Management of the Hospitalized Patient

Overview

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…

Topics / Speakers

Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Liver Disease - Jin Ge, MD, MBA

Updates in Thrombosis and Anticoagulation - Tracy Minichiello, MD

Update in Sepsis and Shock - Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd

Common Hospital Consults in Infectious Disease - Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD

Cardiology Pearls for the Hospitalist - Lucas Zier, MD

Non-Covid Respiratory Viruses (Flu, RSV, etc.) - Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD

Clinical Problem-Solving Exercise - Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD

Palliative Care Pearls - Steven Z. Pantilat, MD

Current Controversies in Medical Consultation - H. Quinny Cheng, MD

Management of Diabetes in the Hospital - Sarah Kim, MD

Cardiac and Pulmonary Risk Assessment in the Surgical Patient - H. Quinny Cheng, MD

Managing Common Problems in Inpatients with Cancer - Sam Brondfield, MD, MA

Approaching the Hospitalized Patient with Opiate Use Disorder - Soraya Azari, MD

Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Heart Failure - Jonathan Davis, MD

The New Artificial Intelligence – Implications for Hospital Medicine - Sara Murray, MD, MAS

Management of the Patient with Acute Kidney Injury - Christopher Carlos, MD

Hospital at Home – What Hospitalists Need to Know - Michael Maniaci, MD

The Year in Review in Hospital Medicine - Bradley A. Sharpe, MD and Bradley Monash, MD

Faculty

Course Chair

Robert M. Wachter, MD

Professor and Chair

Department of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

Visiting Faculty

Michael Maniaci, MD

Enterprise Medical Director of Virtual Care

Mayo Clinic Center for Digital Health

Medical Director

Mayo Clinic Hospital, Florida

Course Faculty
(University of California, San Francisco unless indicated)

Accreditation

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, the University of California, San Francisco is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Designation

UCSF designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 16.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Date of Original Release: December 1, 2023
Date Credits Expire: November 30, 2026
Estimated Time to Complete: 16.75 hours

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.

Quick Facts

Provider: University of California San Francisco

Course Director:

Robert M. Wachter, MD

Professor and Chair

Department of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

Credits: Earn a maximum of 16.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™