Neurological Emergencies: Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians 2025

Stroke. Headache. Back Pain. ICH. Seizures. HINTS, Dizziness, and NIHSS Workshops. Brain and Spine Imaging Workshops. Small Group Case Discussions.

Learn with Harvard Medical School professors, and world-renowned neurological emergency experts, Drs. Jonathan Edlow and Joshua Goldstein, as they take a version of their lauded annual course to Europe for the third time!

REGISTRATION

Course Description

Neurological Emergencies is a 2-day, 16-hour course that provides updates, best practices, and new algorithms to diagnose neurological symptoms, quickly identify a neurological emergency, and take appropriate measures to optimize outcomes for high-risk patients. The goal of this course is to prepare clinicians to quickly and accurately diagnose and provide appropriate care for patients with neurological emergencies, including:

• High-frequency symptoms: Headache, back pain, dizziness, diplopia, seizure, weakness, and coma
• High-risk conditions: Acute ischemic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, and intracerebral hemorrhage 

Neurological Emergencies is delivered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Articulate how to perform bedside diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers in the dizzy patient
• Use focused history and physical to determine which patients with headache or minor head injury require neuroimaging or further workup
• Use clinical “red flags” to avoid misdiagnosis of cord and cauda equina compression in patients with back pain 
• Discuss how to rapidly evaluate patients with stroke symptoms for intravenous and intraarterial revascularization therapy 

METHODOLOGY

The sessions will provide current best practices in diagnosis and treatment, improving learner competence by providing current best evidence for evaluation of neurologic symptoms and current best practices for using known therapies and treatments. Many of the didactic sessions are rich with images and video clips to better communicate ideas and concepts.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?

This course will primarily benefit physicians, nurses, and advanced practice providers from emergency medicine, neurology, primary care, critical care, hospital medicine, urgent care, and internal/family medicine.

CERTIFICATES & CME CREDIT

Participants are eligible for the following:

• Certificate of Program Completion from The Institute for Emergency Department Clinical Quality Improvement, based at The Department of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, as well as Massachusetts General Hospital.
• An application has been submitted to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.