MER Primary Care Conferences Internal Medicine for Primary Care Allergy & Immuno Cardio Neuro Psych Oct 12-15, 2026

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+ Target Audience: Internists, Primary Care Physicians, Family Physicians, Neurologists, Allergists, Immunologists, Cardiologists, and Psychiatrists

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• Conference Title: Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Allergy & Immunology/Cardiology/Neurology/Psychiatry

• Organizer: Medical Education Resources (MER) – A Non-Profit Organization

• Dates: October 12–15, 2026

• Location: Paris, France – Paris Marriott Opera Ambassador Hotel

Learning Objectives

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

• Utilize history and physical examination to distinguish weakness from non-specific symptoms

• Discuss evidence-based management options for Alzheimer’s disease

• Evaluate weakness and recognize cardinal features of Parkinson’s disease as well as other movement disorders

• Describe the differential diagnosis and treatment options for migraine headaches

• Describe how to efficiently and cost effectively manage patients with asthma, rhinitis, and sinusitis

• Discuss epidemiology, risk factors, and causes of atopic dermatitis

• Outline the management of anaphylactic reactions and indications for immunotherapy

• Describe strategies for rediscovering the joy in the practice of medicine

• Implement lifestyle changes as well as lipid and cholesterol guidelines for the prevention of CAD

• Describe the work-up, risk assessment and test selection of patients with suspected CAD

• Implement treatment strategies reflective of recent guidelines and current evidence based medicine for heart failure

• Describe current diagnostic and treatment approaches to arrhythmias and atrial fibrilation

• Describe symptoms that move depression to plans for suicide

• Recommend appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment for depression

• Discuss mood stabilizing psychosocial and pharmacologic treatments of bipolar disorder as well as frequent co-morbid psychiatric disorders

• Utilize case-based learning to develop treatment plans for psychiatric conditions

Target Audience

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

Best for Internists, Primary Care Physicians, Family Physicians, Neurologists, Allergists, Immunologists, Cardiologists, and Psychiatrists.

Topics

Monday, October 12, 2026

• 7:00 am: Check-In

  • Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.

• 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Neurology: Evaluating Weakness

  • Using the history and physical examination to distinguish weakness from non-specific symptoms; characteristics of neurological diseases that produce weakness; presentations of representative diseases of the nervous system

• 8:30 am – 9:30 am | Neurology: Alzheimer’s & Other Dementias

  • Definition; statistics; neurological changes of normal aging; pathology; etiological theories; vascular dementias; investigations; social issues; symptomatic treatment; research therapies

• 9:30 am – 9:40 am: Coffee Break

• 9:40 am – 10:40 am | Neurology: Parkinson’s Disease & Other Movement Disorders

  • Epidemiology; cardinal features; secondary features; pathology; neurochemistry; differential diagnosis; treatment; complication; other movement disorders; neuroleptic-induced movement disorders; chorea

• 10:40 am – 11:40 am | Allergy & Immuno: Asthma, Allergic Rhinitis, and Sinusitis for Primary Care

  • Lecture focused on gaining a working knowledge of how to efficiently and cost effectively manage patients with asthma, rhinitis, and sinusitis

• 11:40 am – 12:40 pm | Allergy & Immuno: Urticaria, Angioedema, Eczema and Contact Dermatitis

  • Lecture focused on gaining a working knowledge of how to efficiently and cost effectively manage patients with various atopic skin conditions

• 12:40 pm: Session Adjourns

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• 7:00 am: Arrival

  • Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.

• 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Allergy & Immuno: Food Allergies and Hymenoptera Allergies

  • Primary care focused discussion of food and venom allergies including gaining a working knowledge of how to efficiently and cost effectively manage patients with hymenoptera hypersensitivity

• 8:30 am – 9:30 am | Allergy & Immuno: Burnout and Physician Wellness

  • Describe the signs and symptoms of burnout in healthcare; Articulate the causes of the epidemic of burnout; Describe strategies for rediscovering the joy in the practice of medicine

• 9:30 am – 9:40 am: Coffee Break

• 9:40 am – 10:40 am | Neurology: Headaches & Migraines

  • Basic headache mechanisms; headache history: characteristics, precipitating factors, medical conditions; migraine: common tension, classic, treatment, complicated, cluster, sinus; trigeminal neuralgia; Giant Cell Arteritis; brain tumor; subarachnoid hemorrhage; emergency room treatment

• 10:40 am – 11:40 am | Cardiology: Primary Prevention of Cardiometabolic CVD

  • Definitions; AHA/ACC and other lipid guidelines updates; HDL Cholesterol: The good cholesterol?; Metabolic syndrome and/or obesity; Who needs treatment and how much; The role of lifestyle changes, exercise and cardiac rehabilitation; Drug therapy updates; Risk calculation; Role of pooled equations for risk estimates

• 11:40 am – 12:40 pm | Cardiology: Work-up of Patients with Suspected CAD

  • Risk factor evaluation and risk assessment models; 2021 ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guidelines; Test selection including ECG, echo, nuclear and newer imaging modalities (including discussion of appropriate use criteria–AUC); The usefulness of CT scanning; The role of bio markers and EBCT; Suspected CAD in special populations (women, diabetics, the elderly)

• 12:40 pm: Session Adjourns

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• 7:00 am: Arrival

  • Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.

• 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Cardiology: Heart Failure

  • Etiologies and stages of heart failure; ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guidelines; Heart failure with reduced EF (HFrEF) and heart failure with preserved EF (HFpEF); Determining patients for referral using biomarkers, eg NT Pro BNP; Treatment options: ACE inhibitors, ARBs, ARNI, beta blockers, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, SGLT2i; The role of devices (ICD and/or CRT) in treatment and antiplatelet drugs; Issues related to the hospitalized patient with acute decompensated heart failure and readmissions

• 8:30 am – 9:30 am | Cardiology: Arrhythmias

  • Types and symptoms of arrhythmias; Approach to the patient: when to treat, when to refer, when to admit; Evaluation of the patient with palpitations; Atrial fibrilation: the use of anticoagulants indications, CVA risk scores, warfarin vs newer oral anticoagulants, controlling heart rate vs rhythm; Ventricular and other arrhythmias: when are they serious

• 9:30 am – 9:40 am: Coffee Break

• 9:40 am – 10:40 am | Psychiatry: Depression and Suicide

  • Assessment of depressive symptoms in adults; screening instruments; differential diagnosis of depression. Assessment and mitigation of suicide risk; the safety plan

• 10:40 am – 11:40 am | Psychiatry: Pharmacology for Major Depression

  • Pharmacologic treatment options and potential adverse effects. Approaches to treatment resistant depression and rational polypharmacy; nontraditional therapies

• 11:40 am: Session Adjourns

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• 7:00 am: Arrival

  • Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.

• 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Psychiatry: Bipolar Spectrum Disorders

  • Bipolar spectrum disorders in adults as compared to youth; Comprehensive history-taking; Differential diagnosis; Co-occurring conditions. Phase specific treatment considerations and medication interventions

• 8:30 am – 9:30 am | Psychiatry: Catatonia and More for Primary Care

  • Clinical signs & symptoms of catatonia; Pathophysiology and genetics; Associated morbidity and mortality risks; Diagnosis; Catatonia specific rating scales; Psychiatric and medical differential diagnosis; Medical workup and treatment options

• 9:30 am: Conference Adjourns