The Comprehensive Clinical Update and Board Review
Harvard Heat Emergencies: Prevention, Diagnosis and Management 2025 is a cutting-edge, evidence-based virtual CME course designed to equip clinicians with the essential knowledge and skills to recognize, diagnose, and treat heat-related illnesses. This 4 half-day program integrates the latest science of thermal physiology, evolving epidemiology, and real-world management strategies for heat stroke, heat exhaustion, and heat syncope. Participants will also gain practical tools for prevention at both the individual and population levels, while learning to address at-risk groups, pharmacological interactions, and system-level preparedness—all taught by leading experts in emergency medicine, public health, and environmental health sciences.
* Date of Original Release: June 16, 18, 23, 25, 2025
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Explain the epidemiology of heat related illness and associated disease processes.
- Recognize the thermal physiology underlying clinical presentations of heat related illness.
- Create a differential diagnosis and develop comprehensive, evidence-based management plans for all forms of heat related illness, including heat exhaustion, heat syncope, and heat stroke.
- Describe groups at increased risk for heat related illness and develop anticipatory guidance and prevention plans.
- Discuss the pharmacological interactions with heat-related illness and develop plans for protecting patients. Identify the resources needed and best steps to take for preparedness, diagnosis and treatment of heat related illness during event medicine and in low-resources settings.
- Explain the impacts of heat across organ systems, including impacts on mental health and behavioral health and kidney disease.
- Apply preventive solutions for heat related illness including from a community based, public health, and health systems approach.
HARVARD HEAT EMERGENCIES: PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMNENT 2025
