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 febrile patients with potentially life-threatening diseases in both hospital and clinic-associated settings

✅ Diagnose and manage genitourinary infections

✅ Discuss emerging infectious diseases, including the 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 the goals of an antimicrobial stewardship program and strategies for antimicrobial treatment

✅Describe evaluation strategies for infections in immunocompromised hosts

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