Management of the Hospitalized Patient

Overview

Learn Now CME: Advances in Hospitalized Patient Care

Management of the Hospitalized Patient, an online CME course, covers recent advances and current controversies relevant to hospitalists and other clinicians caring for inpatients.

Chaired by Robert M. Wachter, MD, this UCSF hospital medicine review aims to enhance your diagnostic and management skills through hands-on teaching and observation in critical care, perioperative care, patient safety, hospital neurology, cardiology, GI, hematology, oncology, nephrology, and infectious diseases. It’s Oakstone CME that will help you to better:

• Improve diagnosis of common inpatient clinical presentations
• Perform an evidence-based work-up for common inpatient clinical presentations
• Apply recent therapeutic approaches to common inpatient disorders
• Effectively respond to patients’ questions using the latest clinical literature

Topics / Speakers

Updates in the Diagnosis and Management of DVT and PE
Tracy Minichiello, MD

Managing Anticoagulation in the Hospitalized Patient
Tracy Minichiello, MD

Better (and Worse) Things to Say to Patients and Families in Palliative Care
Steven Z. Pantilat, MD

Tough Cases in the Hospitalized Patient with Liver Disease
Danielle Brandman, MD, MAS

Diagnosis and Management of Shock
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd

Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Cirrhosis
Danielle Brandman, MD, MAS

What's New in Hospital Antibiotics
Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD

Current Controversies in Medical Consultation
H. Quinny Cheng, MD

Fundamentals of Preoperative Evaluation
H. Quinny Cheng, MD

Tough Cases in Medical Consultation
H. Quinny Cheng, MD

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Separating the Reality from the Hype
Robert M. Wachter, MD

Cardiology Pearls for the Hospitalist
Krishan Soni, MD, MBA, FACC

Update on Management of Atrial Fibrillation in the Hospitalized Patient
Gregory M. Marcus, MD

Lung Infections in the Hospitalized Patient
Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD

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

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

Accreditation

Accreditation

The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation

UCSF designates this enduring material for a maximum of 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 12.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Series Release: December 15, 2019
Series Expiration: December 14, 2022
Estimated Time to Complete: 12.75

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will 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 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ and 12.75 MOC points