Stay Ahead in Your Field
Management of the Hospitalized Patient, chaired by Dr. Robert Wachter, covers recent advances and current controversies relevant to hospitalists and other clinicians caring for inpatients. This CME course aims to enhance your diagnostic and management skills through hands-on teaching and observation in critical care, perioperative care, patient safety, hospital neurology, cardiology, GI, hematology, oncology, nephrology, and infectious diseases. It will help you to better:

Improve diagnosis of common inpatient clinical presentations
Perform an evidence-based work-up for common inpatient clinical presentations
Apply recent therapeutic approaches to common inpatient disorders
Effectively respond to patients’ questions using the latest clinical literature
Expand Your Skills
Available online or via audio MP3 CDs, Management of the Hospitalized Patient provides a maximum of 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™ and 12.75 MOC points, as well as access to unbiased, evidence-based content and case-based reviews so you can expand your knowledge and incorporate the latest guidelines into your daily practice.

Accreditation
The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation
UCSF designates this enduring material for a maximum of 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 12.75 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 credit.

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

Improve diagnosis of common inpatient clinical presentations
Perform an evidence-based work-up for common inpatient clinical presentations
Apply modern therapeutic approaches to common inpatient disorders
More effectively respond to patients’ questions in hospital medicine using the latest clinical literature
Intended Audience
This activity was designed for hospitalists and other clinicians who care for inpatients.

Topics/Speaker:
Updates in the Diagnosis and Management of DVT and PE – Tracy Minichiello, MD
Managing Anticoagulation in the Hospitalized Patient – Tracy Minichiello, MD
Better (and Worse) Things to Say to Patients and Families in Palliative Care – Steven Z. Pantilat, MD
Tough Cases in the Hospitalized Patient with Liver Disease – Danielle Brandman, MD, MAS
Diagnosis and Management of Shock – Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd
Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Cirrhosis – Danielle Brandman, MD, MAS
What’s New in Hospital Antibiotics – Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD
Current Controversies in Medical Consultation – H. Quinny Cheng, MD
Fundamentals of Preoperative Evaluation – H. Quinny Cheng, MD
Tough Cases in Medical Consultation – H. Quinny Cheng, MD
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Separating the Reality from the Hype – Robert M. Wachter, MD
Cardiology Pearls for the Hospitalist – Krishan Soni, MD, MBA, FACC
Update on Management of Atrial Fibrillation in the Hospitalized Patient – Gregory M. Marcus, MD
Lung Infections in the Hospitalized Patient – Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD
The Year in Review in Hospital Medicine – Bradley A. Sharpe, MD and Bradley Monash, MD

Series Release: December 15, 2019
Series Expiration: December 14, 2022