Society of Hospital Medicine Converge On Demand 2026

SHM Converge On Demand 2026 offers a comprehensive experience covering the latest advancements in hospital medicine, featuring over 110 sessions across more than 20 tracks. Participants can learn from leading experts, explore emerging trends such as AI and diagnostic innovation, and gain practical strategies for immediate clinical application. The program also includes exclusive On Demand–only sessions designed to help healthcare professionals sharpen their skills, earn credit, and elevate patient care.
Learning Objectives After completing this activity, learners should be able to:

Improve clinical skills.

Address management issues with possible solutions.

Lead change and innovation within their organizations.

Describe current state-of-the-art evidence-based clinical practice for key topics in adult and pediatric hospital medicine.

Implement system changes to promote quality and improve patient safety.

Address current challenges in academic and educational systems for improving hospital medicine.

Discuss new policy, financial, ethical, legal and management trends impacting inpatient care.

Target Audience

This program is designed for healthcare professionals dedicated to inpatient care, including those seeking to improve clinical skills, lead change, and navigate current trends in adult and pediatric hospital medicine.
Best for Hospitalists, Internal Medicine Physicians, Pediatricians, Intensive Care Physicians, Palliative Care Specialists, Cardiologists, Nephrologists, Oncologists, Gastroenterologists, Rheumatologists, Dermatologists, Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Physician Assistants (PAs), and Clinical Informaticians.

Topics

AI/Information Technology:

Byte-Sized Breakthroughs: Updates and Insights from Generative AI on the Wards

Clinical Informatics: The What, Why and How it is Shaping the Face of Healthcare Delivery!

Review of Large Language Model (LLM) Summarization Tools for Clinical Care and Operations

Top 5 AI Applications Transforming Medicine and What You Need to Know

Academic/Research:

Delivering Better Feedback: A Clinician-Friendly Model for Real-Time Coaching and Upward Input

Get Ready to 2-Step to the SHM Poster Stage in 2027: Writing, Submitting, and Presenting Clinical Vignettes for Absolute Beginners (and Everyone Else)

Grits and Guidance: A Southern Recipe for Creating Mentorship Programming for All Practice Settings

Nashville Hot: Spicing Up Teaching on the Fly

No More Bad Talks: How to Give Presentations That Work

Oral Presentations on Top Advances in Research and Innovations: Innovations

Oral Presentations on Top Advances in Research and Innovations: Research I

Oral Presentations on Top Advances in Research and Innovations: Research II

Robots on Rounds: Teaching Reasoning in a Post-GPT World

SHM Converge Shark Tank

Striking the Right Chord: Making a Busy Teaching Service a Smash Hit

Caring For Vulnerable Populations:

Physician Advocacy: Five Strategies for Taking Action to Impact Patient Care

Re-Framing, Re-Igniting: Maintaining Our Values in Challenging Times

State of Equity Initiatives in Hospital Medicine

Clinical Reasoning/Diagnostics:

Cases from the Country Hospitalist: Bringing World Class Care to the Rural Bedside

Clinical Reasoning Case Conference

Cognitive (Over)Load in Hospital Medicine: Impacts on Diagnosis and Approaches to Mitigating

Therapeutic Reasoning Under Diagnostic Uncertainty: Finding the Threshold

Updates from the Frontier: Large Language Models, Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning

Clinical Updates:

“Bless Your Heart” – Update in Heart Failure

Acute Brain Dysfunction: A Roadmap to Prevention and Treatment of Coma, Delirium, and Agitation in the Critically Ill Patient

Advances in Pharmacotherapy: New Drugs Hospitalists Should Know

AKI and CKD Management Updates

All About that Acid-Base

Antimicrobial Resistance for the Hospitalist

Approach to Acute Liver Injury

Can I Go Home Yet? Antibiotic Strategies to Move Toward Outpatient Treatment

Clinical Update on Re-emerging Virus Presentations

Delirium Superimposed on Dementia – Best Practices for Hospitalist

Dermatology Pearls for Hospitalists

Dizziness Deconstructed: A Simplified Bedside Approach for the Busy Hospitalist

Don’t Starve Your Patient!: A Practical Guide to Tube Feeds and TPN

Frailty and Age-Friendly Health Systems: Beyond Perioperative Care

Go with the Flow: Using Plumbing (and Humor) to Manage Malignant Obstructions in Hospitalized Cancer Patients

Honky tONC Blues No More: Managing Oncologic Predicaments with Swagger

Hot Takes: Addiction Medicine Made Easy for the Busy Hospitalist

I Walk the (Flat) Line: the 2025 ACLS Updates

Last Call: The Latest and Greatest Strategies for Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal and Alcohol Use Disorder

Life-Threatening Inpatient Endocrine Emergencies

Low Platelets, High Stakes: A Hospitalist’s Approach to Thrombocytopenia

Nashville Hot: When Bacteremia Brings the Heat

Nephrology in the Inpatient Setting: Updates and Pearls

Play the Rhythm and (Avoid Code) Blues: ECG Subtleties and New Approaches that Change Management

Queasy About the QT? Striking the Right Chord in Inpatient Nausea Management

Rheumatology Updates for the Hospitalist

Sickle Cell Diseases Clinical Updates 2026

Sweet Notes and Sugar Shifts: Updates in Diabetes Management for the Hospitalist

Sweet Tea, Grits, and Diagnostic Hits: Fever in the Patient with Cancer

The (Mostly) Evidence-Based—and Definitely Practical—Neurologic Physical Examination for Hospitalists

The Heart Failure Playbook: Practical Tools for the Bedside

Update in Anticoagulation: Don’t CHICKEN Out, Learn About the HOTTEST Recent Studies

Update on Psych Patients on the Wards

Updates in Clinical Guidelines

Updates in Gastroenterology

Updates in Pneumonia

Co-management/Perioperative:

Achy Breaky Hips: A Hospitalist’s Guide to Hip Fractures

Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment: Tools, Trends and Best Practices

Perioperative Things We Do For No Reason

The Great Perioperative Debate

Updates in Perioperative Medicine 2026: Evolution of the Evidence

Early-Career:

After Hours: Optimizing Night Float and Cross Cover in Hospital Medicine

And the Band Plays On: Tips on Continuing to Improve your Clinical Knowledge and Clinical Reasoning

Finding Your Rhythm: Exploring the Phenotypes of Hospital Medicine

Job vs. Career: Improve Efficiency and Increase Impact

Health Policy:

Could You Describe the RUCkus, Sir? How Budget Neutrality, wRVUs, and the RUC Shape Your Pay

Updates in Health Policy: What the Hospitalist Needs to Know

High Value Care/EBM:

From Silence to Sound: Composing Better Care for Underserved Patients in the Heart of Nashville

The Best of Things We Do for No Reason

When Less is More: How to Provide Less Anticoagulant and Anti-platelet Treatment to Improve Outcomes

Leadership:

Business Updates for the Hospitalist: The Top Business Articles of 2025 that Will Change the Way You Lead, Do Your Job, and Practice Medicine

From the Knock-Down to the Get-Up: How Women Leaders are Transforming Hospital Medicine

High Impact Behaviors for the Unit Medical Director

Physician unionization: Dancing or just listening to the music?

NP/PA:

From Solo Acts to Supergroups: Building a Strong APP Team in Hospital Medicine

Innovative Clinical Roles and Professional Model Development in Hospital Medicine

Retaining Your NP/PA Workforce: Building a Culture of Mentorship and Support

On Demand Only:

Addressing Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic Syndrome in 2026

In Flight Medical Emergencies

Managing the Complexity of Care for Hospitalized Patients

Tick Talk

Women’s Health for the Hospitalist: High-Yield Topics to Consider in Caring for Women During Inpatient Hospitalizations

Wound Care for the Hospitalist

POCUS:

The Ultrasound Assisted Physical Exam

To Stick or Not to Stick: A Guide to Ultrasound Guided Procedural Safety

Palliative Care:

“Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story”: “Legacy Work” and Helping our Patients Make Meaning at the End of Life

The Beans and the Brain in Serious Illness: Getting the Tunes Right in Foretelling Prognosis and Symptom management

Patient Experience:

Changing your Tune: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Challenging Encounters in the Hospital

Empathy on the Clock: Human-Centered Communication in an AI-Influenced, Highly-Complex Inpatient World

Partnering for the Right Diagnosis: Engaging Patients to Improve Diagnostic Safety in the Hospital

Pediatric:

Pediatric Things We Do For No Reason

Pediatric Top 10 Articles

Pediatric Top Abstracts in Research, Innovations, and Vignettes

We Have Your Back: Review of Evidence and Best Practice for Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Guide Lumbar Puncture

Plenary:

A Giant Leap: Lessons from the Early Days of Generative AI-Meets-Healthcare

Best of Research and Innovations 2025

Update in Hospital Medicine

When Your Team Is Running on Empty: Practical, Science-Backed Strategies for the 7-On Reality

Post-Acute Care/Hospital at Home:

Hot Chicken and Hot Cases: From Mild to Wild on Hospital at Home

Optimizing Transitions of Care: Lessons from a Hospital Medicine Transitions Clinic

Practice Management:

Census Optimization – Making the Business Case for Fewer Patients

Discharge and Throughput Challenges

Dispo Denial Despair: Two Step From a Sad Song to Post-Acute Placement Harmony

RVU Rodeo: Riding the Range of Uncommon Billing Codes

The Spotlight is Ours: Embedding Procedural Care into Hospitalist Practice

Winning the Documentation Game: Clinical Case-Based Pearls from Physician Advisors to Reduce Administrative Burden, Improve Quality and Minimize Revenue Losses

Quality:

Building Bridges: Therapeutic Violence Mitigation Program Development and Implementation

Harmonizing Novel Antimicrobials with Stewardship

Is it Research? Hospitalist Navigating the IRB requirements in Quality, Implementation Science, Innovation and Learning Health Systems

Sepsis Under Scrutiny: Navigating the Controversies and Ambiguities in Quality Improvement

Stuck Like Glue: How Geographic and Interdisciplinary Rounding Impacts Patient Outcomes, Facility Capacity & Clinical Satisfaction

Using AI Collaborative Workflows to Improve Clinical Outcomes

Wellness:

How to Lead a Debrief After A Patient Death or Adverse Event

Physician Coaching: An Evidence-Based Way to Combat Burnout and Wellness Challenges

Unlocking Personal Fulfillment: Harnessing the Power of QI and System Thinking