Hospital Medicine CME

Online CME for Hospitalists: Enhance Inpatient Care

Management of the Hospitalized Patient is an online CME course focused on recent advances and current controversies relevant to hospitalists and other clinicians caring for inpatients.

Robert M. Wachter, MD, leads UCSF’s top teachers and selected guest faculty in a comprehensive hospital medicine review aimed at enhancing your diagnostic and management skills with wide-ranging presentations in critical care, perioperative care, patient safety, hospital neurology, cardiology, GI, hematology, oncology, nephrology, and infectious diseases, Lecture topics in this Oakstone CME program include:

• ICU management pearls
• COVID-19 manifestations, management, and vaccine updates
• Tough cases and controversies in medical consultation
• Oncological emergencies
• And more…

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With 25+ one-hour lectures, Hospital Medicine Review will help you develop expertise in complex, hospital-level care, which can translate into decreased length of stay, overall quality improvement, better resource utilization, and improved clinical outcomes.

Experienced hospitalists discuss acute and chronic medical conditions found in hospitalized patients, in-hospital procedures, unique patient populations, healthcare systems, interprofessional collaboration, and more. Here are just a few of the key-take home points you’ll glean from this online CME program:

• Care Transitions in Hospital Medicine. Communication during shift and service changes —involving both the sender and receiver — have major implications for patient safety, workflow, and delivery of quality care.
• What Hospitalists Should Know About COVID-19 Infection. For patients with severe acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to COVID-19, high flow nasal cannula may reduce the rate of intubation and mortality, and should be preferentially used over non-invasive ventilation strategies.
• Coma: Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis. Coma is typically a self-limited condition that — after 1 to 2 weeks and in the absence of full recovery of consciousness — usually evolves into a vegetative or minimally conscious state.
• Headache/Status Migrainosus: Diagnosis and Management. Status migrainosus is a prolonged refractory migraine attack (> 72 hours) that should be differentiated from secondary causes of headache and may require the use of multi-day IV medication regimens if outpatient treatments are not tolerated or effective.
• And more…

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Outline what hospitalists should know about COVID-19 infection
• Decide on when and how to treat arteriovenous malformations
• Describe the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative considerations in skull base surgery
• List the complications possible in frontal sinus surgery
• Describe the in-hospital management of COPD and acute pneumonias
• Discuss the steps in evaluating pre-operative patients with co-morbid conditions
• List the principles of in-hospital pain control
• Summarize the management and prognosis of patients in coma
• Distinguish the management and follow-up of ischemic stroke from the management and follow-up of hemorrhagic stroke
• Explain the evaluation and management of acute monoarthritis
• List the most serious nosocomial infections

Intended Audience

This educational activity is designed for hospitalists, internists, and other clinicians caring for hospitalized patients.

The HPC Hospitalist, Trauma, and Emergency Procedures Live and Online course covers the 20 most essential procedures needed to work in the ER, ICU, and hospital wards, including the procedures needed for trauma management in the ER.

The course includes lectures and skills labs in: informed consent, procedural sedation, mechanical ventilation, tube thoracostomy, needle decompression, endotracheal intubation, Glidescope intubation, LMA placement, King tube placement, intraosseous line placement, point-of-care ultrasound including E-FAST and RUSH exams, and ultrasound-guided procedures: central line placement, arterial line placement, peripheral IV placement, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, and paracentesis.

Before the meeting, you watch 17 online lectures at home or in your office; then you attend a LIVE meeting featuring demonstrations and hands-on training in one of a exciting locations including Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington D.C., San Antonio, Seattle, and Long Beach

After completing the HPC Hospitalist, Trauma, and Emergency Procedures Live and Online course, you will be better able to:
• Define the indications and contraindications for hospital procedures
• Identify the pertinent anatomy, patient positioning and proper technique for hospital procedures
• Understand the common complications of the various procedures
• Choose appropriate options for oral or intravenous procedural sedation
• Utilize basic ultrasound to assist with hospital procedures
• Understand the basic principles of mechanical ventilation
• And much more

Target Audience:
Attending and resident physicians, midlevel providers, and medical students working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards.

Expert Clinicians Share Lessons Learned from Medical Mishaps

What My Mistakes Taught Me is a truly unique and illuminating online CME program. In 22 one-hour lectures, physicians from different areas of medicine and surgery discuss the expertise they’ve gained from problems, mistakes, and errors in clinical practice.

Led by Martin A. Samuels, MD, these experienced clinicians share case studies and the take-away messages learned from their own medical mishaps, emphasizing that:

• While we’re not perfect, we’re still valued contributors to our profession and society
• Perceived mistakes help us live with our imperfections and strengthen our integrity
• Recognized mistakes tell us what works and what doesn’t
• Accepting mistakes helps us take responsibility for erroneous ideas or actions
• Open acknowledgement of mistakes inspires others to do likewise

The HPC Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures Online CME course provides evidence-based information about the 20 most common bedside procedures performed in the emergency room, intensive care unit, and hospital wards.

The course is comprised of 17 modules that cover the indications, contraindications, techniques, complications, fluid analysis, and coding of these procedures.

The HPC Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures Online CME course covers informed consent, procedural sedation, central line, intraosseous line, peripheral IV, and arterial line placement, point-of-care ultrasound including E-FAST and RUSH exams, mechanical ventilation, needle decompression, basic suturing, tube thoracostomy, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, paracentesis, and basic and difficult airway management including video laryngoscopy.

Target Audience:
Attending and resident physicians, midlevel providers, and medical students working in the emergency room, intensive care unit, or hospital wards.