemiology, microbiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, and diagnosis
- Acinetobacter infection: Treatment and prevention
- Acute simple cystitis in women
- Aeromonas infections
- Approach to the adult with acute diarrhea in resource-limited countries
- Approach to the adult with acute diarrhea in resource-rich settings
- Cellulitis and skin abscess in adults: Treatment
- Cellulitis and skin abscess: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Cholera: Clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in adults and adolescents
- Hepatitis A virus infection in adults: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
- Hepatitis A virus infection: Treatment and prevention
- Human papillomavirus vaccination
- Initial therapy and prognosis of bacterial meningitis in adults
- Leptospirosis: Epidemiology, microbiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
- Leptospirosis: Treatment and prevention
- Mucormycosis (zygomycosis)
- Overview of community-acquired pneumonia in adults
- Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in resource-limited settings
- Procalcitonin use in lower respiratory tract infections
- Screening for sexually transmitted infections
- Soft tissue infections following water exposure
- Tetanus
- Tetanus-diphtheria toxoid vaccination in adults
- Treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in adults who require hospitalization
- Treatment of herpes zoster in the immunocompetent host
- Vibrio vulnificus infections
- Yellow fever
- Patient education: Acute diarrhea in adults (Beyond the Basics)
- Patient education: Diarrhea in adolescents and adults (The Basics)
- Patient education: Hepatitis A (The Basics)
- Patient education: Leptospirosis (The Basics)
- Patient education: Tetanus (The Basics)
Nephrology and Hypertension
(back to top)- Antihypertensive therapy and progression of nondiabetic chronic kidney disease in adults
- Evaluation of the adult patient with hypokalemia
- Hepatorenal syndrome
- Management of hyperglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes and pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease
- Pathogenesis, consequences, and treatment of metabolic acidosis in chronic kidney disease
- Treatment and prognosis of IgA nephropathy
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: Treatment of primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis: Initial immunosuppressive therapy
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis
- Crush-related acute kidney injury
- Patient education: Acute kidney injury (The Basics)
Neurology
(back to top)- Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Etiology, clinical features, and diagnosis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Device-assisted and surgical treatments for Parkinson disease
- Initial treatment of epilepsy in adults
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri): Prognosis and treatment
- Lumbar puncture: Technique, indications, contraindications, and complications in adults
- Overview of the treatment of myasthenia gravis
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Optic neuritis: Pathophysiology, clinical features, and diagnosis
- Acute treatment of migraine in adults
- Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders
- Approach to reperfusion therapy for acute ischemic stroke
- Disease-modifying treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in adults
- Care of patients with advanced dementia
- Functional movement disorders
- Patient education: Multiple sclerosis in adults (The Basics)
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health
(back to top)- Bacterial vaginosis: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Gestational diabetes mellitus: Glycemic control and maternal prognosis
- Management of endometrial hyperplasia
- Evaluation of female infertility
- Differentiating uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) from uterine sarcomas
- Postpartum hemorrhage: Management approaches requiring laparotomy
- Approach to abnormal uterine bleeding in nonpregnant reproductive-age women
- Pelvic organ prolapse in women: Choosing a primary surgical procedure
- Techniques to reduce blood loss during abdominal or laparoscopic myomectomy
- Contraceptive counseling and selection for women
- Placenta previa: Management
- Human papillomavirus testing of the cervix: Management of abnormal results
- Treatment and outcome of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy
- Management of an adnexal mass
- Patient education: Chorionic villus sampling (The Basics)
Oncology
(back to top)- Adjuvant and neoadjuvant imatinib for gastrointestinal stromal tumors
- Management of advanced non-small cell lung cancer lacking a driver mutation: Immunotherapy
- Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion oncogene positive non-small cell lung cancer
- Ductal carcinoma in situ: Treatment and prognosis
- Treatment approach to metastatic hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer: Endocrine therapy and targeted agents
- Treatment of metastatic and recurrent head and neck cancer
- Fluoropyrimidine-associated cardiotoxicity: Incidence, clinical manifestations, mechanisms, and management
- Initial systemic therapy for castration-sensitive prostate cancer
- Patient selection criteria and toxicities associated with checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy
- Treatment for potentially resectable exocrine pancreatic cancer
- Adjuvant therapy for cutaneous melanoma
- Inflammatory breast cancer: Clinical features and treatment
- Adjuvant chemotherapy for HER2-negative breast cancer
- Management of potentially resectable colorectal cancer liver metastases
- Immunotherapy of renal cell carcinoma
- Treatment of metastatic urothelial cancer of the bladder and urinary tract
- Personalized, genotype-directed therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer
- Cancer survivorship: Cardiovascular and respiratory issues
- Appendiceal mucinous lesions
- Ocular side effects of systemically administered chemotherapy
- Management of acute chemotherapy-related diarrhea
- Management of stage III non-small cell lung cancer
- Medical treatment for relapsed epithelial ovarian, fallopian tubal, or peritoneal cancer: Platinum-sensitive disease
- Chemotherapy-induced alopecia
- Colorectal cancer: Epidemiology, risk factors, and protective factors
- Clinical presentation, diagnosis, and staging of colorectal cancer
- Hemorrhagic cystitis in cancer patients
- Overview of cancer survivorship care for primary care and oncology providers
- Patient education: Choosing treatment for early-stage breast cancer (The Basics)
Palliative Care
(back to top)- Advance care planning and advance directives
- Palliative care: Issues in HIV/AIDS in adults
- Palliative care: End-stage liver disease
- Palliative care: Overview of cough, stridor, and hemoptysis
- Physical therapy and other rehabilitation issues in the palliative care setting
- Preparing children for the loss of a loved one
- Discussing goals of care
Pediatrics
(back to top)- Newborn screening for critical congenital heart disease using pulse oximetry
- Causes of short stature
- Nocturnal enuresis in children: Management
- Approach to the child with anemia
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: Prevention
- Chronic functional constipation and fecal incontinence in infants and children: Treatment
- Behavioral sleep problems in children
- Evaluation of suspected obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Management of obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Definition and diagnosis of hypertension in children and adolescents
- Management of food allergy-related anxiety in children and their parents
- Approach to diarrhea in children in resource-rich countries
- Approach to the child with acute diarrhea in resource-limited countries
- Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunization in children 7 through 18 years of age
- Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunization in children 6 weeks through 6 years of age
- Overview of hepatitis A virus infection in children
- Patient education: Acute diarrhea in children (Beyond the Basics)
- Patient education: Diarrhea in children (The Basics)
Primary Care (Adult)
(back to top)- Dermatophyte (tinea) infections
- Atrial fibrillation: Anticoagulant therapy to prevent thromboembolism
- Treatment, prognosis, and follow-up of acute pulmonary embolism in adults
- Treatment of psoriasis in adults
- Treatment of menopausal symptoms with hormone therapy
- Management of persistent hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Screening for prostate cancer
- Pneumococcal vaccination in adults
- Approach to the adult with dyspepsia
- Screening for colorectal cancer: Strategies in patients at average risk
- Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation in adults
- Overview of occupational and environmental health
Primary Care Sports Medicine (Adolescents and Adults)
(back to top)- Overview of running injuries of the lower extremity
- Throwing injuries of the upper extremity: Treatment, follow-up care, and prevention
- Approach to the adult with knee pain likely of musculoskeletal origin
- Concussion in children and adolescents: Management
- Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD): Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Proximal fifth metatarsal fractures
- Superior labrum anterior posterior (SLAP) tears
- Hypertension in athletes
- Musculoskeletal ultrasound of the shoulder
Psychiatry
(back to top)- Seasonal affective disorder: Treatment
- Eating disorders: Overview of prevention and treatment
- Opioid use disorder: Epidemiology, pharmacology, clinical manifestations, course, screening, assessment, and diagnosis
- Guidelines for prescribing clozapine in schizophrenia
- Depression in adults: Overview of neuromodulation procedures
- Intermittent explosive disorder in adults: Treatment and prognosis
- Approach to treating posttraumatic stress disorder in adults
- Pharmacotherapy for schizophrenia: Acute and maintenance phase treatment
- Pharmacotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adults
- Severe antenatal unipolar major depression: Treatment
- Psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adults
- Psychotherapy for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents
- Pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents
- Suicidal ideation and behavior in adults
- Suicidal ideation and behavior in children and adolescents: Evaluation and management
- Posttraumatic stress disorder in adults: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, course, assessment, and diagnosis
- Posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course, assessment, and diagnosis
- Approach to treating posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents
- Psychosocial interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents
- Pharmacotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents
- Acute stress disorder in adults: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course, and diagnosis
- Treatment of acute stress disorder in adults
- Unipolar depression in adults: Assessment and diagnosis
- Unipolar major depression in adults: Choosing initial treatment
- Unipolar depression in adults: Treatment of resistant depression
- Patient education: Post-traumatic stress disorder (The Basics)
- Patient education: Depression (The Basics)
- Patient education: Medicines for depression (The Basics)
- Patient education: Depression in adults (Beyond the Basics)
- Patient education: Depression treatment options for adults (Beyond the Basics)
- Patient education: Depression in children and adolescents (Beyond the Basics)
- Patient education: Depression treatment options for children and adolescents (Beyond the Basics)
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
(back to top)- Treatment and prognosis of nonspecific interstitial pneumonia
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Definition, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and staging
- Tracheo- and broncho-esophageal fistula in adults
- Rationale and indications for indefinite anticoagulation in patients with venous thromboembolism
- Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction
- Evaluation of wheezing illnesses other than asthma in adults
- Treatment of pulmonary hypertension in adults
- Bedside pleural ultrasonography: Equipment, technique, and the identification of pleural effusion and pneumothorax
- Diagnostic approach to the adult with cystic lung disease
- Causes, clinical manifestations, evaluation, and diagnosis of nonspecific interstitial pneumonia
- Acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Complications of the endotracheal tube following initial placement: Prevention and management in adult intensive care unit patients
- Evaluation and management of suspected sepsis and septic shock in adults
- Image-guided bronchoscopy for biopsy of peripheral pulmonary lesions
- Heated and humidified high-flow nasal oxygen in adults: Practical considerations and potential applications
Rheumatology
(back to top)- Treatment of giant cell arteritis
- Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition (CPPD) disease
- Initial treatment of the Raynaud phenomenon
- Overview of IgG4-related disease
- Pregnancy in women with systemic lupus erythematosus
- Treatment and prognosis of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- SAPHO (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis) syndrome
- Immunizations in autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease in adults
- Diagnosis and classification of Sjögren's syndrome
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica
- Overview of chronic widespread (centralized) pain in the rheumatic diseases
- Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of dermatomyositis and polymyositis in adults
- Treatment of gout flares
- Treatment and prognosis of polyarteritis nodosa
- Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus in adults
- Overview and classification of scleroderma disorders
- Rheumatologic complications of checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy
Sleep Medicine
(back to top)- Treatment of restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder in adults
- Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder
- Mode selection for positive airway pressure titration in adults with obstructive sleep apnea
- Management of obstructive sleep apnea in adults
- Approach to the patient with excessive daytime sleepiness
- Behavioral and pharmacologic therapies for chronic insomnia in adults
- Assessment of sleep disorders in children
- Delayed sleep-wake phase disorder
- Adenotonsillectomy for obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Drowsy driving: Risks, evaluation, and management
- Approach to abnormal movements and behaviors during sleep
- Sleep-wake disorders in patients with traumatic brain injury
- Nightmares and nightmare disorder in adults
- Overview of the treatment of insomnia in adults
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of obesity hypoventilation syndrome