MER Primary Care Conferences Geriatric Medicine for Primary Care Cardio ID Sleep Mar 13-15, 2026

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+ Target Audience: primary care physicians, cardiologists, infectious diseases physicians, sleep medicine physicians

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1. Overview

The “Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Cardiology/Infectious Diseases/Sleep Medicine” is a conference organized by Medical Education Resources (MER), a non-profit organization. The event is scheduled to take place from March 13-15, 2026, at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, CA.

2. Learning Objectives

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

• List pharmacologic options for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation and the benefits of each

• Discuss best practices for reading and interpreting EKGs

• Perform a cardiovascular workup

• Recognize and manage the unique challenges of the geriatric heart failure population

• Discuss the basic mechanisms of sleep and circadian rhythm disorders

• Develop a therapeutic plan related to common complaints surrounding insomnia and restless legs syndrome

• Review therapeutic options for excessive sleepiness and obstructive sleep apnea

• Describe medical issues surrounding RLS, parasomnias and other special sleep issues

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

• List common causative pathogens for various respiratory tract infections

• Diagnose and manage genitourinary infections

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

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

Cardiology

• Atrial Fibrillation: Management, Monitoring, and Stroke Prevention: New methods of detection, rate vs rhythm control, new options for stroke prevention.

• Interactive EKG Refresher: A case-based refresher including challenging EKG readings.

• Cardiac Imaging for Primary Care: A Practical Case-based Update: The evaluation of a cardiac patient and appropriate use of imaging and laboratory tests to improve diagnosis and treatment.

• Heart Failure Update with a Focus on the Elderly: Diagnostic and management challenges in the geriatric population, new therapies for systolic HF, home-based management, end-of-life care for a CHF patient.

Sleep Medicine

• How Sleep Works: The drivers of sleep and integration of how these drivers can be used to improve sleep; Basic principles of sleep drive, circadian rhythm and sleep associations will be discussed; Related to cases to highlight these principles.

• Approach to the Patient Who Can’t Sleep: Discussion of Insomnia, one of the most common complaints related to sleep; Determination of the underlying contributors; Review of a straight forward way to approach the complaint of inability to sleep and construction of therapeutic plans directed at the underlying issues; Common presentations of insomnia and the approach to restless legs syndrome.

• Evaluation and Treatment of the Excessively Sleepy Patient: Daytime sleepiness impairs approximately 15% of adults from getting the most out of their day; Review of the common and less common causes of daytime sleepiness including, behavioral insufficient sleep, narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia and sleep related breathing disorders; The approach and therapeutic options for each disorder.

• Restless Legs Syndrome and Other Nocturnal Events: This lecture will review the recent changes in our understanding and approach to Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep including newer treatment paradigms. In addition, the lecture will review the approach to evaluating and treating other nocturnal events.

Infectious Diseases

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.