MER Primary Care Conferences Infectious Diseases for Primary Care May 22-24, 2026

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1. Overview

The “Infectious Diseases for Primary Care” is a conference organized by Medical Education Resources (MER), a non-profit organization. The event is scheduled to take place from May 22-24, 2026, at Caesars Palace Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV.

2. Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to:

• Recognize risk factors, diagnostic indicators and clinical features for osteomyelitis and joint infections.

• Describe the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of common CNS infectious disease syndromes.

• List goals of an antimicrobial stewardship program and strategies for antimicrobial treatment.

• Describe evaluation strategies for infections in immunocompromised hosts.

• Discuss emerging infectious diseases including resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases, zoonoses, and diseases related to animal exposures.

• Evaluate the severity of diarrhea and evaluate the need for treatment.

• List common causative pathogens for various respiratory tract infections.

• Identify patients at risk for healthcare-associated infections.

• Review epidemiology and microbiology of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI).

• Recommend appropriate immunizations based on patient specific risk factors.

• Diagnose and manage genitourinary infections.

• Discuss the approach to a febrile patients with potentially life-threatening diseases in both hospital and clinic-associated settings.

3. Target Audience

This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals with updates in primary care medicine.

4. Topics

• Bone and Joint Infections: Presentation on the most important syndromes and pathogens involved in bone and joint infections – e.g., osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, bursitis, prosthetic joint infections and others – including related diagnostic, therapeutic and prevention pearls.

• Central Nervous System Infections: Presentation on common CNS infectious disease presentation and syndromes including basic epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment strategies.

• Antimicrobial Stewardship and Multidrug Resistance: Definition of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP); Concepts of the antimicrobial stewardship program; Four goals of antimicrobial stewardship; Most recent additions to the antimicrobial armamentarium.

• Emerging Infectious Diseases: Novel influenza viruses, resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases, zoonoses and disease related to animal exposures (including vectors such as mosquitoes that bear west Nile virus and dengue), bioterrorism and food/waterborne illness.

• Gastrointestinal Infections & Clostridiodes Difficile: Presentation on important enteric pathogens and their recognition, diagnosis and management; special emphasis on clostridiodes difficile colitis and related updates from the ID and infection control literature.

• Respiratory Tract Infections: Discussion highlighting critical points regarding the diagnosis and management of pneumonia and bronchitis – with a focus on the impact of multidrug resistant pathogens.

• Healthcare-Associated Infections: Presentation on important pathogens in the healthcare setting and related clinical, epidemiologic and infection control information (please note that the discussion on blood-borne pathogens will NOT suffice for standard hospital CME requirements for BBP training).

• Infectious Diseases in the Special Host: Case-based interactive discussion involving important infectious disease syndromes in three special hosts: the diabetic patient, the HIV/AIDS patient and the pregnant woman.

• Skin & Soft Tissue Infections: Presentation on important skin and soft-tissue infections and their prompt recognition, emphasizing evaluation and management strategies.

• Immunizations: Presentation on key vaccine preventable diseases and their presentations with an emphasis on the latest recommendations including newest schedules, safety and efficacy information.

• Genitourinary Infections: Presentation on a relevant and clinically practical approach to the patient with genitourinary complaints focusing on the latest guidelines for the range of urinary tract infections and highlights of selected and important sexually-transmitted disease syndromes.

• Ambulatory Care Infectious Disease Emergencies: Case-based interactive discussion around exemplary cases that addresses key diagnostic and management strategies for potentially emergent outpatient infectious disease challenges.