The Brigham Update in Hospital Medicine

Overview

Expert Hospital Medicine CME for Optimized Care

Using a case-based format, lecturers featured in The Brigham Update in Hospital Medicine online video CME course distill recent evidence, guidelines, and expert opinion to offer “bottom line” recommendations. Faculty include hospitalists and specialists who rank among the best teachers at Harvard Medical School.

Along with insights on current best practices for optimized inpatient care, the curriculum covers all areas of hospital medicine with 30+ core continuing medical education topics that emphasize practical management of common problems, including:

• Heart failure
• Diabetes
• Psychiatric disorders
• ECG interpretation
• Bacteremia
• Pneumonia
• Skin and soft tissue infections
• C. difficile
• End-stage renal disease
• HIV
• GI bleed
• Delirium
• Pain and palliative care
• and more…

Topics / Speakers

Hospital Management of PE and DVT - Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD

Can’t-Miss Radiology Diagnoses - Jennifer W. Uyeda, MD

Trauma Informed Care Strategies for Patients with Larger Bodies - Chioma Ngumezi Tomlinson, PA-C

Care of the Hospitalized Patient with HIV - Paul E. Sax, MD

Antibiotics – A Rapid Update and Pearls for the Hospitalist – Part I - Jennifer A. Johnson, MD

Antibiotics – A Rapid Update and Pearls for the Hospitalist – Part II - Jennifer A. Johnson, MD

Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients - Michael Klompas, MD

Bloodstream Infections - Michael Klompas, MD

Anemia for the Hospitalist - Alfred Lee, MD, PhD

Case-Based ECG Review - Sanjay Divakaran, MD

Recent Advances in Heart Failure Management - Anju Nohria, MD

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine – The Resident Expert That Never Sleeps - Agustina Saenz, MD, MPH

Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome – A Case-Based Approach for the Hospitalist - Lisa W. Vercollone, MD, PharmD

Treating Opioid Use Disorder in the Inpatient Setting - Lisa W. Vercollone, MD, PharmD

Evidence-Based Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes - Marc S. Sabatine, MD, MPH

A Review of Common Clinical Scenarios in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation - Yee-Ping Sun, MD

Improving the Evaluation and Management of Syncope - Kapil Kumar, MD

Cirrhosis for the Hospitalist - Anna E. Rutherford, MD, MPH

Inpatient Management of GI Bleeding - Tyler M. Berzin, MD, MS

Practical Approaches to Pancreatobiliary Disease Management - Linda S. Lee, MD

Common Dermatology Consults for the Hospitalist - Alexandra P. Charrow, MD

Common Consult Questions for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections - Adam D. Lipworth, MD

Ischemic Stroke in Hospital Medicine - Alexis T. Roy, MD

Updates in the Diagnosis and Management of C. diff - John J. Ross, MD, CM, FIDSA

Do I Really Need Meropenem? Common ID Curbsides - Hayden S. Andrews, MD

Managing Patients in the Transition Between Floor and ICU - Rebecca M. Baron, MD

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Craig P. Hersh, MD

Allergy 101 – Drug Allergies and Other Common Consults for Hospitalists - Paige G. Wickner, MD, MPH

Racial Inequities in the Hospital – Case Studies in Antiracism Research and Action - Michelle Morse, MD, MPH and Bram Wispelwey, MD, MS, MPH

Evidence-Based Approaches to Inpatient Hyperglycemia - Nadine E. Palermo, DO

Best Practices for Inpatient Management of Patients with Psychiatric Disease - Sejal B. Shah, MD

Geriatric Medicine for the Hospitalist – Delirium - Shoshana Streiter, MD

Current and Emerging Concepts for Preoperative Evaluation - Adam C. Schaffer, MD

Rapid-Fire Electrolyte Cases for the Hospitalist – HyperCa and HypoNa - David A. Krakow, MD

Rapid-Fire Lab Interpretation for the Hospitalist - David A. Krakow, MD

Hypercoagulable States - Jean M. Connors, MD

Pregnancy – What a Hospitalist Needs to Know - Meghan L. Rudder, MD

Goals of Care Conversations in Hospital Medicine - Andrew J. Lawton, MD

Update in Acute Kidney Injury - Emily S. Robinson, MD, MPH

CKD and ESRD Management for the Hospitalist - Ankit Patel, MD, PhD

Adrenal and Thyroid Topics in Hospital Medicine - J. Carl Pallais, MD, MPH

Urinary Tract Infections for Hospital Medicine – Current Strategies and Common Questions in the Management - Sigal Yawetz, MD

Faculty

Accreditation

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Harvard Medical School 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.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The Harvard Medical School designates this enduring material for a maximum of 35.25 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 15, 2024
Termination Date: December 14, 2027 (Please note that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ will no longer be issued for the activity after this date)
Estimated Time to Complete the Activity: 35.25 hours

CME credit is awarded upon successful completion of a course evaluation and post-test.

Risk Management Credit

This activity meets the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for 9.0 credits of Risk Management Study. This includes:

1.50 Credits of Opioid Education and Pain Management Training

0.75 Credits of End-of-Life Care Studies

Please check your individual state licensing board requirements before claiming these credits.

ABIM Medical Knowledge MOC Points

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 35.25 Medical Knowledge 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 points.

On the course evaluation page please indicate “Yes” when asked if you would like to receive ABIM MOC points for your participation in this enduring activity. You will then be required to provide your ABIM ID # and your Date of Birth. Points earned will equal the amount of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ claimed.

HMS will upload the participant data, including the points earned, directly to the ABIM so that it will appear on the ABIM diplomates transcript. These points will not appear on your certificate provided at the end of this enduring activity.

ACGME Competencies

This course is designed to meet one or more of the following Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Competencies:

• Patient Care and Procedural Skills
• Medical Knowledge
• Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

Disclosure Policy

Harvard Medical School (HMS) adheres to all ACCME Accreditation Criteria and Policies. It is HMS's policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that HMS may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure information for all individuals in control of the content of the activity is located on the disclosure statement in the PDF and printed syllabus.

Learning 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

Target Audience

Hospitalists, internists, family physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians caring for hospitalized patients.