Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2026

1. 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 Session