The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is a medical society comprised of hospitalists that exists to promote exceptional care for hospitalized patients.
As hospital medicine is a broad and diverse topic, continuing medical education (CME) and training opportunities continue to expand for hospitalists. SHM compiles an ongoing list of recommended, hospital medicine-specific programs that we find to be of value to our members. The CME opportunities listed below are sponsored by other organizations.
With the growth of the hospital medicine specialty, education and training opportunities continue to expand for hospitalists. In addition to SHM’s conferences, various organizations host CME and non-CME events that are relevant to our membership. Review the list below of upcoming SHM conferences of interest.
For a full listing of SHM-endorsed meetings, from local chapters to national conferences, visit the Event Calendar on the Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX).
The University of Kentucky Division of Hospital Medicine will be hosting the annual Heartland Hospital Medicine Conference (HHMC) again this fall. This is a regional conference of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and will feature presenters from around the region. Hospital medicine is the largest, most rapidly-growing subspecialty of Internal Medicine, and hospitalists are front-line providers for care delivery of hospitalized patients with a broad array of diagnoses. Nearly all hospitals in the United States rely on hospitalists for clinical care delivery, and hospitalists are responsible for advancing evidence-based medicine for patients who may lack sufficient access to primary care physicians and subspecialists. Staying updated with current medical literature is a continual challenge for hospitalists. To meet this need, the HHMC will deliver pertinent updates in clinical evidence as well as innovative practice patterns to help participants deliver the best, most high-value, most efficient care possible.
Kentucky has a large and growing number of hospitalists; the surrounding states have hundreds more. The HHMC provides a single, centrally-located event for hospitalists form around the heartland region to gather, network, and learn from regional experts about all the latest developments in Hospital Medicine. The course directors are Drs. Sarah Vick and Joseph Sweigart. Dr. Vick is a teaching attending at the University of Kentucky and is an expert clinician educator with leadership roles in student, resident, and faculty education. Dr. Sweigart is a direct care hospitalist at the University of Kentucky and is heavily involved with SHM at the regional and national level. The HHMC will also feature an abstract and poster session hosted in collaboration with the Kentucky Chapter of SHM.
Join expert faculty for a practical, high-impact program focused on the most common inpatient conditions, with best practices to improve hospitalized patient care, live Q&A panel discussions, and specialty sessions spanning cardiology, hematology/oncology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, high-value care, and key updates in hospital medicine. Attend in the format that fits your schedule—either in person in Cleveland, Ohio, or via live stream—and gain timely insights.
The Mayo Clinic International Hospital Internal Medicine Conference showcases advances in hospital medicine. Mayo Clinic experts present clinical updates, emerging trends, and research. Attendees gain practical insights into hospitalist care and managing complex hospitalized patients.
This course is designed for inpatient care providers including physicians, residents, fellows, medical students, healthcare executives and advanced practice providers (physician assistants, nurse practitioners). It is particularly relevant for those in specialties like internal medicine and family practice, where the focus is on the care of inpatients.
Southern Hospital Medicine is back in its 26th annual year. Presented by Emory University School of Medicine and Ochsner Health, Southern Hospital Medicine provides practicing physicians, APPs, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers with the newest concepts in advancing healthcare delivery in the hospital setting. This conference aims to share updates in the newest advances in clinical disease management, practice management, quality improvement, pharmacology, medical technology, evidence-based standards of care, and practice guidelines.
The Academic Hospitalist Academy (AHA), offered by the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), provides academic hospitalists with the essential educational, scholarly, and professional development skills they need to thrive in their careers. Attendees participate in an interactive learning experience that includes didactic sessions, small-group exercises, and skill-building breakouts led by distinguished clinician-educators, hospitalist-researchers, and clinical administrators.
Enroll in the course that aligns with your unique goals and supports your next professional steps.
UT Health San Antonio’s Division of Hospital Medicine is hosting the Fourth Annual Updates in Hospital Medicine Conference from Friday, October 9th to Sunday, October 11th.
This conference is designed to update providers caring for hospitalized adult patients on the most current diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for inpatient care. The course will also include relevant content related to physician wellness and pain management. Workshops will be offered where participants will learn how to use point-of-care ultrasound to practice and hone procedural skills.
Conference attendees will earn CME, Ethics, MOC II and Pain Management credits!
The UCSF Management of the Hospitalized Patient course, chaired by Bob Wachter, MD, is the longest-running and most popular CME course for hospitalists and others who care for hospitalized patients. Taught by UCSF’s top teachers, including Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Andy Josephson, Lekshmi Santhosh, Tracy Minichiello, and Bradley Sharpe, the course highlights recent evidence and current controversies and blends lectures with multiple interactive workshops to promote active learning. Content areas include critical care, perioperative care, hospital neurology, infectious diseases, cardiology, and nephrology, as well as AI, diagnostic reasoning, and management of the patient with substance use disorder. All of this at the beautiful Hyatt Embarcadero in the heart of San Francisco’s waterfront district.
What to Expect:
Designed for hospitalists, internists, advanced practice providers, and other clinicians involved in inpatient care, this conference offers a dynamic combination of:
Mid-Atlantic Hospital Medicine Symposiumis back in its 21st year! This conference provides the key content you need to expand your expertise in the most vibrant manner possible.
The keynote speaker, Vice Chair for Quality and Safety in the Department of Hospital Medicine at Ochsner Medical Center Megan Brooks, will describe how patients with bacteremia can receive less IV antibiotics to facilitate a prompt and safe discharge.
The Update in Hospital Medicine session will review the studies over the past year that have led to changes in management strategies. Other sessions will focus on recent guideline updates on the Management of Pulmonary Embolism, the ACC/AHA guideline on Acute Coronary Syndrome, Surviving Sepsis 2026, GI Bleeding, Hepatorenal Syndrome and much more on the core conditions in Hospital Medicine!
Converge Brazil is taking place November 18-19, 2026 at Instituto Caldeira in Porto Alegre. This dynamic conference features clinical practice and individual reasoning sessions, highlighting broader topics that shape the future of hospital medicine. Attendees will explore epidemiology and health systems, quality and patient safety, teamwork, healthcare management, and the evolving role of technology and AI in healthcare.
Over 300 million patients undergo surgical procedures worldwide, and the age and medical complexity of this patient population continues to increase. All these patients require preoperative assessment, intraoperative management, and postoperative care. Because the breadth of knowledge in perioperative medicine, which includes the diverse disciplines of anesthesiology, internal medicine, and surgery, is vast, many practitioners may not have up-to-date information that is critical to clinical practice.
The curriculum for this course was specifically created to address the needs of clinicians who provide care for patients before, during, and after surgery based on examination of the evidence from peer reviewed literature, recent research, feedback from course participants, and input from expert colleagues inside and outside Johns Hopkins. As the established leader in perioperative medicine, this course aims to provide practitioners with the most up-to-date knowledge necessary to deliver effective, evidence-based care by affecting healthcare practices at the level of the individual and the larger health system.