Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Clinical Update

This comprehensive clinical update covers key topics, the latest advances and emerging issues in Hospital Medicine.

Explore Key Topics in Hospital Medicine

This CME program is a wide-ranging review of the essential topics in Hospital Medicine. The Brigham Update in Hospital Medicine includes a practical review of direct oral anticoagulants and reversal agents, steroids and community-acquired pneumonia, new pharmacotherapies for opioid addiction, new treatment options for heart failure, risk of reintubation, and case-based review of electrolytes and acid-base disorders. It will help you to:

• Prepare for the ABIM Hospital Medicine exam
• Identify and effectively overcome barriers to optimal inpatient care
• Effectively manage the problems encountered in Hospital Medicine
• Evaluate the latest therapeutic options for non-ST elevated MI, opioid addiction, delirium, etc.

• Bacteremia/Endocarditis: An ID Approach – Michael Klompas, MD

• Rapid-Fire Hematology Cases for the Hospitalist – Aric D. Parnes, MD

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

• HIV: Red Flags and When to Call ID – Paul E. Sax, MD

• Antibiotic Update – Paul E. Sax, MD

• Critical Care: An Evidence-Based Update – Rebecca M. Baron, MD

• Current and Emerging Concepts in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Joshua R. Korzenik, MD

• Improving the Evaluation and Management of Syncope – Kapil Kumar, MD

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

• GI Bleed: What a Hospitalist Needs to Know – Tyler M. Berzin, MD, MS

• High-Yield Rheumatology for the Hospitalist – Derrick J. Todd, MD, PhD

• Current Strategies and Controversies in Addiction Medicine – Claudia P. Rodriquez, MD

• Optimizing Outcomes with ACLS – Charles M. Pozner, MD

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

• The Hypos and Hypers: A Physiology-Based Approach to K, Mg, and Phos – Kathleen M. Finn, MD and Cynthia M. Cooper, MD

• Cirrhosis for the Hospitalist – Anna E. Rutherford, MD, MPH

• Practical Approaches to Pancreatobiliary Disease Management – Linda Lee, MD

• Geriatrics for Hospitalists – Houman Javedan, MD

• Pearls for Diagnosis and Management of Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients – Michael Klompas, MD

• Skin Infections and Infection-Mimickers – Adam D. Lipworth, MD

• Current Strategies and Common Questions in the Management of Urinary Tract Infections – Sigal Yawetz, MD

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

• Update in Atrial Fibrillation – Amy L. Miller, MD, PhD

• The Latest in C. difficile – John J. Ross, MD

• Rapid-Fire Electrolyte Cases for the Hospitalist: Na, Ca – David A. Krakow, MD

• Rapid-Fire Acid/Base Cases for the Hospitalist – David A. Krakow, MD

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

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

• Recent Advances in the Management of Neurologic Emergencies – Galen V. Henderson, MD

• Best Practices in Pain and Palliative Care – Kathleen A. Lee, MD

• Addressing and Managing Adrenal Disorders – Anand Vaidya, MD, MMSc

• Best Practices in Delirium Prevention and Treatment – David J. Wolfe, MD, MPH

• The Hemodialysis Patient: What a Hospitalist Needs to Know – Finnian McCausland, MBBCh, MMSc

• Direct Oral Anticoagulants 101 – Jean M. Connors, MD

• Recent Advances in Heart Failure – Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD

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

Learning Objectives

After viewing this program, participants will be better able to:

• Apply best practices for common problems in hospital medicine
• Apply seminal studies and updates in the evidence
• Implement recent guideline recommendations
• Utilize expert opinions where the data are lacking

Intended Audience

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

Date of Original Release: January 1, 2017
Termination Date: December 31, 2020 (Please note that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ will no longer be issued for the activity after this date)
Estimated Time to Complete: 26.5 hours