Oakstone Hospital Medicine Review 2025

New Release! Expert for Hospitalists and Inpatient Clinicians

The comprehensive online video program Hospital Medicine Review features 36 one-hour lectures aimed at delivering practical, evidence-based education and enhancing clinical competence. It brings together leading experts who share actionable strategies for improving patient outcomes across all areas of internal medicine — from dermatologic issues, dizziness, and infections to neuromuscular issues, rheumatology, women’s health, and more.

You’ll gain advanced insights into inpatient management, pre- and perioperative care, and effective care transitions while exploring emerging priorities such as social determinants of health, quality improvement, telehealth, and the hospitalist as educator. This continuing medical education and board review course translates current best practices into real-world applications, equipping you with a deep understanding of critical hospital-based conditions, and the confidence to navigate complex cases and systems of care.

Date of Original Release: November 15, 2025
Estimated Time to Complete: 33 hours

Learning Objectives

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

Discuss strategies for effective handoffs and what senders, receivers, and programs can do to improve handoffs
List the main components of effective inpatient heart failure care
Explain the role of skin testing and drug challenges in antibiotics allergy
Identify which laboratory tests are useful for initial investigation of a coagulopathy
Describe basic immunotherapy complications and their management
Summarize the general approach to managing licit and illicit drug ingestions (for opioid, alcohol, and benzodiazepines) that can cause overdose and eventual withdrawal in the hospital setting
Analyze available patient characteristics and data to identify culprit drugs when faced with an adverse skin reaction to medication
Discuss the clinical examination and diagnostic evaluation of comatose and severely altered hospital patients
Recall the common causes of provoked seizures
Define delirium and describe how to use a standardized approach to its diagnosis
Describe specific examples of how social determinants of health contribute to hospitalizations and readmissions
Recognize tachycardia and bradycardia arrhythmias in the hospital setting
Intended Audience

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

+ Topics:

Care Transitions in Hospital Medicine – Jeanne M. Farnan, MD, MHPE and Vineet M. Arora, MD, MAPP

Preoperative Evaluation and Preparation – Bobbiejean Sweitzer, MD, FACP, F-SAMBA, FASA

Approach to Decompensated Heart Failure – Michelle M. Kittleson, MD, PhD

Cardiac Arrhythmias – Diagnosis and Management – Bruce A. Koplan, MD

COPD and Acute Pneumonias (Bacterial and Viral) – Diagnosis and Management – Kathleen Haley, MD

In-Hospital Infections – Diagnosis and Management – Jennifer A. Johnson, MD

Vaccine Hesitancy – The Unvaccinated Patient – Donald B. Middleton, MD

Antibiotic-Associated Allergy-Anaphylaxis and Desensitization – Diagnosis and Management – Aleena Banerji, MD

In-Hospital Kidney Injury and Disorders of Water-Electrolyte Balance – Diagnosis and Management – Timothy Yau, MD

Disorders of Coagulation – Diagnosis and Management – Catherine P. M. Hayward, MD, PhD, FRCPC

In-Hospital Oncologic Emergencies – Diagnosis and Management – Kristen Manley, MD

Endocrine Society Clinical Guideline Management of Hyperglycemia in Hospitalized Adult Patients in Non-Critical Care Settings – Mary Korytkowski, MD

Hospital-Based Management of Psychoactive Substance Intoxication and Withdrawal – Christopher William Shanahan, MD, MPH

In-Hospital Dermatological Issues – Diagnosis and Management – Steven T. Chen, MD, MPH, MHPEd

Coma – Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis – Craig A. Williamson, MD, MS

Inpatient Neuromuscular Issues – Diagnosis and Management – Carl Gold, MD, MS

Acute Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke – Diagnosis and Management – Babak Navi, MD, MS

Seizure-Status Epilepticus – Diagnosis and Management – Tracey A. Milligan, MD, MS, FAAN, FAES, FANA

Headache-Status Migrainosus – Diagnosis and Management – Angeliki Vgontzas, MD

Dizziness – Diagnosis and Management – Aaron L. Berkowitz, MD, PhD

Delirium – Diagnosis and Management – Vanja Douglas, MD

Acute Myocardial Infarction – Diagnosis and Management – Aditya Bharadwaj, MD

Upper Quadrants Bonanza: Evidence-Based Pearls on Abnormal Liver Function Tests, Upper GI Bleeding, and Pancreatitis – Zahir Kanjee-Khoja, MD, MPH, FACP

Rheumatology in Hospital Medicine – Kristen J. Young, DO, MEd, FACR

In-Hospital Psychiatric Disease – Diagnosis and Management – Sejal Shah, MD

Principles of Acute Pain Management – Jason D. Ross, MD

Principles of In-Hospital Palliative Care – Yuika Goto, MD

Neurological Examination of the Hospitalized Patient – Raymond Price, MD

Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Ischemic Colitis in Hospitalized Patients – Amit Ringel, MD

Women’s Health Issues in Hospitalized Patients – Mary A. O’Neal, MD

Social Determinants of Health in Hospital Medicine – Zanthia Wiley, MD

Learning from Mistakes in the Hospital Setting – Martin A. Samuels, MD

Tele-Health for Hospitalists – Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach, MD

Quality Improvement as a Hospitalist – How to Do It – Kathryn Kvam, MD

The Hospitalist as Medical Educator – Best Practices – Christopher Sankey, MD, FACP, SFHM

Cardiac Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery – Bobbiejean Sweitzer, MD, FACP, F-SAMBA, FASA