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
- The role of fungi (molds) in human disease
- Assessment of mold in the indoor environment
- Stings of imported fire ants: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment
- Patient education: Imported fire ants (Beyond the Basics)
- Approach to the patient with unexplained eosinophilia
Anesthesiology
(back to top)- Prescription of opioids for acute pain in opioid naïve patients
- Anesthesia for adults with acute spinal cord injury
- Postoperative visual loss after anesthesia for nonocular surgery
- Anesthesia for the patient with preeclampsia
- Video laryngoscopes and optical stylets for airway management for anesthesia in adults
- Anesthesia for the patient with myasthenia gravis
- Malignant hyperthermia: Clinical diagnosis and management of acute crisis
- Anesthesia for the adult with pheochromocytoma
Cardiovascular Medicine
(back to top)- Treatment of acute decompensated heart failure: Components of therapy
- Antithrombotic therapy after coronary stenting in patients receiving long-term anticoagulation
- 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: Treatment
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: Diagnostic evaluation and diagnosis
- Patient education: Carotid artery disease (The Basics)
- Patient education: Coronary heart disease (The Basics)
- Patient education: Heart failure (The Basics)
Dermatology
(back to top)- Vitiligo: Management and prognosis
- Erythrodermic psoriasis in adults
- Venous malformations
- Congenital and inherited hyperpigmentation disorders
- 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)
- Evaluation and management of Crotalinae (rattlesnake, water moccasin [cottonmouth], or copperhead) bites in the United States
- 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
- Environmental and weapon-related electrical injuries
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Treatment of minor thermal burns
- 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
- Society guideline links: Health concerns following a hurricane
- Patient education: Heat stroke (The Basics)
- Patient education: Electrical burns (The Basics)
- Patient education: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning (The Basics)
- Patient education: Taking care of cuts and scrapes (The Basics)
- Patient education: Rhabdomyolysis (The Basics)
- Patient education: Acute compartment syndrome (The Basics)
- Patient education: Stitches and staples (The Basics)
- Initial management of trauma in adults
- Trauma management: Approach to the unstable child
- Drowning (submersion injuries)
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
- Urethral strictures in men
- Epidemiology, clinical features, and diagnosis of mechanical small bowel obstruction in adults
- 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
- Severe extremity injury in the adult patient
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)- Overview of cholera
- 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
- Tetanus
- Tetanus-diphtheria toxoid vaccination in adults
- Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunization in children 7 through 18 years of age
- Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunization in infants and children 0 through 6 years of age
- Vibrio vulnificus infections
- Aeromonas infections
- Soft tissue infections following water exposure
- Approach to the adult with acute diarrhea in resource-rich settings
- Approach to diarrhea in children in resource-rich countries
- Approach to the adult with acute diarrhea in resource-limited countries
- Approach to the child with acute diarrhea in resource-limited countries
- Overview of cholera
- Hepatitis A virus infection in adults: An overview
- Overview of hepatitis A virus infection in children
- Mucormycosis (zygomycosis)
- Patient education: Tetanus (The Basics)
- Patient education: Diarrhea in adolescents and adults (The Basics)
- Patient education: Diarrhea in children (The Basics)
- Patient education: Hepatitis A (The Basics)
- Patient education: Acute diarrhea in adults (Beyond the Basics)
- Patient education: Acute diarrhea in children (Beyond the Basics)
- Chikungunya fever
- Epidemiology, microbiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis of leptospirosis
- Treatment and prevention of leptospirosis
- Patient education: Leptospirosis (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
- 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
- Crush-related acute kidney injury (acute renal failure)
- 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
- Clinical features of multiple sclerosis in adults
- 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
- Ischemic stroke prognosis in adults
- Disease-modifying treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in adults
- Patient education: Multiple sclerosis in adults (The Basics)
- Palliative 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
- Classification and diagnosis 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
- Zika virus infection: Evaluation and management of pregnant women
- Opportunistic salpingectomy for ovarian, fallopian tubal, and peritoneal carcinoma risk reduction
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Patient education: Choosing treatment for early-stage breast cancer (The Basics)
- Patient education: 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 in adults
- Radiation therapy, chemoradiotherapy, neoadjuvant approaches, and postoperative adjuvant therapy for localized cancers of the esophagus
- Systemic treatment of metastatic soft tissue sarcoma
- Management of anaplastic oligodendroglial tumors
- Tumor lysis syndrome: Prevention and treatment
- Cancer of the appendix and pseudomyxoma peritonei
- 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
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
- Neonatal lupus: Management and outcomes
- Behavioral sleep problems in children
- Evaluation of suspected obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Management of obstructive sleep apnea in children
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
- 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 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
- Posttraumatic stress disorder in adults: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, course, assessment, and diagnosis
- Pharmacotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adults
- Psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adults
- 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)- Sporadic lymphangioleiomyomatosis: Clinical presentation and diagnostic evaluation
- 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
- Prone ventilation for adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Primary ciliary dyskinesia (immotile-cilia syndrome)
- 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
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 acute gout
- 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/Willis-Ekbom disease 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
- Treatment of 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