The Brigham Update in Hospital Medicine

Overview

Hospital Medicine CME: Optimize Inpatient Care

Using a case-based format to address everyday questions, The Brigham Update in Hospital Medicine distills recent evidence, guidelines, and expert opinions for the busy practitioner. Emphasizing practical management of common problems, this online CME course — presented by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and accredited by Harvard Medical School — highlights the latest advances and best practices for optimized inpatient care. It features 40 core continuing medical education topics, including:

• COVID-19 treatment updates
• Updated 2023 GOLD guidelines: when to use triple therapy in COPD
• DRESSed to kill: drug reactions and other can't-miss dermatology diagnoses
• Pearls for managing personality disorders in the hospital
• The latest on bacteremia management
• HELLP me: managing medical complications in pregnant and postpartum patients
• and more…

Topics / Speakers

Current Approaches in the Management of Venous Thromboembolism - Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD

Anticoagulation – What the Hospitalist Needs to Know - Jean M. Connors, MD

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

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

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

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

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

Recent Advances in Heart Failure - Anju Nohria, MD

Racial Inequities in the Hospital - Michelle Morse, MD, MPH and Bram Wispelwey, MD, MS, MPH

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine – The Resident Expert that Never Sleep - Agustina Saenz, MD, MPH

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

Evidence-Based Management of COPD-Asthma - Scott L. Schissel, MD, PhD

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

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

Stroke in Hospital Medicine - Galen V. Henderson, MD

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

Geriatric Medicine for the Hospitalist - Shoshana Streiter, MD

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

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

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

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

Urinary Tract Infections Update for Hospital Medicine - Sigal Yawetz, MD

Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients - Michael Klompas, MD

Bacteremia-Endocarditis - Michael Klompas, MD

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inpatient Endocrinology Pearls - J. Carl Pallais, MD, MPH

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

COVID-19 – Treatment - Paul E Sax, MD

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

Rethinking Common Labs – Pearls for the Hospitalist - David A. Krakow, MD

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

Case-Based ECG Review - Sanjay Divakaran, MD

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

Rapid-Fire Hematology Cases for the Hospitalist - Alfred Lee, MD, PhD

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 33.75 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
Termination Date: November 30, 2025 (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: 33.75 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 7.0 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 33.75 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 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

This activity is designed for hospitalists, internists, family physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other clinicians caring for hospitalized patients.