MCE Conferences Primary Care Update Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2025

This conference is designed to provide primary care practitioners with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues in Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The discussion-based format of the conference will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, and hands-on workshops. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates in Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine, with the goal of enhancing the knowledge-base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program will help you diagnose, treat, and prescribe the most effective courses of treatment, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.
Target Audience
All Physicians and other Healthcare Professionals seeking clinical information about issues in Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Speakers
Our presenting national faculty speakers make it their professional goals to enhance the training of primary care clinicians. This Continuing Medical Education program promises to help you learn the most current, best medicine, and techniques for making the diagnosis easier during a 20-minute office visit.
Objectives

Apply guidelines in the management of children with head injury (including when to order a head CT) and Return-to-Play/Return-to-Learn decisions.

Summarize which conditions can be identified by each step of a thorough pediatric eye exam and when to refer.

Use rapid decision-making for children with signs of surgical emergencies; choose appropriate diagnostics and avoid delays.

Improve diagnostic accuracy using the SPIT differential and Four-Stops medical decision-making tools, prioritizing high-risk and common conditions.

Describe implicit bias and its impact on clinical decisions, patient interactions, and outcomes.

Discuss age-related factors complicating decisions in older adults and recognize emergencies in cancer patients and elder abuse.

Recognize barriers to clinical reasoning and understand how AI can help (and its limitations, including bias/hallucinations).

 
+ Topics:

Concussions & Head Injury in Children: Return-to-Play/Return-to-Learn; imaging utilization.

Pediatric Eye Emergencies: Exam steps; infections/trauma; periorbital vs orbital infections; referral thresholds.

Minimizing Medical Error: Implicit bias; common cognitive errors; SPIT & Four-Stops tools.

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (Parts 1 & 2): Benign complaints (sore throat, musculoskeletal pain, headache) that may hide serious disease; structured evaluation using SPIT/Four-Stops.

Evaluating High-Risk Patients: Older adults’ pitfalls; emergencies in oncology patients; recognizing elder abuse.

AI as a Partner in Clinical Reasoning: Real-case use, benefits, challenges, limitations.

The Febrile Young Infant (<8 weeks): Current evidence; decade of practice evolution; AAP guidance.Does My Patient Need Surgery? (Pediatrics): Rapid recognition; appropriate tests; preventing diagnostic delay.Visual Diagnosis (Pediatrics): Pattern recognition; key history questions.Travel-Related Illnesses: Risk factors; malaria workup; prevention strategies.In-Flight Emergencies: Good Samaritan law; clinician obligations; types and incidence of events.