UW Medicine Updates in Hospital Medicine 2025

1. Overview
The UW Medicine Updates in Hospital Medicine 2025 offers a rigorous review of the latest evidence-based practices for inpatient care. This course focuses on optimizing clinical management for common and complex conditions encountered by hospitalists, including updates on cardiology guidelines, critical care emergencies, and perioperative medicine.
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 7:00 AM – Friday, October 17, 2025, 5:00 PM, Zoom
2. Learning Objectives

Apply the 2024 ACC-AHA guidelines and updated strategies for managing acute decompensated heart failure and arrhythmias.

Evaluate and manage neurologic emergencies, including stroke, and oncologic emergencies related to immunotherapies.

Implement best practices for acute pain management, opioid use disorder in the fentanyl era, and wound care.

Analyze “Things We Do for No Reason” to reduce low-value care and adopt age-friendly care principles in the hospital.

Review top practice-changing articles and manage infectious disease cases, penicillin allergies, and pulmonary embolisms.

3. Target Audience

Best for hospitalists, internists, and advanced practice providers who want clinical updates on inpatient management and critical care medicine.

4. Topics
Topics (19 Lectures):

2024 ACC-AHA Guidelines Review

Age Friendly Care in the Hospital

Endocrine Emergencies

Evaluation and Management of Arrhythmias

Evaluation and Management of Stroke-Neurologic Emergencies

ID Cases from Audience

Management of Acute Pain

Management of Pulmonary Embolism

Medical Jeaopardy

Oncologic Emergencies and Adverse Effects of Immunotherapies

Penicillin Allergy

Rheumatology

Things We Do for No Reason

Top 10 Practice Changing Articles in Hospital Medicine 2024-2025 – Part 1

Top 10 Practice Changing Articles in Hospital Medicine 2024-2025 – Part 2

Updates in Management of Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Updates in Opioid Use Disorder in the Fentanyl Era

Updates in Perioperative Medicine

Wound Care