The following courses provide useful, evidence-based information on Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases. Please contact us if you have any additional trainings you recommend.
Courses for continuing education credit
CDC General Pages: Tickborne Disease Continuing Education
AMA/CDC: Caring for Patients With Prolonged Symptoms and Concerns About Lyme Disease [full toolkit]
CDC Four-part Lyme disease training:
- Module 1: Introduction to Tickborne Diseases and Disease Prevention
- Module 2: Lyme Disease Clinical Overview
- Module 3: Lyme Disease Testing and Diagnosis
- Module 4: Lyme Disease Treatment and Management
CDC: Lyme Disease Updates and New Educational Tools for Clinicians
CDC: Diagnosis and Treatment of Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasmosis
CDC: Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasmosis among Transfusion and Transplant Recipients in the United States
CDC: Continuing education on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and other tickborne infections
CDC: Rocky Mountain spotted fever: Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment for Healthcare Providers
CDC: Viral Tickborne Disease Training
UPMC: 2023 Lyme Disease Update for Physicians
Medscape: Tick Talk: Recognizing and Diagnosing Lyme Disease
Medscape: Tick Talk: Treating and Managing Lyme Disease
MedLink: Lyme disease: controversial issues
MedLink: Lyme Disease
StatPearls: Lyme Disease
StatPearls: Lyme Carditis
Cleveland Clinic: Appropriate laboratory testing in Lyme disease
Mayo Clinic: Lyme Disease: When to Test, When to Treat
CDC: Ecology and Epidemiology of Tickborne Pathogens, Washington, USA, 2011–2016
AAP: Tickborne Diseases in Children in the United States
Pri-Med: Lyme and Other Tickborne Disease: Clinical Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Infections with Tickborne Pathogens after Tick Bite, Austria, 2015–2018
Medscape: Does Lyme Disease Cause Psychiatric Illness? [LymeScience note: The answer is no.]
CDC: Relapsing Fever Infection Manifesting as Aseptic Meningitis, Texas, USA
Mayo Clinic: Lyme Disease: When to Test, When to Treat
Other lectures, courses, and materials
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and American College of Rheumatology (ACR): 2020 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease
LymeScience: Scientific consensus page includes links to clinical practice guidelines around the world
LymeScience: Papers on chronic Lyme disease
LymeScience: Good journalism on chronic Lyme pseudoscience
LymeScience: Doctor and scientist commentaries on “Chronic Lyme”
Minnesota Medicine article: Dispelling the Chronic Lyme Disease Myth
LymeScience: Experts review “Chronic Lyme Disease”
Dr. Harriet Hall: Free course on Science-based Medicine (Videos, course guide)
Total EM Podcast: Tickborne Illnesses with Michelle Perkins (Note that this podcast is informative but PCR is not typically recommended)
PediaCast CME at Nationwide Children’s: Lyme Disease
CDC: Little Bite, Big Disease: Recognizing and Managing Tickborne Illnesses
CDC: A Leopard without Spots: Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
More useful sites:
CDC: Lyme disease resources for health care providers
American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF)
U of Rhode Island TickEncounter Resource Center
Lyme MCW (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Sources of quiz questions
Edson RS, et al. Clinical pearls in infectious diseases. Mayo Clin Proc. 2011.
Lantos PM, et al. Lyme Disease Serology. JAMA. 2016.
Sources not recommended
LymeScience recommends avoiding courses affiliated with practitioners of pseudoscience, including those who advertise themselves as “Lyme literate”, “integrative”, “functional”, “alternative”, “complementary”, “naturopathic”, and “holistic”.
LymeScience does not recommend materials associated with the following:
- ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society)
- ILADEF (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation)
- Partnership for Tick-borne Diseases Education (LymeCME.info) and any materials by Elizabeth Maloney
- Lyme Disease Association
- Columbia University Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center
- LymeDisease.org and MyLymeData
- Global Lyme Alliance
- Bay Area Lyme Foundation (and associated entities Center for Lyme Action, Lyme Disease Biobank, and LaureL STEM foundation)
- Stand4Lyme
- LivLyme Foundation
- The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, TicksSuck.org, LymeX Innovation Accelerator, Cohen Center for Recovery From Complex Chronic Illnesses (CoRE), Cohen Center for Health and Recovery from Tick-Borne Diseases
- Invisible International and the Montecalvo Platform for Tick-Borne Illness Medical Education
- Tick Wise Education
- LymeTV and Tick JEDI
- Lyme Education and Awareness Foundation (LEAF)
- Michigan Lyme Disease Association
- Institute for Functional Medicine
- American Academy of Environmental Medicine
- American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine
- American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M)
- PA Lyme Resource Network
- NatCapLyme- The National Capital Lyme Disease Association
- Infection and Autoimmunity Research and Education Foundation (IAREF)
- Any other so-called Lyme patient group (other than this web site, the ALDF, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Science-Based Support)
- Trainings sponsored by any chronic Lyme pseudoscience group
- Trainings that feature practitioners of quackery, including those who advertise as functional, integrative, alternative, naturopathic, chiropractic, and “Lyme literate”
- other unreliable sources listed near the bottom of this post
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Updated August 6, 2024