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
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)- Diagnostic evaluation of IgE-mediated food allergy
- Allergic reactions to seminal plasma
- Chronic spontaneous urticaria: Treatment of refractory symptoms
- Food allergy in college and university students: Overview and management
- Sublingual immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis: SLIT-tablets
- Overview of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies
- Anaphylaxis: Emergency treatment
- Approach to the patient with unexplained eosinophilia
- Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis: Management and prognosis
- Hereditary alpha-tryptasemia
- Management of food allergy-related anxiety in children and their parents/caregivers
- Genetic testing in patients with a suspected primary immunodeficiency or autoinflammatory syndrome
- Idiopathic anaphylaxis
- Mastocytosis (cutaneous and systemic) in children: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, evaluation, and diagnosis
- Asthma in children younger than 12 years: Management of persistent asthma with controller therapies
- The autoinflammatory diseases: An overview
- Chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyposis: Management and prognosis
- Transient hypogammaglobulinemia of infancy
Anesthesiology
(back to top)- Post dural puncture headache
- Pharmacologic management of chronic non-cancer pain in adults
- 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)- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Management of patients with outflow tract obstruction
- Overview of the acute management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction
- Hypertriglyceridemia in adults: Management
- Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol-lowering therapy in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
- Atrial fibrillation in adults: Selection of candidates for anticoagulation
- Reflex syncope in adults and adolescents: Treatment
- Acute pericarditis: Treatment and prognosis
- Premature ventricular complexes: Treatment and prognosis
- Overview of management of infective endocarditis in adults
- Treatment and prognosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
- Syncope in adults: Clinical manifestations and initial diagnostic evaluation
- Patent foramen ovale
- Indications for valve replacement for high gradient aortic stenosis in adults
- Primary pharmacologic therapy for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Patient education: Coronary artery disease (The Basics)
- Patient education: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in adults (The Basics)
Dermatology
(back to top)- Initial management of discoid lupus erythematosus and subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus
- Keloids and hypertrophic scars
- Radiation dermatitis
- Pityriasis lichenoides chronica
- Acne in infants, young children, and preadolescents
- Management of discoid lupus erythematosus and subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus refractory to antimalarial therapy
- Evaluation and management of severe refractory atopic dermatitis (eczema) in adults
Emergency Medicine (Adult and Pediatric)
(back to top)- Extraglottic devices for emergency airway management in adults
- Emergency care of moderate and severe thermal burns in adults
- The febrile infant (29 to 90 days of age): Outpatient evaluation
- Minor blunt head trauma in infants and young children (<2 years): Clinical features and evaluation
- Diagnostic approach to diarrhea in children in resource-rich settings
- Procedural sedation in children: Selection of medications
- Serotonin syndrome (serotonin toxicity)
- Management of moderate and severe alcohol withdrawal syndromes
- Septic shock in children: Rapid recognition and initial resuscitation (first hour)
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Bites by Crotalinae snakes (rattlesnakes, water moccasins [cottonmouths], or copperheads) in the United States: Management
- Geriatric trauma: Initial evaluation and management
- Initial evaluation and management of rib fractures
- 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
Endocrinology and Diabetes
(back to top)- Glucagon-like peptide 1-based therapies for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Ovarian hyperthecosis
- Management of primary ovarian insufficiency (premature ovarian failure)
- Bisphosphonate therapy for the treatment of osteoporosis
- Management of Turner syndrome in adults
- Diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency in adults
- Determining the etiology of adrenal insufficiency in adults
- Management of persistent hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Initial management of hyperglycemia 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 in adults: Use of oral anticoagulants
- 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
- Death certificates and death investigations in the United States
- Obesity in adults: Drug therapy
- Medical use of cannabis and cannabinoids in adults
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
(back to top)- Approach to acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in adults
- Approach to the adult patient with an incidental solid liver lesion
- Approach to refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease in adults
- Approach to the adult with dyspepsia
- Endoscopic management of postcholecystectomy biliary complications
- Functional gallbladder disorder in adults
- Microscopic (lymphocytic and collagenous) colitis: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management
- Clostridioides difficile infection in adults: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
- Gastric polyps
- Endoscopic stenting for malignant biliary obstruction
- Post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) pancreatitis
- Management of acute and chronic pouchitis
- Management of alcohol-associated steatosis and alcohol-associated cirrhosis
- Evaluating nutritional status in adults with cirrhosis
- Gene test interpretation: SMAD4
General Surgery
(back to top)- Central venous access: acute and emergency access in adults
- Surgical management of necrotizing soft tissue infections
- Total gastrectomy and gastrointestinal reconstruction
- Definitive surgical management of renal cell carcinoma
- Embolism to the upper extremities
- High-flow hemodialysis arteriovenous access
- Access-related complications of percutaneous access for diagnostic or interventional procedures
- Robotic component separation techniques
- Management of acute appendicitis in adults
- Hernia mesh
- Overview of management of the regional lymph nodes in breast cancer
- Central venous access: Device and site selection in adults
- Overview of upper extremity ischemia
- Surgical management of pressure-induced skin and soft tissue injuries
- Overview of peripheral vascular problems in athletes
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
- Deprescribing
- Death certificates and death investigations in the United States
- Hospital management of older adults
Hematology
(back to top)- Acute chest syndrome (ACS) in sickle cell disease (adults and children)
- Acute myeloid leukemia: Management of medically unfit adults
- Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS)
- Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and classification of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
- Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and grading of acute graft-versus-host disease
- Gene test interpretation: ACKR1 (Duffy blood group gene)
- Multiple myeloma: Initial treatment
- Patient perspective: Sickle cell disease
- Patient perspective: von Willebrand disease
- Platelet function testing
- Rare RBC enzyme disorders
- Refractoriness to platelet transfusion
- Selection of initial therapy for symptomatic or advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma
- von Willebrand disease (VWD): Gynecologic and obstetric considerations
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
- Death certificates and death investigations in the United States
- Management of diabetes mellitus in hospitalized patients
- Hospital management of older adults
Infectious Diseases
(back to top)- Acute simple cystitis in females
- Acute cellulitis and erysipelas in adults: Treatment
- Clinical approach to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in adults
- Clinical evaluation and diagnostic testing for community-acquired pneumonia in adults
- Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in adults and adolescents
- HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
- Human papillomavirus vaccination
- Initial therapy and prognosis of community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults
- Overview of community-acquired pneumonia in adults
- Prevention of endocarditis: Antibiotic prophylaxis and other measures
- Procalcitonin use in lower respiratory tract infections
- Screening for sexually transmitted infections
- Skin abscesses in adults: Treatment
- Treatment and prevention of herpes simplex virus type 1 in immunocompetent adolescents and adults
- Treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in adults who require hospitalization
- Treatment of uncomplicated gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection) in adults and adolescents
- Tuberculosis infection (latent tuberculosis) in adults: Approach to diagnosis (screening)
Nephrology and Hypertension
(back to top)- Choice of drug therapy in primary (essential) hypertension
- Overview of the treatment of hyponatremia in adults
- Goal blood pressure in adults with hypertension
- Treatment of diabetic kidney disease
- Noninfectious complications of peritoneal dialysis catheters
- Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury associated with computed tomography
- Kidney palliative care: Conservative kidney management
- Kidney disease in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), including scleroderma renal crisis
- Tunneled hemodialysis catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI): Management and prevention
- Membranous nephropathy: Treatment and prognosis
- Kidney stones in adults: Surgical management of kidney and ureteral stones
- Kidney stones in adults: Evaluation of the patient with established stone disease
- Lupus nephritis: Initial and subsequent therapy for focal or diffuse lupus nephritis
- Chronic kidney disease (newly identified): Clinical presentation and diagnostic approach in adults
- Minimal change disease: Treatment in adults
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
- Convulsive status epilepticus in adults: Management
- 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
- Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD): Clinical features and diagnosis
- Approach to reperfusion therapy for acute ischemic stroke
- Initial disease-modifying therapy for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in adults
- Care of patients with advanced dementia
- Functional movement disorders
- Treatment of orthostatic and postprandial hypotension
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Patient education: Multiple sclerosis in adults (The Basics)
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health
(back to top)- In vitro fertilization: Overview of clinical issues and questions
- Gestational diabetes mellitus: Glucose management and maternal prognosis
- Bacterial vaginosis: Recurrent infection
- Postpartum hemorrhage: Management approaches requiring laparotomy
- Dysmenorrhea in adult females: Treatment
- Pregnancy loss (miscarriage): Clinical presentations, diagnosis, and initial evaluation
- Placenta previa: Management
- Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy: Treatment and outcome
- Ovarian and fallopian tube torsion
- Puerperal uterine inversion
- Vaginitis in adults: Initial evaluation
- Racial and ethnic inequities in obstetric and gynecologic care and role of implicit biases
- Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: Management
- Approach to the patient with postmenopausal uterine bleeding
- Preeclampsia: Clinical features and diagnosis
- Bartholin gland masses
- Patient education: External cephalic version (The Basics)
Oncology
(back to top)- Initial management of advanced non-small cell lung cancer lacking a driver mutation
- Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion oncogene positive non-small cell lung cancer
- Ductal carcinoma in situ: Treatment and prognosis
- Treatment of early and locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Adjuvant therapy for resected stage II colon cancer
- Fluoropyrimidine-associated cardiotoxicity: Incidence, clinical manifestations, mechanisms, and management
- The role of magnetic resonance imaging in prostate cancer
- Adjuvant endocrine and targeted therapy for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer
- Treatment for potentially resectable exocrine pancreatic cancer
- Adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy for cutaneous melanoma
- Adjuvant systemic therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer
- Overview of the approach to metastatic breast cancer
- Deciding when to use adjuvant chemotherapy for hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer
- General principles of neoadjuvant management of breast cancer
- Systemic treatment of metastatic melanoma lacking a BRAF mutation
- 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
- Clinical presentation, diagnosis, and prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors
- 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 tube, or peritoneal cancer: Platinum-sensitive disease
- Alopecia related to systemic cancer therapy
- Colorectal cancer: Epidemiology, risk factors, and protective factors
- Systemic treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
- Chemotherapy and radiation-related hemorrhagic cystitis in cancer patients
- Overview of psychosocial issues in the adult cancer survivor
- Treatment of human papillomavirus associated oropharyngeal cancer
- Immune checkpoint inhibitor colitis
- Patient education: Choosing surgical 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 in adults
- Physical therapy and other rehabilitation issues in the palliative care setting
- Preparing children and adolescents for the loss of a parent or guardian
- Discussing goals of care
- Palliative care for adults in the ED: Concepts, presenting complaints, and symptom management
Pediatrics
(back to top)- Dyslipidemia in children and adolescents: Definition, screening, and diagnosis
- Initiation of breastfeeding
- Nocturnal enuresis in children: Management
- Approach to the child with anemia
- Diagnosis of celiac disease in children
- Behavioral sleep problems in children
- Evaluation of suspected obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Cystic fibrosis: Treatment with CFTR modulators
- The febrile infant (29 to 90 days of age): Outpatient evaluation
- Intussusception in children
- Juvenile dermatomyositis and other idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: Diagnosis
- Acute rheumatic fever: Treatment and prevention
- Complement-mediated hemolytic uremic syndrome in children
- Management and outcome of neonatal hypoglycemia
- Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in term and late preterm newborns: Screening
Primary Care (Adult)
(back to top)- Uncomplicated acute sinusitis and rhinosinusitis in adults: Treatment
- Dermatophyte (tinea) infections
- Atrial fibrillation in adults: Use of oral anticoagulants
- Obesity in adults: Drug therapy
- 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
- Acute otitis media in adults
- Death certificates and death investigations in the United States
- Outpatient evaluation of the adult with chest pain
- Medical use of cannabis and cannabinoids in adults
Primary Care Sports Medicine (Adolescents and Adults)
(back to top)- Rehabilitation principles and practice for shoulder impingement and related problems
- Evaluation of adults wishing to SCUBA dive
- Evaluation of the collapsed adult athlete
- Approach to the adult with knee pain likely of musculoskeletal origin
- Concussion in children and adolescents: Management
- Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD): Clinical manifestations, evaluation, and diagnosis
- Proximal fifth metatarsal fractures
- Superior labrum anterior to posterior (SLAP) tears
- Hypertension in athletes
Psychiatry
(back to top)- Seasonal affective disorder: Treatment
- Eating disorders: Overview of prevention and treatment
- Opioid use disorder: Treatment overview
- Alcohol use disorder: Pharmacologic management
- Unipolar depression in adults: Overview of neuromodulation procedures
- Ketamine and esketamine for treating unipolar depression in adults: Administration, efficacy, and adverse effects
- Schizophrenia in adults: Maintenance therapy and side effect management
- Severe postpartum unipolar major depression: Choosing treatment
- Posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents: Trauma-focused psychotherapy
- Generalized anxiety disorder in adults: Management
- 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 features, assessment, and diagnosis
- Treatment of postpartum psychosis
- Stimulant use disorders: Treatment overview
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
(back to top)- Pulmonary hypertension in patients with end-stage kidney disease
- Obesity and asthma
- Selecting adult patients with lower extremity deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism for indefinite anticoagulation
- Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction
- Respiratory muscle weakness due to neuromuscular disease: Clinical manifestations and evaluation
- Respiratory muscle weakness due to neuromuscular disease: Management
- 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
- Image-guided bronchoscopy for biopsy of peripheral pulmonary lesions
- Evaluation and management of the nonventilated, hospitalized adult patient with acute hypoxemia
- Pleuropulmonary manifestations of amyloidosis
- Clinical features and diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension of unclear etiology in adults
- Management and prognosis of parapneumonic pleural effusion and empyema in adults
- Stable COPD: Initial pharmacologic management
- Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
- Diagnosis and management of asthma in older adults
- Assessment of respiratory distress in the mechanically ventilated patient
- Evaluation and management of the nonventilated, hospitalized adult patient with acute hypoxemia
- Tracheostomy in adults: Techniques and intraoperative complications
- Bronchiectasis in adults: Treatment of acute and recurrent exacerbations
- Patient education: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (The Basics)
Rheumatology
(back to top)- Clinical manifestations 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 disease
- 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
- Diagnosis of giant cell arteritis
Sleep Medicine
(back to top)- Management of restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder in adults
- Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder
- Assessing and managing nonadherence with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for adults with obstructive sleep apnea
- Obstructive sleep apnea: Overview of management in adults
- Approach to the patient with excessive daytime sleepiness
- Assessment of sleep disorders in children
- Delayed sleep-wake phase disorder
- Adenotonsillectomy for obstructive sleep apnea in children
- Sleep-related bruxism (tooth grinding)
- Approach to abnormal movements and behaviors during sleep
- Sleep-wake disorders in patients with traumatic brain injury
- Nightmares and nightmare disorder in adults
- Pharmacotherapy for insomnia in adults
- Oral appliances in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in adults
- Hypoglossal nerve stimulation for adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea