Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2026

• Target Audience: emergency medicine physicians
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1. Overview

Gain practical, immediately applicable strategies across critical care, trauma, pediatrics, geriatrics, health equity, and innovation through interactive lectures, case-based discussions, and recorded sessions for flexible learning.

Join us for a dynamic one-week live-stream virtual postgraduate course hosted by the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Emergency Medicine. Designed for emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs, this live-streaming course offers a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field. This five-day course will cover a vast array of topics that may include:

Acute Compartment Syndrome

Acute Ischemic Stroke Updates

Airway Advances

ARDS

Approach to the Critically Ill Trauma Patient

Atypical Presentations of Disease in Older Adults

Burns

Cardiac Arrest

Clinical Informatics in Emergency Medicine

Current Practice in Newborn Fever

Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors and Phenobarbital for Severe Alcohol Withdrawal

ED Care of the Psychiatric Patient

EMTALA, Medical Screening Exams, and Challenging Patients: Considerations for Your Next Shift

Environmental Impacts of Healthcare and What Emergency Physicians Can Do

EKG’s

Frailty

Geriatric Falls

Improving ED Patient Experience

Innovating in Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities

Medical Jargon

Mild Head Trauma

Operationalizing Health Equity in the ED

Pediatrics – Bronchiolitis: What’s Known and What’s New

Personalized Management in Septic Shock

POCUS – (Cardiac, Lung, eFAST, Pediatrics, and Procedures)

Postpartum Hemorrhage

Predictive Model Evaluation

Pulmonary Embolism

Scrotal Pain

Sepsis Updates

Social Determinants of Health: Why Health Equity is the Business of Emergency Medicine

STI’s

Supporting Humanitarian Disasters with Digital Health

Update on Ventricular Fibrillation Cardiac Arrest

Vasopressors and Shock Pearls

What’s New in PEM Literature

Wilderness Medicine / High Altitude Illness

2. Learning Objectives

Identify underlying tachydysrhythmias.

Identify most up-to-date therapeutics for cardiac arrest.

Integrate the latest evidence-based practice strategies in treating patients with acute hemorrhagic stroke.

Utilize latest evidence based algorithms and strategies in management of PE and DVT.

3. Target Audience

Best for emergency medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants who want updates on critical care, POCUS, and ED innovations.

Who Should Participate

Emergency Medicine Physicians, Specialty Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, EMT/Paramedics, and Others.

4. Topics

01 Echo in Pulmonary Embolism

02 Emergency Management of Burns

03 AI in the ED

04 Clinical Informatics in the ED

05 Geriatric Falls

06 Impact of Boarding on Geriatric Patients

07 Scrotal Pain in the ED

08 ARDS

09 Professionalism what does it really mean… and why do we care

10 Mild Head Trauma

11 Cardiac Arrest

12 Improving Emergency Department Patient Experience Principles and Practice

13 Innovation in Emergency Medicine Challenges and Opportunities

14 Tele-Disaster Medicine – From COVID to Ukraine

15 Current Practice in Newborn Fever

16 Airway Advances

17 POCUS Cardiac and Lung

18 POCUS E-FAST

19 POCUS – Procedures (IV, LP)

20 POCUS – Pediatric Cases

21 How to read ischemia on ECGs

22 Practice Updates in Acute PE

23 Critical Care Double Feature Push Dose Pressors in the ED and Severe Alcohol Withdrawal 1

23 Critical Care Double Feature Push Dose Pressors in the ED and Severe Alcohol Withdrawal 2

24 10 Things You Never Imagined About Monitoring Blood Pressure

25 Beyond “Medical Clearance” ED Evaluation of the Patient Presenting with Acute Psychiatric Complaints

26 Update on the treatment of ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest

28 Cranial Nerve Deficits

30 Recent Cardiologic Advances in EM

31 Vasopressors and Shock Pearls

32 On-field management of medical emergencies in the elite athlete take home lessons for your next shift

33 Hand Injuries How would You treat them; Case-Based Updates

34 STI

35 Wilderness Medicine High Altitude Equity is the Business of Emergency Medicine

36 Frostbite Management in the ED

37 Practical Sustainability Reducing Harm from Environmental Impacts of Healthcare

38 Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage

39 Current concepts in the management of septic shock

40 Ocular Emergencies

April 27 Afternoon Session

April 27 Morning Session

April 28 Afternoon Session

April 28 Morning Session

April 29 Afternoon Session

April 29 Morning Session

April 30 Afternoon Session

April 30 Morning Session

May 01 Afternoon Session

May 01 Morning Session