MER Infectious Diseases for Primary Care 2025 ( Bellagio Hotel and Casino)

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
• Recommend appropriate immunizations based on patient specific risk factors
• Discuss the approach to a febrile patients with potentially life-threatening diseases in both hospital and clinic-associated settings
• Diagnose and manage genitourinary infections
• 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)
• 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