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

Update in Hospital Medicine will be held online this year, 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
  • Pregnancy
  • Acute coronary syndromes
  • Diabetes
  • Psychiatric disorders
  • ECG interpretation
  • Radiology interpretation
  • Laboratory interpretation
  • Bacteremia
  • UTI
  • Pneumonia
  • Obesity
  • Critical care
  • Skin and soft tissue infections
  • Stroke/TIA
  • C. difficile
  • End-stage renal disease
  • Acute kidney injury
  • HIV
  • Endocrinology
  • Health equity
  • GI bleed
  • Hematology
  • Allergy
  • Geriatrics
  • Delirium
  • Pain and palliative care
  • Alcohol withdrawal
  • Opioid use disorder
  • COPD
  • Preoperative evaluation
  • Dermatology
  • Electrolyte disorders
  • Syncope
  • Venous thromboembolism
  • Pancreatobiliary disease
  • Cirrhosis
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Antibiotics
  • Goals of care conversations
  • Trauma-informed care

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.

2024 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

  • How can we incorporate artificial intelligence into daily practice?  
  • Pearls for interpreting MDR culture data 
  • Caring for patients with obesity in the hospital 
  • Trauma-informed care in daily practice 
  • New protocols for phenobarbital in alcohol withdrawal 
  • Microdosing for buprenorphine induction 
  • COPD: new definitions, eosinophil-based treatment, and chest CT indications 
  • New diagnostic criteria for endocarditis: the role of radiographic imaging 
  • Wearables: new mobile technology for the detection of atrial fibrillation 
  • Are you missing hypoxia? Racial bias in pulse oximetry 
  • 2024 ATS update on ARDS and steroids 
  • Cutaneous drug reactions and other can't-miss dermatology diagnoses 
  • Major updates in atrial fibrillation: early rhythm control and ablation in heart failure 
  • Rapid-fire review of electrolyte, liver, and hematology cases    
  • Fluid resuscitation in pancreatitis: less is more    
  • Things we do for no reason: steroids for anaphylaxis?  
  • Pearls for delirium in the high-risk geriatric patient: what works?   
  • Improving interpreter services in your hospital 
  • Are we misdiagnosing community-acquired pneumonia? 
  • Clinical update: use of CTA in hemodynamically unstable GI bleed 
  • Should we really discharge this patient on IV vancomycin? 
  • A new threshold for corticosteroids in community-acquired pneumonia 
  • Should we prescribe colchicine post-MI? 
  • 2024 guidelines for vasoactive drugs and albumin in cirrhosis 
  • Rectal indomethacin and post-ERCP pancreatitis 
  • PPIs and other meds continued for no reason 
  • Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: rethinking the diagnostic algorithm 
  • Updated guidelines for preoperative fasting and antithrombotic management 
  • New data on anaerobic coverage in aspiration pneumonia 
  • Polypharmacy and deprescribing in older patients 

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OPTIMIZED FOR REMOTE EDUCATION

The 2024 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 60 days after the end of the course.