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The Chicago Infectious Disease Board Review

Sponsored for CME credit by Rush University Medical Center

The Chicago Infectious Disease Board Review is a unique self-study program specifically designed to meet your continuing education needs in infectious disease and is now available on multimedia formats.


 
CREDITS Earn up to 33 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
CE RELEASE November 1, 2010
CE EXPIRE October 31, 2013
 
Item No Media (Can't decide on a format?) Price Purchase
IDT742DD
Video - DVD & MP4: Includes 13 DVDs and 2 MP4 digital discs with carrying case, 1 CD-ROM syllabus, and CME information.
$1,595.00
IDT742CD
Audio - CD & MP3: Includes 31 audio CDs and 1 MP3 digital disc with carrying case, 1 CD-ROM syllabus, and CME information.
$1,295.00
IDT742AV
Combo VIDEO/AUDIO Package: Includes 13 DVDs and 2 MP4 digital discs plus 31 audio CDs and 1 MP3 digital disc with carrying case, 1 CD-ROM syllabus, and CME information.
$1,995.00
IDT742ZW
Additional User Package: Includes 1 CD-ROM syllabus and CME information (initial video and/or audio purchase required).
$250.00
 
Special pricing for clinic-wide orders or for group subscriptions/purchases. Minimum order quantities apply for eligible discounts. For further information and pricing estimates, contact Rebecca Sims at 800-633-4743 x3039. For all other sales inquiries, call 1-800-633-4743.
 

Description


The Chicago Infectious Disease Board Review program is designed to prepare physicians-in-training and practicing physicians for the Infectious Disease Sub-specialty Examination of the American Board of Internal Medicine. The program is also intended for physicians who are interested in an intensive, broad-scope review of Infectious Disease topics.

  • The nation’s premier infectious disease board review now exclusively available as a self study
  • Combines lectures, slide presentations and cases
  • An intensive board review presented by a faculty of internationally known experts


 
 

Topics & Speakers


  • Tuberculosis and Nontuberculosis Mycobacteria
    Audrey French, MD
  • Invasive Fungal Infections Parts 1 and 2
    Laurie A. Proia, MD
  • Central Nervous System Infections
  • Diarrhea and GI Syndromes
    Larry J. Goodman, MD
  • Nosocomial Infections
  • Case Presentations 1 & 2
  • Question and Answer Session
    Robert A. Weinstein, MD
  • Infections of Implanted Medical Devices
    and Line Sepsis
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • Evidence-Based Management of Septic Shock
    Dennis Maki, MD
  • HIV
  • Opportunistic Infections
    Kimberly Y. Smith, MD, MPH
  • HIV and Antivirals (HIV, HSV)
    Harold A. Kessler, MD
  • Pharmacology and Q/A
  • Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO)
  • Pox and Bioterrorism
  • Skin and Soft Tissue Infections and
    Toxin Mediated Diseases
  • Malaria and Toxoplasmosis
    Gordon M. Trenholme, MD
  • Transplant
    Staci A. Fischer, MD
  • Leptospira, Lyme and Other Borrelia/Hemorrhagic Fevers, Other Zoonoses and Ectoparasites
    Jeffrey Nelson, MD
  • Clinical Microbiology Review/Diagnostic Microbiology
    Mary Hayden, MD
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    Myron S. Cohen, MD
  • Immunizations
    Beverly E. Sha, MD
  • Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis
  • Endocarditis
    John Segreti, MD
  • Upper Respiratory Infections and Lower Respiratory Infections
    David Schwartz, MD
  • Case Presentations
    David Hines, MD
  • Parasitic Infections
  • Helminths
    Kamal Singh, MD
  • Respiratory Viral Infections
    Michael Lin, MD, MPH
  • Viral Hepatitis
    Toyin Adeyemi, MD
  • White Blood Cell Abnormalities and Immune Deficiencies
    David Pitrak, MD

 
 

Faculty


Course Directors
Gordon M. Trenholme, MD
James R. Lowenstine Professor of Medicine
Director, Section of Infectious Diseases
Rush University Medical Center
Robert A. Weinstein, MD
Chairman, Division of Infectious Diseases
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Professor of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center
CME Course Director
Harold A. Kessler, MD
Professor of Medicine and Immunology/Microbiology
Rush University Medical Center
Associate Director, Section of Infectious Diseases
Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education
Director, Office of Continuing Medical Education
Rush University Medical Center Faculty

Toyin Adeyemi, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County

Audrey French, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County

Larry J. Goodman, MD
President & CEO
Professor of Medicine

Mary K. Hayden, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory

David Hines, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Michael Lin, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine

 

Jeffrey Nelson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Laurie A. Proia, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

David Schwartz, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County

John Segreti, MD
Professor of Medicine

Beverly E. Sha, MD
Professor of Medicine

Kamal Singh, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Clinical Microbiology

Kimberly Y. Smith, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine

Guest Faculty

Myron S. Cohen, MD
J Herbert Bate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and
Immunology, and Public Health; Chief, Division of
Infectious Diseases, Director, UNC Center for Infectious
Diseases, University of North Carolina Med,
Chapel Hill, NC

Staci A. Fischer, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship
Brown Medical School, Providence, RI

Dennis Maki, MD
Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine; Head, Section of
Infectious Disease; Attending Physician, Center for Trauma
and Life Support University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine, Madison, WI

David Pitrak, MD
Professor of Medicine
Infectious Diseases & Global Health
Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago


 
 

Learning Objectives


Upon completion of this CME activity, the participant intends to incorporate the following objectives into their practice of medicine.
  • Utilize appropriate microbiologic diagnostic procedures for the diagnosis of common and uncommon infectious diseases
  • Maintain up-to-date immunization of my patients for all currently recommended adult immunizations
  • Provide my patients traveling to foreign destinations with the United States Public Health Service recommended prophylactic medications and immunizations
  • Initiate antiretroviral therapy in HIV infected patients based upon current recommendations of the Department of Health and Human Services
  • Initiate treatment for suspected sexually transmitted diseases based upon the presenting symptoms and signs
  • Initiate therapy for chronic HBV and HCV infection based upon current recommendations
  • Isolate hospitalized patients suspected of having infection with a microbiologic agent of bioterrorism
  • Treat community and health-care acquired pneumonia with the current IDSA Guidelines recommended antimicrobial agents
  • Prescribe appropriate antimicrobial therapy for patients with suspected sepsis
  • Utilize current recommended guidelines for the treatment of febrile transplant recipients
  • Improve performance on the Infectious Disease certification/re-certification exam

 
 

Accreditation and Designation Statement


Rush University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 33 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Date of original release: November 1, 2010
Date of credit termination: October 31, 2013

CME credit is obtained upon successful completion of a self-assessment examination and activity evaluation. A $30 processing fee must accompany the completed exam and evaluation application.