Best Practices for Catching up on Herpes Zoster (HZ) Vaccination in Primary Care

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Mainpro+

25 min

Infectious Disease

0.25 Credits

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Course Description

Clinicians play an important role in educating patients about Herpes Zoster (HZ) and by administering appropriate vaccines. The goal of this 25-minute Expert Brief video is to help clinicians identify individuals at high risk of HZ and its associated complications and to discuss strategies to implement NACI recommendations and to optimize HZ catch-up immunizations.

This Video Expert Brief has been supported by educational funding from GSK Grant.

Course Details

Expiry Date: 2023-11-27

Professions: Physician

Faculty

Angel Chu, CCFP, MHSc, FRCPC, FCFP, NCMP

Lecia Buys, MD

James Kim, MD, CCFP, MBBCh, PgDip

Arthur Vasquez, MD

Accreditation

This Self-Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 0.25 Mainpro+ Credits. 

Cert+ Program ID#: 198439

Learning Objective(s)

Upon completion of this expert brief, participants will be better able to:

  • Identify individuals who are at high risk of herpes zoster (HZ) and HZ complications
  • Implement NACI recommendations for HZ vaccination in practice
  • Apply Best Practices in “catching-up” HZ immunizations
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