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Let’s Get Physical: Exam Maneuvers that Can Improve Your Clinical Judgment
- Amanda Green, MD, FACP, HMDC, CPPS, SFHM
July 1, 2024
In this era where point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) may make the stethoscope obsolete, Dr. Daniel D. Dressler, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, started his...
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Challenging Anticoagulation Scenarios: How to Have Smooth Sailing through Choppy Waters
- Arunab Mehta, MD, MEd, FHM
July 1, 2024
Keeping abreast of updates in anticoagulation guidelines is important for physicians to provide optimal patient care. Multiple changes to recommendations for anticoagulation have been made in the...
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Kill the Mortality—Building Successful Inpatient Mortality Reduction Programs in Academic and Rural Health Systems
- Venkat P. Gundareddy, MBBS, MPH, FACP, SFHM
July 1, 2024
The session began with a clear statement of its objectives, focusing on how quality programs view mortality, the methodology behind it, approaches to reducing mortality, and the impact hospitalists...
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Opioid Use Disorders in Adolescents
- Vanessa McFadden, MD, PhD, SFHM
July 1, 2024
Dr. Trope, a pediatric hospitalist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., and an affiliated clinical instructor at the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2023
- Jaclyn Vargas, MD;
- Merritt ten Hope, DO
July 1, 2024
The year 2023 brought us waves of advances in technology, increasing vaccine hesitancy, an ongoing behavioral health crisis, and civil unrest overseas which continues to echo throughout the...
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The Kinetic Life: Your Power to M.O.V.E. Through Change with Intention
- Amanda Green, MD, FACP, HMDC, CPPS, SFHM
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
- Justin Miller, MD, FACP, FHM
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
- Venkat P. Gundareddy, MBBS, MPH, FACP, SFHM
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
- Elizabeth Herrle, MD, FACP, FHM
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...