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)- Milk allergy: Management
- Egg allergy: Management
- Chronic spontaneous urticaria: Treatment of refractory symptoms
- Food allergy in college and university students: Overview and management
- Sublingual immunotherapy for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma
- Overview of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies
- Anaphylaxis: Emergency treatment
- Approach to the patient with unexplained eosinophilia
- Vernal keratoconjunctivitis
- Progestogen hypersensitivity
- Stinging insects: Avoidance
- Genetic testing in patients with a suspected primary immunodeficiency or autoinflammatory syndrome
- Idiopathic anaphylaxis
- ACE inhibitor-induced angioedema
- Acute asthma exacerbations in children younger than 12 years: Emergency department management
- Food allergy in children: Prevalence, natural history, and monitoring for resolution
- Hematopoietic cell transplantation for non-SCID primary immunodeficiencies
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
- Perioperative blood management: Strategies to minimize transfusions
- Management of cardiopulmonary bypass
- Intraoperative fluid management
- Anesthesia for the patient with myasthenia gravis
- Malignant hyperthermia: Diagnosis and management of acute crisis
- Anesthesia and cancer recurrence
- Anesthesia for nondelivery obstetric procedures
- Hemodynamic management during anesthesia in adults
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
- Reflex syncope in adults and adolescents: Treatment
- Acute pericarditis: Treatment and prognosis
- Cardiovascular disease risk assessment for primary prevention in adults: Our approach
- Overview of management of infective endocarditis in adults
- Treatment and prognosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
- Genetics, clinical features, and diagnosis of Marfan syndrome and related disorders
- Antithrombotic therapy for surgical prosthetic heart valves and surgical valve repair: Indications
- Patient education: Coronary artery disease (The Basics)
- Patient education: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in adults (The Basics)
Dermatology
(back to top)- Management of severe atopic dermatitis (eczema) in children
- Longitudinal melanonychia
- Melasma: Management
- Eyelid dermatitis (eczema)
- Pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis of acne vulgaris
- Evaluation of adults with cutaneous lesions of vasculitis
- Erythema multiforme: Management
Emergency Medicine (Adult and Pediatric)
(back to top)- 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
- 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
- Acute compartment syndrome of the extremities
- Drowning (submersion injuries)
- Nonfreezing cold water (trench foot) and warm water immersion injuries
- Accidental hypothermia in adults
- Geriatric trauma: Initial evaluation and management
- Evaluation and management of adult and adolescent sexual assault victims
- Approach to the adult with vaginal bleeding in the emergency department
- Evaluation of the adult with nontraumatic headache in the emergency department
- Shoulder dislocation and reduction
- Clavicle fractures
- 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: 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
- Acute otitis media 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
General Surgery
(back to top)- Surgical management of Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile colitis in adults
- Management of blunt thoracic aortic injury
- May-Thurner syndrome
- Malignancy-related superior vena cava syndrome
- Hepatic resection for colorectal cancer liver metastasis
- Robotic ventral hernia repair
- Appendiceal mucinous lesions
- Endoluminal vacuum therapy
- Central venous access devices and approach to device and site selection in adults
- Thromboembolism and prevention in the severely injured trauma patient
- Overview of the management of the severely burned patient
- Severe lower extremity injury in the adult patient
- Surgical management of severe lower extremity injury
- Severe upper extremity injury in the adult patient
- Surgical management of severe upper extremity injury
- Inhalation injury from heat, smoke, or chemical irritants
- Embolism to the lower extremities
- Treatment of deep burns
- Overview of nutrition support in burn patients
- Skin autografting
- Assessment and classification of burn injury
- Treatment of superficial burns requiring hospital admission
- Topical agents and dressings for local burn wound care
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
- Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) and related disorders of clonal hematopoiesis
- 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
- Multiple myeloma: Selection of initial chemotherapy for symptomatic disease
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
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Coronaviruses
- 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
- Society guideline links: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Measles: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
- Measles: Epidemiology and transmission
- Measles, mumps, and rubella immunization in adults
- Measles, mumps, and rubella immunization in infants, children, and adolescents
- Patient education: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (The Basics)
- 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
- Membranous nephropathy: Treatment and prognosis
- Mixed cryoglobulinemia syndrome: Treatment and prognosis
- 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 syndrome
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Etiology, clinical features, and diagnosis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Medical management of motor fluctuations and dyskinesia in 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
- Acute flaccid myelitis
- Patient education: Multiple sclerosis in adults (The Basics)
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health
(back to top)- Combined estrogen-progestin oral contraceptives: Patient selection, counseling, and use
- Gestational diabetes mellitus: Glycemic control and maternal prognosis
- Management of endometrial hyperplasia
- Acute cervicitis
- Uterine fibroids (leiomyomas): Differentiating fibroids from uterine sarcomas
- Postpartum hemorrhage: Management approaches requiring laparotomy
- Dysmenorrhea in adult women: Treatment
- Pregnancy loss (miscarriage): Risk factors, etiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnostic evaluation
- Combined estrogen-progestin oral contraceptives: Patient selection, counseling, and use
- 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
- Puerperal uterine inversion
- 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
- The role of magnetic resonance imaging in prostate cancer
- Special considerations and toxicities associated with checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy
- Treatment for potentially resectable exocrine pancreatic cancer
- Adjuvant therapy for cutaneous melanoma
- Adjuvant systemic therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer
- Overview of adjuvant chemotherapy for HER2-negative breast cancer
- Management of potentially resectable colorectal cancer liver metastases
- Systemic therapy of advanced clear cell renal 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
- Genetic testing and management of individuals at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndromes
- Medical treatment for relapsed epithelial ovarian, fallopian tubal, or peritoneal cancer: Platinum-sensitive disease
- Alopecia related to systemic cancer therapy
- Colorectal cancer: Epidemiology, risk factors, and protective factors
- Clinical features and diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma
- 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
- Issues in HIV/AIDS in adults in palliative care
- Palliative care for patients with 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 and adolescents for the loss of a loved one
- Discussing goals of care
- Palliative care for adults in the emergency department (ED)
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, children, and adolescents: 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
- Growing pains
- 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
- Septic shock in children: Ongoing management after resuscitation
- Metabolic emergencies in suspected inborn errors of metabolism: Presentation, evaluation, and management
- Neonatal thrombocytopenia: Clinical manifestations, evaluation, and management
- Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) 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
- Acute otitis media in adults
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
- Ketamine and esketamine for treating unipolar depression in adults: Administration, efficacy, and adverse effects
- 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: Choosing 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: Choosing treatment for 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)- Obesity and asthma
- 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
- Lung-RADS standardized reporting for low-dose computed tomography for lung cancer screening
- Epidemiology, clinical presentation, and diagnostic evaluation of parapneumonic effusion and empyema in adults
- Bedside pleural ultrasonography: Equipment, technique, and the identification of pleural effusion and pneumothorax
- Diagnostic approach to the adult with cystic lung disease
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinsic allergic alveolitis): Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Complications of the endotracheal tube following initial placement: Prevention and management in adult intensive care unit patients
- Ventilator management strategies for adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Image-guided bronchoscopy for biopsy of peripheral pulmonary lesions
- Heated and humidified high-flow nasal oxygen in adults: Practical considerations and potential applications
- E-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI)
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
- Treatment of Raynaud phenomenon: Initial management
- Pathogenesis and clinical manifestations 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
- Diagnosis and classification of Sjögren's syndrome
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica
- Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of dermatomyositis and polymyositis in adults
- Treatment of gout flares
- Treatment and prognosis of polyarteritis nodosa
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus in adults
- Rheumatologic complications of checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy
- Immunizations in autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease in adults
- Overview of chronic widespread (centralized) pain in the rheumatic diseases
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis
- Patient education: Rhabdomyolysis (The Basics)
Sleep Medicine
(back to top)- Treatment of restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder in adults
- Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder
- Adherence with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
- 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
- Clinical presentation and diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea in adults