Hospitalists. Transforming Healthcare. Revolutionizing Patient Care.
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Academic/Research
This combined track is for hospitalists who practice in academic medical centers and face unique challenges, as well as for hospitalists in any setting interested in research. Topics being addressed include thriving as a ward attending, giving effective feedback, developing effective surveys, teaching on the wards, creating a quality improvement (QI)-curriculum and program evaluation of QI projects. Also featured are oral presentations selected from the RIV abstracts receiving the top scores by reviewers. Every hospitalist, whether in a community or academic medical setting, who desires to bring greater rigor to their analysis as well as educational effectiveness, will walk away from these sessions with new tools.
Clinical 1
The Clinical 1 Track focuses on essential topics in adult clinical medicine, emphasizing recent advances that should be incorporated into the hospitalist’s approach to clinical care delivery. Session topics include clinical problem solving, dermatology for the hospitalist, acute ventilator issues, neurocritical care, acute pain management, delirium or dementia, and many more.
Clinical 2
The Clinical 2 Track presents issues and solutions for additional clinical topics. The sessions will address perioperative controversies, updates in critical care, management of syncope, antimicrobial stewardship, diastolic heart failure diagnosis- and reviving cardiac auscultation skills.
Pediatric
The Pediatric Track will focus on pediatric hospitalist practice management as well as current clinical issues encountered by pediatric hospitalists. Many thought-provoking issues such as Kawasaki disease, complicated pneumonia, DVT prophylaxis, and pediatric palliative care are addressed in the breakout sessions.
Potpourri 
The Potpourri Track offers presentations on a variety of non-clinical topics of interest to the practicing hospitalist. The variety of topics includes work-life balance, history of hospitals, art and observation, and professionalism in the digital age.
Practice Management
The importance of organizational infrastructure related to the practice of hospital medicine is well recognized, and information in this area continues to accumulate. This year's topics in the Practice Management Track will include SHM’s hospitalist career satisfaction survey, providing value by reducing readmissions, women in hospital medicine, core leadership competencies, accountable care units, myths and facts of non-physician provider practice, and many more.
Quality
Given the importance of quality and patient safety in the delivery of healthcare, the Quality Track is offered to address the imperatives around development and implementation of improvement efforts in the hospital. Practical sessions will cover such areas as physician value-based purchasing, hospital hand-offs, lessons from project BOOST, economics of hospital medicine, checklists for processing the aftermath of medical errors-and many more.
Workshops
Our Workshop Track is back by popular demand! Workshop topics were submitted by members, underwent a peer review, and were selected based on their relevancy to hospitalists, designed engagement and interaction with participants, experience of the presenter(s), and clarity of submission. Submission categories included clinical, evidence-based medicine, research, academic, practice management, and quality and safety.
Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Blackwell Futura Media Services and the Society of Hospital Medicine. Blackwell Futura Media Services is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement
Blackwell Futura Media Services designates this live activity for the SHM Annual Meeting for a maximum of 19.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
