MER Primary Care Conferences Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Derm ID Ortho Pain Sep 28 – Oct 01, 2026

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+ Target Audience: Internists, Family Medicine Physicians, Dermatologists, Infectious Disease Specialists, Orthopedic Surgeons, Sports Medicine Specialists

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Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Dermatology/Infectious Diseases/Orthopedics/Pain is an exceptional continuing medical education program organized by Medical Education Resources (MER). Held at the InterContinental Crete in Crete, Greece, this conference is structured to provide office-based primary care clinicians with comprehensive, evidence-based updates across four core clinical specialties: infectious diseases, pain management, dermatology, and orthopedics. Through practical, case-oriented lectures and diagnostic frameworks, participants will explore the prompt recognition of skin and soft tissue infections, management of multidrug-resistant respiratory and enteric pathogens, safe opioid and interventional chronic pain strategies, office-based dermatologic differential diagnoses and biopsies, and joint-specific physical examination techniques and interventions for common orthopedic injuries.

Learning Objectives

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

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

• List common causative pathogens for various respiratory tract infections.

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

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

• Identify strategies to overcome the challenges of treating chronic pain.

• Identify pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic options for the management of pain.

• Describe the differential diagnosis of headaches and migraines.

• Design opioid pain management strategies.

• Differentiate between the presentations and causes of atopic, contact (irritant and allergic), and nummular dermatitis.

• Discriminate the diagnostic principles and treatment options for papulosquamous diseases with red, raised bumps.

• Differentiate benign and malignant skin tumors and employ appropriate interoffice procedures.

• Detect pre-cancerous and cancerous skin lesions.

• Diagnose and treat shoulder injuries.

• Diagnose and treat wrist, hand, and finger injuries.

• Describe the anatomy and function of the knee joint.

• Recognize chronic injuries and pain syndromes to the foot and ankle.

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, Family Medicine Physicians, Dermatologists, Infectious Disease Specialists, Orthopedic Surgeons, Sports Medicine Specialists, Pain Medicine Specialists, and Neurologists.

Topics

• Monday, September 28, 2026

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

  • Infectious Diseases: 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)

  • Infectious Diseases: Gastrointestinal Infections & Clostridioides Difficile (Presentation on important enteric pathogens and their recognition, diagnosis and management; special emphasis on Clostridioides difficile colitis and related updates from the ID and infection control literature)

  • Pain: Chronic Pain Management Options for Primary Care (Treatment of common chronic pain conditions including chronic low back pain and neuropathic pain)

  • Pain: Office Procedures for Pain (Behavioral and lifestyle modifications; medications overview; interventional therapies; opioids and cannabinoids overview)

• Tuesday, September 29, 2026

  • Pain: 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)

  • Pain: Opioid Pharmacologic Options in Chronic Pain Management (Overall safety and efficacy; selecting and monitoring patients; pain contracts; regulatory issues; urine drug testing)

  • Infectious Diseases: 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)

  • Dermatology: Dermatitis (Overview of the causes and forms of skin irritants; contact, atopic, irritant, nummular, seborrheic and exfoliative; treatment of blistering, oozing, crusting and flaking; diagnostic principles and management strategies)

  • Dermatology: Papulosquamous Diseases (Diagnostic principles of skin lesions consisting of red or purple papules; psoriasis, lichen planus, pityriasis rosea, lupus erythematosus; discussion of how to tell one scaly rash from another)

• Wednesday, September 30, 2026

  • Dermatology: Benign Skin Tumors (Proper diagnosis and treatment of common benign tumors; biopsies and histopathologic examination; nevi, seborrheic keratosis, keloids, hemangiomas and miscellaneous tumors; when to refer)

  • Dermatology: Premalignant and Malignant Skin Tumors (Recognition of precursors of malignancies; excisional and punch biopsies; actinic keratosis, Bowen’s disease, squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, melanoma and other selected tumors; risk reduction education)

  • Orthopedics: The Shoulder: Anatomy, Common Injuries, and Exam Techniques (Rotator cuff syndrome; impingement, frozen shoulder; subacromial bursitis; bicipital tendonitis; A-C joint disease)

  • Orthopedics: Wrist, Hand, and Fingers (Carpal tunnel, CMC arthritis thumb, ganglion cyst, trigger finger, de Quervain’s disease)

• Thursday, October 1, 2026

  • Orthopedics: The Knee: Anatomy, Common Injuries, and Exam Techniques (ACL, meniscus, MRI; common sports injuries; osteoarthritis and hyaluronan; bursitis: prepatellar, pes anserine; Baker’s cyst; joint injection/X-ray interpretation; pediatrics)

  • Orthopedics: Ankle and Foot (This presentation will address a series of common acute and chronic injuries and pain syndromes to the foot and ankle as they would present in the primary care setting. The focus will be on developing a working differential diagnosis based on the historical mechanism of injury and exam findings)