The Comprehensive Vaccine Education Program - From Training to Practice is a combined educational offering to help combat vaccine misinformation and address vaccine hesitancy in two ways.

• Enhancing vaccine knowledge and confidence in having discussions with patients and parents through a web-based education curriculum (CoVER)
  
  
• Enhancing access for medical providers to reliable, up-to-date and accurate vaccine information through The Vaccine Handbook: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, also known as The Purple Book. Everyone from physicians and advanced practice providers on the front lines to trainees, nurses, and pharmacists, as well as the patients and parents of patients who receive them, will find value in this resource. To access The Purple Book: https://books.pcimed.com/view/vaccine-handbook.
  
  

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This module focuses on various rashes associated with vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). Rash identification is important because:

• Rashes characteristic of a certain VPD help you make a timely diagnosis, which, in turn, can prevent disease spread.
• Vaccines have substantially decreased the incidence of VPDs, but not eliminated them. Your level of suspicion must remain high.

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this module, learners will be able to:

1. Identify the characteristic rashes associated with VPDs, including:
   1. Pattern of spread
   2. Associated symptoms, e.g., pruritis, blistering, mucosal involvement 
   3. Rash timing in relation to other clinical symptoms of disease
2. Distinguish rashes associated with VPDs from other common rashes.
3. Recognize rashes that need medical attention.