Essential Procedures for the Hospitalist:  A Hands-On Experience

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Course Overview

Using a combination of didactic sessions and hands-on training, participants will learn how to use ultrasound for safe and accurate vascular access, paracentesis, and thoracentesis.  Skin biopsies and lumbar punctures will also be demonstrated and practiced.  With a 1:3 faculty to participant ratio, non-human tissue models and simulator models will be employed to teach proper techniques for a number of essential procedures.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Describe and perform the proper techniques for invasive procedures
• Apply the use of real-time ultrasound guidance for invasive procedures
• Employ wide sterile barriers (WSB) for sterile procedures utilize proper sharps safety techniques

Topics Include

• Vascular Access and Wide Sterile Barrier (WSB)
• Hands-On Vascular Access, Ultrasound Guidance, and WSB
• Non-Vascular Procedures (Paracentesis, Thoracentesis, LP, Skin Biopsy)
• Hands-On Procedure Practice, Ultrasound Guidance
• Procedure Center—The Heart of a Proceduralist Operation

Course Director
Bradley Rosen, MD, MBA
Cedars–Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Course Director
Sally Wang, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA

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CME Credit and Details (for HM09 course only)

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). The ACP is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing education for physicians.

The American College of Physicians designates the educational activity for a maximum number for each course of category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician Recognition Award as follows: Essential Procedures for 3.75 credits. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in each educational activity.