Management of the Hospitalized Patient

Overview

Online CME for Hospitalists: Enhance Inpatient Care

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

Robert M. Wachter, MD, leads UCSF’s top teachers and selected guest faculty in a comprehensive hospital medicine review aimed at enhancing your diagnostic and management skills with wide-ranging presentations in critical care, perioperative care, patient safety, hospital neurology, cardiology, GI, hematology, oncology, nephrology, and infectious diseases, Lecture topics in this Oakstone CME program include:

• ICU management pearls
• COVID-19 manifestations, management, and vaccine updates
• Tough cases and controversies in medical consultation
• Oncological emergencies
• And more…

Topics / Speakers

Diagnosis and Management of VTE in the Hospitalized Patient - Tracy Minichiello, MD

Update on Clinical Manifestations and Inpatient Management of COVID-19 - Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD

Managing Anticoagulation in the Hospitalized Patient - Tracy Minichiello, MD

Thromboembolism Q&A: Cases and Controversies - Tracy Minichiello, MD and Erika Price, MD, MPH

ICU Management Pearls for the Hospitalist - Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd

Setting Up a Successful Hospital at Home Program - Linda DeCherrie, MD

Clinical Problem-Solving Exercise - Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD

COVID-19: Update on Vaccines and Variants - Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH

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

Advances in Interventional Endoscopy - Craig Munroe, MD

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

Tough Cases in Medical Consultation - H. Quinny Cheng, MD

The State of the COVID-19 Pandemic - George Rutherford, III, MD

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

COVID-19 and the Transformation of Healthcare - Robert M. Wachter, MD

Key Arrhythmia Topics for Hospitalists - Gregory M. Marcus, MD, MAS

Oncologic Emergencies in Hospital Medicine - Sam Brondfield, MD, MA

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

Linda DeCherrie, MD

Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Associate Professor of Medicine

General Internal Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, NY

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 16.25 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 16.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. 

Series Release: January 15, 2022
Series Expiration: January 14, 2025
Estimated Time to Complete: 16.25 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 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 16.25 ABIM MOC points