Continuing Medical Education

The Section of Hospital Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME) series offers bimonthly CME lectures to hospitalists on core topics relevant to the group.  Hospitalists at University of Chicago care for patients with complex specialized medical disorders including liver, lung and kidney transplants, multiple myeloma and lymphoma.  The CME series provides an opportunity for collaborating specialists to present relevant didactics.   The Section of Hospital Medicine runs journal club for the internal medicine residency program and these sessions are adapted and presented to the hospitalists as well.  Hospitalists present several of the CME sessions and these are some of the most popular and best-attended.

A sampling of topics includes:

• Imaging Wisely
• Hypoglycemia
• Point of Care Ultrasound for the Hospitalist
• Post-Acute Care
• Updates in Inpatient Buprenorphine Protocols and Process of Accreditation to Prescribe
• Decisional Capacity
• Teaching and Education for Clinical Hospitalists
• Update in Hospital Medicine: Review of the Literature
• Journal Club
• Telemetry Utilization
• How are Hospitals and Providers Evaluated?
• Cirrhosis Complications and Management
• Update in Hepatitis C
• Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma General Principles and Management
• Multiple Myeloma