WashU Medicine – 16th Annual Gateway Hospital Medicine Conference: Care of the Hospitalized Patient – September 24-25, 2026

Key Features

• 2-day live CME course (Sept 24–25, 2026) featuring evidence-based lectures, interactive case presentations, and breakout sessions.
  
• Interprofessional Team-Based Care: Planned and implemented interprofessionally by adult and pediatric hospital medicine physicians and nurse practitioners.
  
• Comprehensive Focus: Highlights best practices and clinical techniques to optimize care for both adult and pediatric hospitalized patients.

Topics Covered

• Inpatient Diagnostics & Management: Evidence-based care strategies for common adult and pediatric conditions.
  
• Diagnostic Stewardship: Reducing non-essential testing and refining clinical decision-making.
  
• High-Value Care: Optimizing patient outcomes while minimizing unnecessary interventions and costs.
  
• Emerging Tech & AI: Evaluating the clinical role of artificial intelligence and new technologies in hospital workflows.
  
• Guideline Updates: Incorporating recent clinical guidelines and emerging medical evidence.
  
• Patient-Centered Communication: Addressing diverse clinical, psychosocial, and supportive care needs.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:

• Apply current, evidence based diagnostic and management strategies for common inpatient medical conditions encountered by hospitalists.
  
• Employ diagnostic stewardship principles to improve clinical decision making and reduce unnecessary testing.
  
• Evaluate the role of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, in inpatient clinical practice.
  
• Employ high value care principles to optimize patient outcomes while minimizing unnecessary interventions and resource utilization.
  
• Incorporate recent guideline updates and emerging evidence into the care of hospitalized patients.
  
• Apply patient centered communication and care strategies to address the diverse clinical, psychosocial, and supportive care needs of hospitalized patients.

Target Audience

"Designed For: Adult and pediatric hospitalists, subspecialty physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), physician associates (PAs), and pharmacists. Interprofessional Planning: Developed collaboratively by both adult and pediatric healthcare providers to address care across various inpatient demographics."

Additional credit info

In support of improving patient care, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.