Course Overview

Point-of-care ultrasound has become an indispensable bedside tool in the care of acutely ill patients as portable ultrasound machines have become more compact and available in hospitals. As frontline providers, hospitalists are using point-of-care ultrasound to guide diagnostic workups and perform invasive bedside procedures on their patients. This Advanced Learning Course combines high-yield didactic sessions with hands-on training to teach the fundamentals of how to evaluate patients with point-of-care ultrasound. The course starts with a review of the basics of ultrasound technology and then dives into the myriad of diagnostic ultrasound applications: focused cardiac ultrasound; evaluation of pleural effusions, pneumothorax, and ascites; evaluation for lower extremity deep venous thrombosis; and evaluation of abdominal organs. Participants experience low participant-to-faculty ratios in an interactive atmosphere that is highly conducive to learning. Imaging techniques are practiced on live models with experienced faculty teaching participants. This Advanced Learning Course employs cutting-edge equipment and is led by expert faculty gathered from across the country.

Course Directors

Trevor Jensen, MD, MS

Linda M. Kurian, MD, FACP, SFHM

Faculty

Brandon Boesch, DO, SFHM

Ria Dancel, MD

Tanping Wong, MD

April 12, 2024
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Course Overview

Today’s healthcare environment is rapidly changing, and hospitalists across the country have been called into action to help care delivery transformation. Being experts in providing efficient care, hospitalists are routinely called upon to lead certain aspects of clinical operations like managing length of stay, quality, and readmissions. This often results in being placed in positions of leadership without the knowledge or skill set necessary to be major disruptors in these transformational efforts. Alternatively, hospitalists may be searching for the next opportunity and asking what steps they need to take.

This Advanced Learning Course will provide a toolkit focusing on the early stages in organizational leadership by learning principles of conflict resolution, Lean management, Health Systems Science, and hospital financial fundamentals. This will enable attendees to extend their skills beyond the bedside in ways to create sustainable career growth, enhance job satisfaction, and unlock new pathways of impacting patient care.

Faculty will have leadership experience in different realms to provide information, insight, and advice. There will be plenty of opportunity to interact with course faculty and network with faculty as well as attendees.

Course Directors

Brian McGillen, MD

Aziz Ansari, DO, FAAHPM, FACP, SFHM

Faculty

Vrusha Shastri, MPH/MBA, PMP

Jill O’Brien, MD

April 12, 2024
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Course Overview

The perioperative management of the surgical patient has evolved to become a critical component of hospital medicine. This Advanced Learning Course will review the essentials of perioperative care, including risk stratification and management of core conditions such as cardiac, pulmonary, and renal disease, as well as diabetes and anemia. This course will equip the hospitalist in both the academic and community setting with the skills needed to care for the surgical patient.

Explore key concepts in perioperative risk assessment and risk mitigation with a focus on inpatient care.

Review perioperative management of common medical comorbidities such as diabetes and pulmonary, cardiac, and renal disease.

Course Directors

Catriona M. Harrop, MD, FACP, SFHM

Smita K. Kalra, MD, FHM

Faculty

Nidhi Rohatgi, MD, MS, SFHM

Kunjam Modha, MD

April 12, 2024
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Course Overview

The Academic Leadership Summit provides a forum for academic hospital medicine leaders and future leaders to learn, exchange ideas, network and innovate solutions to continuing challenges in hospital medicine. This year the topic will focus on the factors challenging hospitalists to remain academic and strategies to overcome them. Participants will hear from hospital medicine leaders across the country through keynote addresses and mini-talks. They will then employ ideas in break-out groups to inspire and equip participants with tools to make meaningful change at their home institutions. Join us and leave the SHM Converge Academic Hospitalist Leadership Summit with an expanded professional network and new leadership knowledge and skills you can immediately apply within your institution.

Course Directors

Daniel Ricotta, MD, SFHM

Jennifer Readlynn, MD, FHM