Enhance Inpatient Care with Online Hospital Medicine CME

Led by Robert M. Wachter, MD, UCSF’s top teachers and selected guest faculty deliver a focused review of the clinical issues most relevant to hospitalists and those who care for inpatients — broad content in critical care, perioperative care, radiology, hospital neurology, cardiology, GI, diabetes, hematology, oncology, nephrology, infectious diseases, and more.

Management of the Hospitalized Patient is an online CME course aimed at enhancing your diagnostic and management skills, while highlighting recent advances and current controversies. Continuing medical education topics include:

• Pearls in palliative care and cardiology
• Tough cases and controversies in medical consultation
• Patient management with kidney failure, liver disease, cancer, stroke, etc.
• Neurological emergencies
• And more…

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Improve diagnosis of common inpatient clinical presentations
• Perform an evidence-based work-up for common inpatient clinical presentations
• Apply modern therapeutic approaches to common inpatient disorders
• More effectively respond to patients’ questions in hospital medicine using the latest clinical literature

Intended Audience

This activity was designed for hospitalists and other clinicians who care for inpatients.

TOPICS / SPEAKERS

1. Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Liver Disease - Jin Ge, MD, MBA
2. Updates in Thrombosis and Anticoagulation - Tracy Minichiello, MD
3. Update in Sepsis and Shock - Lekshmi Santhosh, MD
4. Common Hospital Consults in Infectious Disease - Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD
5. Cardiology Pearls for the Hospitalist - Lucas Zier, MD
6. Non-Covid Respiratory Viruses (Flu, RSV, etc.) - Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD
7. Clinical Problem-Solving Exercise - Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD
8. Palliative Care Pearls - Steven Z. Pantilat, MD
9. Current Controversies in Medical Consultation - H. Quinny Cheng, MD
10. Management of Diabetes in the Hospital - Sarah Kim, MD
11. Cardiac and Pulmonary Risk Assessment in the Surgical Patient - H. Quinny Cheng, MD
12. Managing Common Problems in Inpatients with Cancer - Sam Brondfield, MD, MA
13. Approaching the Hospitalized Patient with Opiate Use Disorder - Soraya Azari, MD
14. Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Heart Failure - Jonathan Davis, MD
15. The New Artificial Intelligence – Implications for Hospital Medicine - Sara Murray, MD, MAS
16. Management of the Patient with Acute Kidney Injury - Christopher Carlos, MD
17. Hospital at Home – What Hospitalists Need to Know - Michael Maniaci, MD
18. The Year in Review in Hospital Medicine - Bradley A. Sharpe, MD and Bradley Monash, MD

Date of Original Release: December 15, 2023
Date Credits Expire: November 30, 2026
Estimated Time to Complete: 16.75 hours