Bacillus Calmette-Gurin (BCG): Clinical Basics for Healthcare Professionals

What you'll learn

Course overview

Tuberculosis killed 1.23 million people in 2024 and remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious pathogen worldwide. This course equips frontline clinicians with the practical knowledge to identify TB risk, select and interpret the right diagnostic tests, apply current preventive treatment guidelines, and recognize when drug resistance requires specialist referral. Clinical recommendations are grounded in WHO and CDC guidance; where content draws on modeling studies or preprint evidence, this is identified in the text. Frontline clinicians regularly encounter patients at elevated TB risk, including foreign-born individuals with undetected LTBI, patients starting immunosuppressive biologics, and people living with HIV, yet most receive limited TB education beyond initial training. Gaps persist in test selection, TST interpretation in BCG-vaccinated patients, preventive treatment regimen choice, and early recognition of drug resistance. This course addresses those gaps directly.