Hospital Medicine CME Courses
Hospital Medicine CME Courses
Management of the Hospitalized Patient, chaired by Dr. Robert Wachter, covers recent advances and current controversies relevant to hospitalists and other clinicians caring for inpatients. This CME course aims to enhance your diagnostic and management skills through hands-on teaching and observation in critical care, perioperative care, patient safety, hospital neurology, cardiology, GI, hematology, oncology, nephrology, and infectious diseases. It will help you to better:
- Improve diagnosis of common inpatient clinical presentations
- Perform an evidence-based work-up for common inpatient clinical presentations
- Apply recent therapeutic approaches to common inpatient disorders
- Effectively respond to patients’ questions using the latest clinical literature
This CME program from Johns Hopkins — the leader in perioperative medicine — focuses on current and concise knowledge to improve patient outcomes through preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management, and postoperative care. Perioperative Management includes case-based lectures on topics like cardiac and pulmonary risk assessment, perioperative renal dysfunction, pain management, management of diabetes and hyperglycemia, and more. It will also help you to better:
- Illustrate effective management of bleeding and thrombotic risks in surgical patients
- Identify strategies for controlling postoperative pain and reducing opioid dependency
- Outline ways to prevent, diagnose and treat common infections that complicate surgical procedures
- Discuss multi-disciplinary approaches to minimize complications and improve patient outcomes
Practical Reviews is a fast, effective way to stay on top of new medical information and earn online CME. Featuring expert audio, text commentary and relevant clinical tips, articles are hand-selected from leading medical journals across 20 specialties. Subscribe today and choose a special discount or an Amazon.com Gift Card!
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Practical Reviews is just that — practical, expert reviews of the most significant articles from the top medical journals. This time-saving information management tool helps you understand what’s relevant to your practice, and keeps you on the cutting edge of patient care. Explore reviews in your specialty plus 19 others. These engaging audio commentaries and written summaries focus on the hottest topics, newest technologies, groundbreaking clinical tests, and more.
It takes just 15 minutes to read the summary, listen to the commentary, take a quiz and earn credit. A subscription includes access to the online database, audio, PDF abstracts and quizzes, not to mention the free app. You can also add audio CDs and printed abstracts, which we'll mail directly to you each month.
UCSF Advances in Internal Medicine is extremely thorough and helps you keep up with recent developments and current trends in the field. Led by H. Quinny Cheng, MD, it covers a wide range of topics in 11 subspecialty areas, including cardiology, geriatrics, endocrinology, gastroenterology, women's health, pulmonology, neurology, and more. This CME program will help you to better:
- Illustrate adept management of chronic medical problems such as hyperlipidemia, diabetes, osteoporosis, gout, and chronic pain
- Manage acute conditions such as skin and soft tissue infections, STDs, and sports-related injuries
- Effectively diagnose and treat medical problems usually treated by specialists, such as heart failure, hepatitis B & C, end-of-life care, and rheumatoid arthritis
- Integrate recent guidelines and current evidence into daily practice relevant to atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, anticoagulation management, chronic kidney disease, and preoperative medical evaluation
This course covers 20 of the most essential procedures needed to work in the ER, ICU, and hospital wards, including the procedures needed for trauma management in the ER, and includes 4 hours of hands-on ultrasound education. Course topics cover vascular access, arterial line placement, point-of-care ultrasound, mechanical ventilation, informed consent, procedural sedation, tube thoracostomy, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, paracentesis, airway management. Lab skills cover vascular access, ultrasound, airway management, lumbar puncture, thoracentesis, chest tube placement, paracentesis, pneumothorax evacuation, and needle decompression. Accredited by Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. Save $50-$150 with early registration at least 30 days before start of course. Exciting locations including Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington D.C., San Antonio, Seattle, and Long Beach.
This course covers 20 of the most essential procedures needed to work in the ER, ICU, and hospital wards, including the procedures needed for trauma management in the ER, and includes 4 hours of hands-on ultrasound education. Course topics cover vascular access, arterial line placement, point-of-care ultrasound, mechanical ventilation, informed consent, procedural sedation, tube thoracostomy, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, paracentesis, airway management. Lab skills cover vascular access, ultrasound, airway management, lumbar puncture, thoracentesis, chest tube placement, paracentesis, pneumothorax evacuation, and needle decompression. Accredited by Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. Save $100-$150 with early registration at least 30 days before start of course. Exciting locations including Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington D.C., and San Antonio
- Define the indications and contraindications for the hospital procedures
- Identify the pertinent anatomy, patient positioning and proper technique for hospital procedures
- Understand the common complications of the various procedures
- Choose the appropriate management of complications should they occur
- Choose appropriate options for oral or intravenous procedural sedation
- Perform basic diagnostic ultrasound
- Utilize the ultrasound to assist with hospital procedures
- Understand the basic principles of mechanical ventilation
- Properly code and document for hospital procedures