Live Courses

Rheumatology Update for the Clinician is designed to provide rheumatologist and primary care physicians with up-to-date information on how to recognize, diagnose, treat and follow common rheumatologic conditions. Distinguished faculty will give didactic lectures on disease-specific topics including: the diagnosis and treatment of RA, TSA, gout, lupus athletic injuries and more. An in-depth exploration of autoimmunity will be presented. The educational format includes case studies and panel discu...

Registration at these pre-conference workshops includes a discount code for registration at DFCON 2025. A code for the discount will be included in the registration confirmation email. Discount codes may not be applied after the fact if you registered for DFCON before the pre-conference workshop.

To register for the DFCON 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop, please click here.Please note after October 17, 2025, online registration will close. Registration after this date may be completed on-site at the conference starting October 23, 2025. 

The Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation for Practicing Intensivists and APPs Course will be an in-person, two-and-a-half-day course. The curriculum is founded in pulmonary physiology as it applies to mechanical ventilation including Ohm’s Law, the equation of motion, the natural decay equation and the use of the time constant. The course focuses on understanding normal waveforms and recognition and management of common clinically consequential ventilator asynchronies. The educational content ...