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 urticaria: Treatment of refractory symptoms
- Asthma in children younger than 12 years: Initiating therapy and monitoring control
- Introducing highly allergenic foods to infants and children
- Sublingual immunotherapy for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma
- Transient hypogammaglobulinemia of infancy
- Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES)
- 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
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 embolization
- 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)- Management of severe atopic dermatitis (eczema) in children
- Erythrodermic psoriasis in adults
- Venous malformations
- Oculocutaneous albinism
- Cutaneous manifestations of amyloidosis
- Dermatoses of pregnancy
- Tattoo removal
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
- Acute compartment syndrome of the extremities
- 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
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
- Iodine deficiency disorders
- Management of persistent hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Evaluation and management of secondary amenorrhea
- 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 embolization
- 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
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 adult with dyspepsia
- Diagnostic and therapeutic abdominal paracentesis
- Functional gallbladder disorder in adults
- Lymphocytic and collagenous colitis (microscopic colitis): Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management
- Portal hypertension in adults
- Clostridium difficile infection in adults: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Gastric polyps
- Barrett's esophagus: Treatment of high-grade dysplasia or early cancer with endoscopic resection
- Fertility, pregnancy, and nursing in inflammatory bowel disease
- Management of severe ulcerative colitis in adults
- Treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis
- Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer): Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
General Surgery
(back to top)- Overview of treatment for inguinal and femoral hernia in adults
- Management of symptomatic (non-ruptured) and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Management of duodenal and pancreatic trauma in adults
- Management of acute appendicitis in adults
- Gastrografin for adhesive small bowel obstruction
- Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
- Overview of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer
- Clinical staging and management of pressure-induced skin and soft tissue injury
- Maturation and evaluation of the newly created hemodialysis arteriovenous fistula
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)- Treatment of iron deficiency anemia in adults
- 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
- Hemophilia A and B: Routine management including prophylaxis
- Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and grading of acute graft-versus-host disease
- Sickle cell disease in sub-Saharan Africa
- Treatment of bleeding and perioperative management in hemophilia A and B
- Indications and hemoglobin thresholds for red blood cell transfusion in the adult
- 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
Infectious Diseases
(back to top)- Cholera: Clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
- Cellulitis and skin abscess: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Cellulitis and skin abscess in adults: Treatment
- Clinical approach to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in adults
- Yellow fever
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in adults and adolescents
- Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: Virology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology
- Treatment of herpes zoster in the immunocompetent host
- Initial therapy and prognosis of bacterial meningitis in adults
- Screening for sexually transmitted infections
- Treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in adults who require hospitalization
- 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)
- Treatment of drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-uninfected adults
- Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in resource-limited settings
- Human papillomavirus vaccination
- Management of cardiovascular risk (including dyslipidemia) in the HIV-infected patient
- Cholera: Clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
- Chikungunya fever
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
- Serum cardiac biomarkers in patients with renal failure
- Treatment of primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Initial immunosuppressive therapy in granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis
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
- 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
- Patient education: Multiple sclerosis in adults (The Basics)
- Care of patients with advanced dementia
- Functional movement disorders
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health
(back to top)- Bacterial vaginosis: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Cervical insufficiency
- 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
- Placenta previa: Management
- Human papillomavirus testing of the cervix: Management of abnormal results
- Treatment and outcome of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy
- Patient education: Chorionic villus sampling (The Basics)
- Management of an adnexal mass
Oncology
(back to top)- Adjuvant and neoadjuvant imatinib for gastrointestinal stromal tumors
- Immunotherapy of advanced non-small cell lung cancer with immune checkpoint inhibition
- 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
- Prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in adults
- Multimodality approaches to potentially resectable esophagogastric junction and gastric cardia adenocarcinomas
- 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
- 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
- Surgical management of severe obesity in adolescents
- Chronic functional constipation and fecal incontinence in infants and children: Treatment
- Food allergy in college and university students: Overview and management
- Behavioral sleep problems in children
- Evaluation of suspected obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Management of obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Evaluation of hypertension in children and adolescents
Primary Care (Adult)
(back to top)- Evaluation of low back pain in adults
- Dermatophyte (tinea) infections
- Atrial fibrillation: Anticoagulant therapy to prevent embolization
- 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
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
- Cocaine use disorder in adults: Epidemiology, pharmacology, clinical manifestations, medical consequences, and diagnosis
- Guidelines for prescribing clozapine in schizophrenia
- Depression in adults: Overview of neuromodulation procedures
- Intermittent explosive disorder in adults: Treatment and prognosis
- Pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder
- Pharmacotherapy for schizophrenia: Acute and maintenance phase treatment
- Psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder in adults
- Severe antenatal unipolar major depression: Treatment
- Pharmacotherapy for social anxiety disorder in adults
- Psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder in adults
- 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
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
- Venous thromboembolism: Anticoagulation after initial management
- Treatment of pulmonary sarcoidosis: Disease refractory to glucocorticoid therapy
- Measurement of pleural pressure
- Evaluation of wheezing illnesses other than asthma in adults
- Treatment of pulmonary hypertension in adults
- Thoracic ultrasound: Indications, advantages, and technique
- 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)- Causes of rhabdomyolysis
- 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)
- Treatment of psoriatic arthritis
- Treatment of fibromyalgia in adults not responsive to initial therapies
- Treatment of rheumatoid vasculitis
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica
- Treatment of the Raynaud phenomenon resistant to initial therapy
- 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
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