Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
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
Educational Tracks
Take a look at some of the new tracks we added this year!
Patient Experience
Attend these sessions to learn strategies to streamline and refine communication between providers and patients, improve outcomes, and optimize patient experience.
Vulnerable Populations
These sessions provide clinical guidance and expertise on caring for patients that are vulnerable in several domains, including medically complex, social instability, language barriers, and transgender and nonbinary patients.
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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. 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 resources to implement.
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Clinical Updates
Expert clinicians and educators deliver evidence-based updates from the literature in topic areas relevant to hospitalists.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
These sessions will address healthcare disparities and biases and provide tools and strategies to foster an inclusive and equitable workplace.
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Early-Career
The Early Career Hospitalist track has been designed for new hospitalists, resident physicians and medical students interested in pursuing a career in Hospital Medicine. Designed by SHM’s physicians-in-training committee, which includes nationally recognized hospitalists with expertise in scholarship, career development, and medical education, this track aims to inspire future hospitalist leaders.
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Health Policy
These sessions will provide information about the processes of health policy development and implementation, and an overview of federal legislative and regulatory programs and processes that impact hospital medicine.
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High Value Care
Expert presenters share best practices and ideas to deliver maximal value in hospital based care via improving care quality and minimizing cost to the system in these sessions.
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NP/PA
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants are critical to hospital medicine care delivery. This half-day track will discuss best practices in NP/PA utilization and collaboration.
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Palliative Care
Hospitalists are optimally situated to provide palliative care to their patients. Patients are admitted to hospitals at turning points in a serious illness trajectory, when needs for pain and symptom management and navigation of prognosis and goals of care are high.
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Pediatric
The Pediatric track offers a variety of clinical and systems-based topics. This track will feature sessions including Newborn Jaundice Guidelines, Things We Do For No Reason, Firearms and the Pediatrician.
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Perioperative/Co-Management
These sessions provide learners with evidence based practices in medical management before and after surgery, including preoperative risk assessment and optimization, intraoperative issues that impact medical conditions, and postoperative management strategies, delivered by world class experts in perioperative medicine.
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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. A few topics that will be covered in this track will focus on Physician Retention, Financial Fluency, Dysfunctional Teams, and much more.
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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.
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Technology
Content in this track features sessions on current and future technologies and tools that impact care delivery, practice efficiency, and provider and patient experience.
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Wellness
These sessions provide attendees with skills and perspectives to foster resilience, identify and mitigate burnout, and promote sustainability in practice and in life.
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Workshops
These are extended length sessions (90 minutes) held in smaller round-table settings for attendees to engage in a more interactive learning environment.
The credit statements for Converge 2023 are still being reviewed and will be updated as soon as they are approved.
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