UCSF Management of the Hospitalized Patient 2023

This course, chaired by Dr. Robert Wachter, covers the clinical issues most relevant to hospitalists and other clinicians who care for inpatients. Taught by UCSF’s top teachers and selected guest faculty, the course – now in its 27th year – highlights recent advances and current controversies.
To promote active learning, the course uses a mobile audience response system and features multiple workshops in a variety of disciplines to allow for small group discussions. The course will be offered both in-person and virtually. The course includes broad content in critical care, perioperative care, radiology, hospital neurology, cardiology, GI, diabetes, hematology, oncology, nephrology, and infectious diseases.
This course is presented by the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine and is sponsored by the Office of Continuing Medical Education, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. It also serves as the West Coast regional meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
Educational Objectives:
An attendee completing the Management of the Hospitalized Patient course should 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.

Why This Course Stands Out

Cutting-Edge Topics: Stroke, sepsis, diabetes, heart failure, AI in hospital care, hospital-at-home models, and more.

Practical Skills: Multiple small-group workshops for hands-on learning in ultrasound, radiology, and diagnostic reasoning.

Expert Faculty: UCSF and national leaders bringing frontline hospital medicine expertise.

 
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*Note: these are continuous video recordings during the conference, they include individual lectures mentioned in the Detail section below
Day 1 – Thursday, October 19, 2023

Morning Plenary: Welcome by Robert M. Wachter, MD; key updates on stroke diagnosis and management (GRx), liver disease, thrombosis and anticoagulation (GRx), and sepsis and shock.

Afternoon Workshops: Small-group sessions on neurological exam, inpatient gastroenterology, pulmonary medicine, infectious disease consults, hospital rheumatology, and nephrology.

Key Sessions: Cardiology pearls and updates on non-COVID respiratory viruses.

Credits: Geriatric (G) and Pharmacotherapeutics (Rx) CEUs for nurses/NPs available.

Day 2 – Friday, October 20, 2023

Morning Plenary: Clinical problem-solving with Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD; palliative care pearls (GP); medical consultation controversies; and hospital diabetes management (GRx).

Workshops: In-depth training on chest imaging, preoperative evaluation, thromboembolism Q&A, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS 101 & 201), and diagnostic reasoning.

Late Sessions: Exploration of artificial intelligence in hospital medicine and best practices for heart failure management (G).

Day 3 – Saturday, October 21, 2023

Morning Focus: Approaching hospitalized patients with opiate use disorder (P); managing neurological emergencies; and acute kidney injury.

Closing Updates: Hospital at Home innovations (G) and the Year in Review in Hospital Medicine.