Comprehensive updates, advances, and best practices to optimize inpatient care

Update in Hospital Medicine is a live online course, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.

OVERVIEW

This 4-day intensive program updates busy practitioners on current best practices in hospital medicine. The curriculum covers over 30 core topics, with an emphasis on practical management of common problems (See schedule):

  • Heart failure
  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Pain management
  • Acute coronary syndromes
  • Coronary imaging
  • Diabetes
  • Preoperative evaluation
  • Psychiatric disorders
  • ECG interpretation
  • Radiology interpretation
  • Bacteremia
  • UTI
  • Pneumonia
  • Drug-resistant infections
  • Critical care
  • Skin and soft tissue infections
  • Stroke/TIA
  • C. difficile
  • End-stage renal disease
  • Acute kidney injury
  • Endocrinology
  • Rheumatology
  • HIV
  • GI bleed
  • Hematology
  • Allergy
  • Geriatrics
  • Delirium
  • Pain and palliative care
  • Alcohol withdrawal
  • Opioid use disorder
  • COPD
  • Laboratory interpretation
  • Dermatology
  • Electrolyte disorders
  • Syncope
  • Venous thromboembolism
  • Pancreatobiliary disease
  • Cirrhosis
  • Antibiotics
  • Serious illness conversations
  • Pregnancy

Using a case-based format, lecturers distill recent evidence, guidelines, and expert opinion to offer “bottom line” recommendations. Faculty include both hospitalists and specialists, and rank among the best teachers at Harvard Medical School.

2025 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

  • The first new AHA periop guidelines in 10 years—what the hospitalist needs to know
  • ID pearls for selecting the right antibiotic
  • Coronary CTA: as good as cardiac catheterization?
  • 2025 data: settling the debate on MSSA bacteremia treatment
  • New heart failure guidelines: should we stagger initiating quadruple GDMT?
  • Difficult cases in hyperglycemia management
  • Rapid-fire, can’t-miss diagnoses: electrolyte, CBC, LFTs, ECGs, and radiology
  • Microdosing protocols for buprenorphine induction
  • New protocols for use of phenobarbital in alcohol withdrawal
  • ESBL cultures—how scared should you be?  
  • The MINT trial and 2025 guidelines for hemoglobin targets in ACS
  • New data on sedation and ICU delirium: propofol vs. dexmedetomidine
  • New guidelines: risk-stratified approach to antipsychotics and delirium
  • 2025 IDSA guideline updates on diabetic foot infections
  • Should you switch anticoagulants in patients with breakthrough strokes?
  • Best practices for treating pain in patients with substance use disorders
  • Thrombolysis in acute stroke: are we going to need a bigger window?
  • Is less more in the long run? DAPT vs. SAPT
  • Oral fecal microbiota therapy: new first line for C. difficile?   
  • Differentiating skin infections and mimics in hospitalized patients
  • Nice shot: injectable therapy for HIV
  • Evidence-based tools for risk stratification in syncope
  • To DAPT or not to DAPT: antiplatelet therapy in stroke and TIA
  • HELLP me: managing medical complications in pregnant and postpartum patients
  • Expedited transitions from IV to oral antibiotics for common infections
  • Inpatient pain management: state of the art

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OPTIMIZED FOR REMOTE EDUCATION

The 2025 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 90 days after the end of the course.