Emerging infectious diseases: from clinical recognition to outbreak response

Event Description

This postgraduate course provides a practical, clinically focused approach to recognising, diagnosing, and managing emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Through expert-led sessions, interactive case discussions, and outbreak simulations, participants will explore emerging threats, diagnostic challenges, infection prevention, and healthcare preparedness. Particular emphasis will be placed on clinical decision-making under uncertainty, One Health approaches, epidemic intelligence, and coordinated outbreak response.

Intended audience

This course is designed for infectious disease physicians, clinical microbiologists, virologists, internists, emergency medicine physicians, intensivists, paediatric infectious disease specialists, infection prevention and control professionals, public health physicians, and epidemiologists. It is also suitable for trainees and fellows in infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, and related disciplines involved in the recognition, management, and prevention of emerging infectious diseases.

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Recognise clinical and epidemiological warning signs of emerging, re-emerging, and high-consequence infectious diseases.
• Obtain structured travel, exposure, occupational, animal-contact, and epidemiological histories to support clinical risk assessment.
• Develop prioritised differential diagnoses for unexplained febrile illnesses, returning travellers, and unusual infectious syndromes.
• Identify patients requiring immediate isolation, urgent diagnostic testing, specialist consultation, or public health notification.
• Select appropriate diagnostic investigations and specimens, and interpret microbiological results considering test performance, timing, biosafety, and clinical context.
• Recognise selected emerging infectious threats and initiate appropriate clinical management and infection prevention measures.
• Integrate One Health perspectives and multidisciplinary collaboration into clinical risk assessment and outbreak management.
• Interpret epidemic intelligence signals and assess their implications for clinical practice and healthcare preparedness.
• Apply principles of hospital preparedness, vaccination, risk communication, and coordinated outbreak response.
• Communicate diagnostic uncertainty and evolving evidence effectively to patients, healthcare professionals, and public health authorities.
• Adapt clinical and organisational decisions as new evidence emerges during an evolving infectious disease threat.

Course coordinator

Aleksandra Barac, Serbia

Organisers

ESCMID, Emerging Infections Subcommittee

Accreditation

The ESCMID office will apply for EACCME accreditation. 
Each participant can only receive the number of credits according to actual participation in the event and upon completion of the feedback survey.

Certification

Course organisers will monitor attendance. Participants are required to attend at least 70% of live sessions to be eligible to receive a certificate.

Course Time Zone

All ESCMID online courses are based on Central European Time (CET) and Central European Summer Time (CEST).

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