Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2026
@DR_ATM1. Overview
The Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2026 program provides a comprehensive, high-yield review of contemporary emergency medicine. The curriculum covers critical advancements across a wide array of topics, including point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), advanced airway management, resuscitation guidelines, stroke protocols, and the integration of artificial intelligence and telemedicine to optimize emergency department workflows and patient care.
Course Dates: April 27 – May 01, 2026
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
This interactive course will include didactic presentations followed by Q&A, review of cases, problem solving and other engaging formats via remote learning. Learners will have many opportunities to develop new strategies they can incorporate into their practice setting. All lectures will be recorded and available for asynchronous viewing in case of time-zone/schedule conflicts.
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
- 00 Academic Emergency Medicine – 2026 – Southerland – Multi-Factorial and Multi-Component Fall Prevention Interventions
- 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
- 27 The 2026 Acute Ischemic Stroke Guidelines – Top 10 Take-homes for the Emergency Medicine Clinician
- 28 Cranial Nerve Deficits
- 29 Top Updates in PEM Literature AY 2025-2026
- 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 Sessio