MER Cardiology & Pulmonology for Primary Care 2025 (The Omni Grove Park Inn)
CARDIOLOGY & PULMONOLOGY FOR PRIMARY CARE
Asheville, NC – The Omni Grove Park Inn
May 9 – 11, 2025
Agenda & Learning Objectives
The conference aimed to provide primary care practitioners with up-to-date, evidence-based information on cardiology and pulmonology topics commonly encountered in clinical practice. The sessions were designed to enhance clinical decision-making and patient care strategies
Target Audience
This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals
with updates in primary care medicine
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to:
- – Describe the work-up, risk assessment and test selection of patients with suspected CAD
- – Describe current diagnostic approaches and the role of drug therapy to the patient with acute chest
pain - – Describe current diagnostic and treatment approaches to arrhythmias and atrial fibrilation
- – Utilize case-based learning to develop treatment plans for cardiovascular conditions
- – Diagnose and manage patients with asthma
- – Design treatment strategies reflective of current evidence-based medicine for common respiratory
infections - – Describe the current therapeutic management of COPD
- – Discuss diagnosis and screening strategies as well as treatment plans for lung nodules and lung
cancer - – Implement treatment strategies reflective of recent guidelines and current evidence based medicine
for heart failure - – Perform a cardiovascular workup
- – Explain current concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension
- – Discuss strategies to diagnose and treat aortic stenosis and mitral valve disease in the primary care
setting