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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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Additional Hospitalist-Specific Live and Virtual CME Opportunities
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).
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
18th Point-of-Care Ultrasound CME Workshops
January 29 - February 2, 2025 | AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, Austin, TX
The University of Texas Health San Antonio invites you to join their 18th Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Workshops which start with a unique POCUS Faculty Development Workshop on day one. There will be four separate CME courses over five days for clinicians with different educational needs:
- Day 1 - Faculty Development Workshop
Designed for POCUS expert faculty who lead POCUS programs at their institutions, routinely teach novice users, and are seeking to advance their POCUS clinical and leadership skills. - Days 2 & 3 – Adult Basic POCUS Course
Traditional two-day POCUS course combining focused didactics and hands-on scanning led by expert faculty in small groups of two learners. This course counts toward the SHM | Chest POCUS Certificate of Completion program. - Days 2 & 3 – Pediatric POCUS Course
Geared toward pediatric hospitalists, intensivists, and neonatologists who are novice users in POCUS. Training is led by pediatric POCUS experts from top children’s hospitals. - Days 4 & 5 – Advanced Cardiac POCUS Course
For physicians proficient in basic cardiac ultrasound seeking training in advanced cardiac applications, including assessment of right and left ventricular function and valvular heart disease.
Perioperative Management - In Its 40th 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
Mayo Clinic International Hospital Internal Medicine Conference 2025 Year
September 9 - 12, 2025 | Rome, Italy
The Mayo Clinic International Hospital Internal Medicine Conference focuses on advancements in hospital medicine. Renowned Mayo Clinic experts will deliver presentations on cutting-edge research, emerging trends, and clinical updates related to hospital medicine that can be readily integrated into daily practice. The conference aims to familiarize clinicians with the clinical reach and expertise of hospitalists in managing complex patients within the hospital setting. Additional lectures aim to provide an overview of hospital and internal medicine with a particular focus on the field’s success in improving quality of care and patient outcomes and optimizing hospital operations. These lectures help to promote the field of hospital medicine internationally and provide a framework for establishing successful hospital medicine programs outside of the United States. A Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) workshop is available as a supplement to the main lectures for those interested in enhancing their skills for incorporating bedside ultrasound into their everyday practice.
Objectives:
- Describe the infrastructure of Hospital Medicine at Mayo Clinic.
- Review the latest developments and innovations in hospital medicine.
- Apply cutting-edge medical advancements into clinical practice.
- POCUS Workshop: Acquire practical experience in point-of-care ultrasound and discuss its clinical benefits.
Credits Available: 23.50 AAPA Category 1, ACHE, AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, ANCC, Attendance, IPCE
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