Conferences of Interest

As hospital medicine is a broad and diverse topic, continuing medical education (CME) and training opportunities continue to expand for hospitalists. SHM compiles an ongoing list of recommended, hospital medicine-specific programs that we find to be of value to our members. The CME opportunities listed below are sponsored by other organizations.

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With the growth of the hospital medicine specialty, education and training opportunities continue to expand for hospitalists. In addition to SHM's conferences, various organizations host CME events that are relevant to our membership. Review the list below of upcoming SHM conferences of interest.
For a full listing of SHM-endorsed meetings, from local chapters to national conferences, visit the Event Calendar on the Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX).

Heartland Hospital Medicine Conference

August 22-23, 2024 | Hyatt Regency Lexington, Lexington, KY

The University of Kentucky Division of Hospital Medicine will be hosting the annual Heartland Hospital Medicine Conference (HHMC) this fall. This is a regional conference of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and will feature presenters from around the region. Hospitalists are the largest subspecialty of Internal Medicine and are front-line providers for care delivery of hospitalized patients with a broad array of diagnoses. The vast majority of hospitals in the United States rely on hospitalists for clinical care delivery, and hospitalists are increasingly responsible for advancing evidence-based medicine for patients who may lack sufficient access to primary care physicians and subspecialists. Staying updated with current medical literature is a continual challenge for hospitalists. To meet this need, the HHMC will deliver pertinent updates in clinical evidence as well as innovative practice patterns to help participants deliver the best, most high-value, most efficient care possible.

24th Southern Hospital Medicine Conference

September 26-28, 2024 | The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, LA

Southern Hospital Medicine is back in its 24th annual year. Presented by Emory University School of Medicine and Ochsner Health, Southern Hospital Medicine will feature a forum for healthcare providers to update the newest concepts of hospital medicine and share their successes and failures of quality program implementation. This conference provides practicing physicians, APPs, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers with the newest concepts in advancing healthcare delivery in the hospital setting. It aims to share updates in the newest advances in clinical disease management, practice management, quality improvement, pharmacology, medical technology, evidence-based standards of care, and practice guidelines. There will be a pre-course on September 25, 2024.

2nd Annual Updates in Hospital Medicine Conference

October 4-6, 2024 | 7am - 4pm | UT Health San Antonio Division of Hospital Medicine, San Antonio, TX

The Division of Hospital Medicine at the Long School of Medicine, University of Texas, San Antonio invites you to attend the 2nd annual Updates in Hospital Medicine conference in beautiful San Antonio. This 2.5-day conference features highly relevant talks in hospital medicine for physicians, advanced practice providers, pharmacists and nurses. Also offered are two interactive 2-hour workshops on ultrasound guided paracentesis and thoracentesis. Conference venue is located close to key San Antonio attractions such as Sea World, with other iconic landmarks such as the river walk and Alamo at a short driving distance.

This conference is designed to update providers caring for hospitalized adult patients on the most current diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for inpatient care. The course will also include relevant content related to diversity, equity and inclusion, physician wellness, and pain management. Workshops will be offered where participants will learn how to use point of care ultrasound to practice procedural skills. This conference will provide CME, Ethics, MOC II and Pain Management credits!

16 CME credits available

Update in Hospital Medicine 2024

October 7 - October 10, 2024 | 9:45am to 6:45pm | Harvard Medical School | Live Streaming

The practice of hospital medicine requires a vast knowledge base that must be continuously updated to meet rapidly evolving standards of care. For the busy hospitalist, staying current and incorporating the latest evidence into practice can be challenging. To help meet this need, Brigham and Women's Hospital offers the 17th annual Update in Hospital Medicine course, accredited by Harvard Medical School. This intensive, four-day virtual course reviews current clinical guidelines and practice changing updates across 33 core topics in hospital medicine. In a case-based format, leading Harvard Medical School faculty answer everyday clinical questions with recent evidence, updated guidelines, and expert opinion. The focus is on practical management of common hospital problems.

Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to apply the following:

Best practices for management of common problems in hospital medicine
Seminal studies and updates in the literature
Recent guideline changes and recommendations
Expert opinions where the data are lacking
Pearls for interpreting common diagnostic studies

SHM Minnesota Regional POCUS Course

October 12-13, 2024 | HealthPartners Conference Center, Bloomington, MN

This course will be an essential experience for all clinicians who are interested in obtaining skills in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS); teaching POCUS principles, applications, and techniques. The course faculty have completed the national CHEST or SHM Certificate of Completion and many have taken and taught advanced ultrasound courses. The in-person course combines focused didactics and hands-on scanning sessions led by nationally recognized expert faculty from around the country. During the hands-on scanning sessions, course participants practice capturing specific ultrasound views of the heart, lungs, abdomen, and legs on live models. The course maximizes the hands-on practice scanning with a low course participant-to-faculty ratio and the curriculum is designed to teach the highest yield POCUS applications for clinicians. The hands-on sessions are complemented by lectures to improve the participant's knowledge of the indications, technical skills, and clinical integration of bedside ultrasound. The curriculum has been fine-tuned over years to maximize learning. This course counts toward the Certificate of Completion Program for SHM.

View the program brochure, here.

19th Annual Mid-Atlantic Hospital Medicine Symposium

October 18, 2024 | The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

The 19th Annual Mid-Atlantic Hospital Medicine Symposium is back with a new 1-day format to provide the key content you need to expand your expertise in the most vibrant manner possible. You will hear about the new ACC/AHA guidelines on perioperative cardiac management, how to improve quality and decrease length of stay through de-escalating antibiotics, optimizing management of acute decompensated heart failure and much more on the core conditions in Hospital Medicine. Our workshops let you choose between enhancing your skill at managing critically ill patients or patients with opioid use disorder and panel discussions let you get answers to your questions across the core areas of hospital medicine. Sessions on dermatology for the hospitalist and radiologic imaging will help you sharpen your imaging skills to enhance your patient care. Our faculty consists of national and international leaders in their fields and our sessions are designed to provide highly relevant material in a concise and stimulating format. The fast pace, exciting topics, expert faculty, and flexible format ensure a highly effective and valuable experience!

2024 NIDUS Delirium Boot Camp

October 27-29, 2024 | The Rizzo Conference Center, Chapel Hill, NC

Now in its 12th year, the NIDUS Delirium Boot Camp is open to early-career faculty and research fellows from a variety of backgrounds, professions, and research areas. As in previous years, the 2024 Boot Camp will feature an inter-professional faculty of more than 15 nationally recognized translational and clinical delirium researchers.

Although the 2024 theme is, "Delirium and ADRD: Research Gaps and Opportunities" the program will is not specifically limited to the ADRD area, and submitted proposals do NOT have to be ADRD-focused. Delirium-related proposals from various interventions, settings, and populations are encouraged including animal models, biomarkers, epidemiology, pilot clinical studies, and implementation science.

18th Annual Mayo Clinic Hospital Medicine: Managing Complex Patients

November 1 - 4, 2023 | Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development

Hospital medicine requires a diverse skill set. Hospital-based healthcare providers must be able to diagnose and manage a wide variety of clinical conditions, coordinate transitions of care, provide perioperative management to surgical patients, and contribute to quality improvement and hospital administration. This program is specifically designed to ensure participants augment their knowledge and skills to meet these challenges in the management of complex hospital care, enhance healthcare delivery and lead in the hospital environment.

Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should have up-to-date new knowledge in important hospital medicine topics including being able to:

Recognize clinical features of urgent and emergent oncologic conditions
Develop an approach to valvular disease in hospitalized patients
Select an appropriate initial treatment for COPD exacerbation in the hospital
Identify consequences associated with workplace violence in healthcare
Employ a rational approach to the use of telemetry in the hospital
Choose an evidence-based approach to hyperglycemia in hospitalized diabetic patients

Columbia University & New York-Presbyterian Presents: Updates in Hospital Medicine

November 8, 2024 | Columbia University & New York-Presbyterian

Program Overview The Update in Hospital Medicine Conference on November 8, 2024 is designed to provide attendees with the information and skills to improve the care of hospitalized patients. The conference's focus is on the practical management of problems commonly encountered in hospital medicine. An emphasis will be placed on recent advances, up-to-date practices, and guidelines for inpatient care. This 1-day CME conference will provide attendees with AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

At the completion of this activity, participants should be better prepared to: Provide an accurate diagnostic assessment for a broad range of disorders commonly seen in the inpatient setting. Utilize current guidelines in the management of commonly encountered therapeutic issues presented by the hospitalized patient. Formulate comprehensive evidence-based interventions and treatment strategies that will lead to the reduction of modifiable risk factors and improved outcomes. This conference is designed for a target audience of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and other healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of hospitalized patients.

The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care

November 8-10, 2024 | 7:30am - 5pm | Airway Management Education Center, Orlando, FL

This is an advanced, 2.5 day course for providers responsible for emergency airway management of acute inpatients. Our world-class, multi-specialty faculty of airway experts focuses exclusively on the airway challenges posed by critically ill inpatients. Emphasizing airway assessment and decision-making, the course equips participants to manage any airway situation they encounter - and to do so with great confidence. Reinforce learning in Code Airway simulations - hands-on management of challenging scenarios.

Build mastery and confidence in:

How to predict a difficult airway
How to prevent a failed airway
When - and when NOT - to use medications
How to perform an awake intubation
How to perform an awake intubation

Gain extensive Hands-on Practice in:

Airway techniques, including video laryngoscopy
Flexible bronchoscopy and laryngeal mask ventilation
Tube exchange and extubation of the difficult airway
Front of the neck access / cricothyrotomy

Prepare yourself for challenging inpatient scenarios, such as:

Upper airway obstruction
Airway management in the massively obese patient
Tracheostomy issues, including accidental dislodgement
The bleeding, traumatized and vomit-filled airway
The can't intubate / can't oxygenate situation

20.75 CME credits available

Perioperative Management - In Its 40^th Year

February 16-19, 2025 | 7:00am - 1:30pm | Marco Island Marriott | Marco Island, FL

Over 300 million patients undergo surgical procedures worldwide, and the age and medical complexity of this patient population continues to increase. Higher risk patients are now having surgery in ambulatory and non-OR settings. All these patients require preoperative assessment, intraoperative management, and postoperative care. Every year the body of peer-reviewed literature on this topic increases and new guidelines on clinical management are formulated. The curriculum for this course was specifically created to address the needs of clinicians who provide care for patients before, during, and after surgery based on examination of the evidence-based peer-reviewed literature, recent research, feedback from course participants, and input from expert colleagues inside and outside Johns Hopkins. As the established leader in perioperative medicine, this course aims to provide practitioners with the most up-to-date knowledge necessary to deliver effective, evidence-based care by affecting healthcare practices at the level of the individual and the larger health system.

Describe current guidelines for preoperative cardiac and pulmonary risk assessment and list several ways to predict and prevent cardiac and pulmonary complications using preoperative testing and intraoperative and postoperative interventions.
Recognize the risks of perioperative anemia and transfusion as well as the risks and benefits of perioperative anti-thrombotic therapies and list several strategies to reduce bleeding and thrombotic complications through evidence-based approaches to anemia management, transfusion, coagulation testing, and pharmacologic interventions with anti-thrombotic and anti-fibrinolytic agents.
Describe the perioperative complications associated with diabetes, renal insufficiency, liver disease, delirium, and frailty, and list current management strategies to optimize outcomes in patients with these medical conditions.
Describe strategies to control acute postoperative pain, including in patients who chronically use opioids or cannabis.
Recognize how to prevent, diagnose, and treat common healthcare associated infections that complicate surgical procedures.
Recognize the perioperative implications of the growing use of newer pharmacologic therapies for diabetes, obesity, heart failure, and immunomodulators and the pros/cons of emerging physiologic monitoring technologies for use in the OR, PACU, and wards.
Recognize the impact of burnout, and its relation to gender, race, and micro-aggressions, on clinician wellbeing and patient safety, and describe strategies to improve work-force wellbeing, communication, and the quality/safety of clinical care for of individual healthcare worker, patients, and the health system.
Recognize basic views for real-time ultrasound guided vascular access and perform vascular access on simulation equipment using ultrasound (optional POCUS Workshop).
Recognize and interpret basic transthoracic ultrasound views of cardiac and lung structures (optional POCUS Workshop).
Apply basic ultrasound algorithms to diagnose and manage an unstable perioperative patient (optional POCUS Workshop).
Recognize and interpret ultrasound views of peripheral nerve structures and how ultrasound can facilitate performance of peripheral nerve blocks for upper and lower extremity surgery (optional POCUS Workshop).
Recognize the causal role of gratitude in well-being (optional Wellness Workshop).
Perform a brief gratitude intervention in real time (optional Wellness Workshop).
List several wellbeing improvements associated with awe and wonder interventions (optional Wellness Workshop).
Perform a brief awe intervention in real time (optional Wellness Workshop).

29.25 CME credits available

General Session 24.25 CME
POCUS Workshop (Optional) 3.0 CME
Wellness Workshop (Optional) 2.0 CME

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