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The Kinetic Life: Your Power to M.O.V.E. Through Change with Intention
July 1, 2024
Dr. Green “One day you will share the story of where you are today and how you overcame it, and it will become someone else’s survival guide.” Brene Brown (via Parul Somani) Parul Somani...
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Pneumonia: Updates, Best Practices, and Controversies
July 1, 2024
In this clinically focused session, Dr. Joanna M Bonsall, associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine and hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, discussed portions of the...
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2024 Converge Shark Tank
July 1, 2024
Dr. Gundareddy Shark Tank was an innovative session where hospitalists competed in the space of innovation to improve care for their patients. The winner received a cool trophy, bragging rights,...
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Put Me in, Coach! The Essentials of Physician Coaching in Healthcare
July 1, 2024
“We’re not going to bore you!” Dr. Stephany, director of physician-provider organization support, clinical academic departments, and the leadership center for physicians at Children’s Mercy...
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Common Inpatient Cognitive Errors in Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning: Practical Applications for the Hospitalist
July 1, 2024
Everyone has cognitive biases that can lead to errors in diagnosis and have a profound impact on patient management decisions. In this thought-provoking session, Dr. Daniel Restrepo, a hospitalist...
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Pediatric Medical Overuse: Current Ways to Reduce Unnecessary Harm
July 1, 2024
“Everything we do as physicians has downstream consequences and cost,” said Dr. Nathan Money, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, as he and Dr. Danni...
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The Great Debate 2024: Controversies in Perioperative Medicine
July 1, 2024
There are a great many debates in medicine. This perioperative topic lecture looked at the controversy of perioperative atrial fibrillation and a second topic of post-operative troponin screenings....
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MED-TED Teaching Competition
July 1, 2024
The inaugural MED-TED teaching competition saw seven contestants compete against each other to teach a topic in under eight minutes. This innovative session included attending hospitalists with fewer...
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Inpatient Management of Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
July 1, 2024
This session was a high-yield overview of the management of hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) presented by Dr. South, an addiction medicine physician who treats patients with...
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Solving Major Problems: Major Bleeding and Major Surgery for Patients on Anticoagulants
July 1, 2024
This interactive session posed real-life scenarios for hospitalists who frequently deal with difficult anticoagulation questions and grounded it all with the evidence. The first case discussed was...