The following courses provide useful, evidence-based information on Lyme disease. Please contact us if you have any additional trainings you recommend.
Courses for continuing education credit
Cleveland Clinic: Appropriate laboratory testing in Lyme disease
Mayo Clinic: Lyme Disease: When to Test, When to Treat
American College of Physicians: Lyme disease course
CDC: Continuing education on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and other tickborne infections
CDC: A Leopard without Spots: Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
The American Journal of Nursing: CE: Lyme Disease: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention.
CDC: Ecology and Epidemiology of Tickborne Pathogens, Washington, USA, 2011–2016
AAP: Tickborne Diseases in Children in the United States
Other lectures, courses, and materials
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
Web addendum to A Critical Appraisal of “Chronic Lyme Disease”: Advice to Clinicians
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
The National Association of School Nurses: Tick-borne Illness: Prevention, Assessment and Care
Pediatric Care Online: Tick-borne Infections
CDC: Little Bite, Big Disease: Recognizing and Managing Tickborne Illnesses.
More useful sites:
CDC: Lyme disease information for health care providers
American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF)
U of Rhode Island TickEncounter Resource Center
Lyme MCW (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Sources not recommended
LymeScience recommends avoiding courses affiliated with practitioners of pseudoscience, including those who advertise themselves as “Lyme literate”, “integrative”, “functional”, “alternative”, “complementary”, and “holistic”.
LymeScience does not recommend materials associated with the following organizations:
- ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society)
- ILADEF (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation)
- Partnership for Tick-borne Diseases Education (LymeCME.info)
- Lyme Disease Association
- Columbia University Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center
- LymeDisease.org and MyLymeData
- Global Lyme Alliance
- Bay Area Lyme Foundation
- Stand4Lyme
- LivLyme Foundation
- 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
- Any other so-called Lyme patient group (other than this web site, the ALDF, Lyme for the Scientifically Literate, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Science-Based Support)
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