Optimizing Inpatient Care: A Comprehensive Course for Healthcare Professionals

This course is specifically designed to provide a comprehensive educational forum for healthcare professionals to enhance their knowledge and competencies in managing common inpatient conditions. Expert faculty will deliver in-depth reviews of the most relevant and common conditions seen in the inpatient setting, focusing on the application of new evidence, interpretation of current guidelines, and effective management strategies.

Course Highlights

• Rheumatology: Identify and manage rheumatologic manifestations in hospitalized patients.
• Infectious Disease: Critically appraise approaches for managing infectious diseases, including fever of unknown origin (FUO), Clostridium difficile (C. diff), and long COVID.
• Renal Medicine: Evaluate and manage inpatients with kidney disease, including acute kidney injury (AKI), anemia from chronic kidney disease, and renal transplant patients.
• Cardiology: Critically appraise best practices for managing cardiac issues, including DVT, PE, HFpEF, NSTEMI, and noninvasive cardiac testing.
• Hospital Medicine Potpourri: Provide an overview of various topics clinicians face, with updates regarding perioperative medicine, providing an order for medical consult, and approaches to plasma and platelet transfusion.
• Psychiatry: Describe management approaches to various psychological issues hospitalized patients face, including methods for effective management of difficult patients, prevention and management of hospital delirium, and effective methods for management of alcohol withdrawal in hospitalized patients.
• Literature Review Lightning Round: Stay up-to-date with the latest research and evidence-based practices in hospital medicine.

Why Attend?

Join our expert faculty and gain valuable insights into improving the care of hospitalized patients. Benefits of attending include:

• Hear from expert faculty addressing the most common inpatient conditions
• Learn best practices for improving the care of hospitalized patients
• Participate in live Q&A panel discussions to supplement the presentations

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for:

• Hospital medicine physicians
• Internal medicine physicians
• Family practice physicians
• Physician assistants
• Nurse practitioners
• Nurses
• Fellows
• Residents
• Other healthcare professionals interested in hospital-based medicine

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify and manage rheumatologic manifestations in hospitalized patients.
• Critically appraise approaches for managing infectious diseases for hospitalized patients.
• Evaluate and manage inpatients with kidney disease.
• Critically appraise best practices for managing cardiac issues for hospitalized patients.
• Provide an overview of various topics clinicians face in hospital medicine.
• Describe management approaches to various psychological issues hospitalized patients face.