Track Listings

 

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 ACGME work hours, teaching on the wards, using UHC data for research, professionalism in medical education practice, performing systematic reviews, and using modeling simulation to study clinical systems. 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 which should be incorporated into the hospitalist’s approach to clinical care delivery. Session topics include “never events”, neurological and hematological emergencies, complications of pregnancy, atrial fibrillation, infectious disease management, and many more.

CLINICAL 2

The Clinical 2 Track presents issues and solutions for additional clinical topics. The sessions will address perioperative controversies, hip fracture multidisciplinary management, clinical problem solving, ACS evaluation and management, transfusion management, and common dermatology problems. 

EVIDENCE-BASED RAPID FIRE

The Evidence-Based Rapid Fire Track is designed to provide participants with “rapid bursts” of content and to address specific questions framed by the Annual Meeting Committee, based on the highest level of medical evidence available. The topics are very clinical and relevant to everyday inpatient practice. Rational clinical exam, sepsis and septic shock, VTE management, non-invasive ventilation, acute decompensated heart failure, and ICU best practices are a few of the 10 topics to be covered.

PALLIATIVE CARE

Issues related to palliative care require special skills. This track features presentations by experts that will provide special insight for dealing with death with dignity, advanced pain management strategies, and for addressing issues that go beyond pain management including control of symptoms such as shortness of breath, nausea, and anxiety.

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 child abuse, apparent life-threatening events in a healthy-appearing child, and ethical considerations of the hospitalized child are addressed in the breakout sessions. Acute and chronic rheumatologic conditions and stabilization of the acutely decompensating patient will also be addressed in separate sessions.

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 Practice Management Track will include sessions on key healthcare reform updates, financial drivers, employment models, improving patient satisfaction, ED throughput, mitigating legal risks, and the results of the first NPP hospitalist survey, among others.

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 the application of lean methodology to hospital medicine, introduction to QI methodology, improving hospital handoffs, making the business case for QI financial support, and strategies to prevent adverse drug events. An additional feature is a session demystifying completion of Practice Improvement Modules (PIMs) in Maintenance of Certification.

WORKSHOPS

Our workshop tracks are 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. Select your topic and register early as attendance is limited for each workshop session.

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