Fridays at the University Infectious Disease Day – May 12, 2023

This session will be online only.

Paid registration also provides access to the recording and resources post event. All recordings will be available until August 31, 2023.

Agenda

0820 Welcome

0830  Office Treatment of Syphilis – Yoav Keynan, MD. PhD

0920 A Review of Antiviral Treatments for SARS-CoV-2 – Eric Bow, MD., MSc., D.Bacteriol., FRCPC

1010  Cumulative Pre-Travel Health Risk Assessment – Pierre Plourde, M.D., FRCPC

1130 Stretch Break

1200 Global Vaccines and Vaccinations: The Science vs The Anti-Science – Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, DSc (hon), FASTMH, FAAP 

1250 Febrile Neutropenic Cancer Patients in the Community – Eric Bow, MD., MSc., D.Bacteriol., FRCPC

1320 Closing

Objectives

• Participants will understand the various stages of syphilis and be able to describe appropriate treatment (Medical Expert, Communicator)
• Participants will be updated on current treatments for SARS-CoV-2 and understand their uses and shortcomings (Medical Expert, Communicator)
• Participants will be able to initiate a general pre-travel assessment of their patients and be aware of resources to help where there are knowledge gaps (Collaborator, Medical Expert)
• Participants will learn where the anti-vaccine movement misleads patients in their quest for knowledge and how participants can give patients the resources to make informed decisions (Communicator, Collaborator, Health Advocate)
• Participants will become aware of how to prescribe responsibly so as to minimize the risk of antibacterial (and other) resistance (Collaborator, Medical Expert)

Download the Printable Fridays ID Agenda Here

Registration

Physicians: $175
Other health professionals: $75
Residents/students: $30

This event is available via livestream. You will be emailed connection information prior to the event.

Only paid registrants can receive credits and access speakers’ presentations post-event.

Study Credits

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for up to 4.5 Mainpro+ credits.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for a maximum of 4.5 hours.

Participants should only claim credit for the actual number of hours attended.

The University of Manitoba CPD Medicine Program is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME).

Per CPD Medicine policy, the department requires any refund or cancelation request to be submitted in writing up to 14 days before an event. A $50 administrative fee will be withheld to cover transaction and administrative costs. Refund or cancelation requests made less than 14 days before an event may be considered on a case-by-case basis