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Continuing Medical Education for Hospitalists

In an effort to provide our members with numerous opportunities to gain continuing medical education (CME) relevant to hospital medicine, leaders of the hospital medicine community have lent their expertise to develop online CME modules. Our current offering of SHM-developed modules as well as a listing of peer-reviewed online accessible CME modules around various topics for healthcare professionals who specialize in hospital medicine are featured below.

In addition to the listings below, be sure to visit SHM's Quality Improvement Resource Rooms for additional CME.

Online CME Listings

Palliative Care and the Emergency Medicine: An Evolving Frontier of Integration
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
1:30-2:30 p.m. EDT
Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

This audio conference will focus on areas of common ground that will help both emergency departments and palliative care teams improve palliative care for patients and their families. A special introduction to the new IPAL-EM Project (Improving Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine) will also take place.

Learning Objectives:

• Define palliative care and the intersection of palliative care core principles and practice in emergency care
• Identify trends in palliative care in the emergency department
• Explore practical best practice models of palliative care in the emergency department on common serious illness trajectories
  

View the CAPC course and registration information.

SHMConsults — Consultative and Perioperative Medicine for Hospitalists (formerly known as Johns Hopkins Consultative Medicine Essentials)
Hospitalists are the fastest growing portion of the physician work force. Some estimate there will be 50,000 hospitalists needed in the next 10 years. As the number of hospitalists grows, so too will the clinical settings in which we practice. Consultative medicine is a service provided by many hospitalists, and a future in which almost all surgical patients are co-managed by hospitalists is already a reality for some. For many of us, our training in consultative medicine during residency was limited. We hope this curriculum will help you to feel more confident about your knowledge and skills and will lead to better patient outcomes. We welcome your comments and suggestions for future topics.
View the SHMConsults page.

AHRQ's Effective Healthcare Program's Free Online CME/CE Activities
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sponsors CME/CE activities that are developed from systematic reviews of evidence on a wide range of topics. Please click here to view the available activities.

For free online AHRQ CME/CE programs highlighting research findings in patient-centered outcomes research, also known as comparative effectiveness research, click here.

Team Communications for the Management of the Hospitalized Patient With Heart Failure
This CME activity is intended for clinicians caring for patients with heart failure (HF) across the care continuum. They may include hospitalists, cardiologists, other physician specialists, and non-physician clinicians such as advance practice nurses who are involved in the treatment and management of patients with advanced HF who may benefit from palliative care.
On completion of this offering, participants will be able to:

• Identify three communication issues related to HF management.
• Define strategies to improve communication within the team and with the patient and the family
• List three areas of self-management that must be reviewed with the patient prior to discharge from hospital

This case is worth 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ & 1 nursing contact hours.
View the Team Communications CME/CNE Module

Optimizing the Heart Failure Discharge Transition
This CME activity is intended for hospitalists, cardiologists, primary care providers, other physicians, and non-physician clinicians such as advance practice nurses specializing in the management of patients with heart failure. Upon completion of this educational offering, participants will be able to:

• Employ a multidisciplinary approach to the care of patients with heart failure that begins at hospital admission and continues through all care transitions
• Accurately and effectively reconcile medications across the care continuum
• Recognize the value of initiating discharge planning early in the course of the hospitalization, including communication with outpatient clinicians
• Recognize the importance of post-discharge follow-up
• Effectively communicate with patients and families critical elements of successful self-management, especially in the post-discharge period
• Identify specific issues that increase the risk of care transitions for patients with heart failure

The case is worth 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
View the Optimizing the Heart Failure Discharge Transition Module

The Hospitalists' Perspective: Evidence-Based Strategies for Inpatient Anemia
Evidence-Based Strategies for Inpatient Anemia: Decision makers for surgery and oncology inpatients will examine the risks of anemia, including those associated with transfusion, and assess effective anemia management strategies for better clinical and economic outcomes.
View The Hospitalists' Perspective: Evidence-Based Strategies for Inpatient Anemia.

Stroke and TIA: Truths, Half-truths, and Outright Lies
Dr. David Likosky presents a free CME audio lecture with synchronized slides.
View the Stroke and TIA: Truths, Half-truths, and Outright Lies Audio Lecture.

Continuous Quality Improvement (Individual and System)
Preventing Health Care Aquired Infections

Patient Safety
AHRQ WebM&M
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Be sure to visit the Quality Improvement Resource Rooms for additional CME options.