Comprehensive updates, advances, and best practices to optimize inpatient care
Harvard Update in Hospital Medicine 2025 is a four-day, live, online continuing education program designed to provide hospital-based clinicians with the most current, evidence-based updates and best practices to optimize inpatient care.
This comprehensive curriculum covers more than 30 core topics central to hospital medicine — from cardiology, infectious diseases, and critical care to endocrinology, geriatrics, psychiatry, and pain management. Faculty experts from Harvard Medical School, including leading hospitalists and subspecialists, distill the latest research, clinical guidelines, and expert consensus into practical “bottom-line” recommendations for real-world application.
* Date of Original Release: November 3–6, 2025
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Best practices for management of common problems in hospital medicine Seminal studies and updates in the literature Recent guidelines changes and recommendations Expert opinions where the data are lacking Pearls for interpreting common diagnostic studies
HARVARD UPDATE IN HOSPITAL MEDICINE 2025
HARVARD UPDATE IN HOSPITAL MEDICINE 2025 TOPICS
Day 1. Monday, November 3, 2025 (9)
Welcome and Introductions
1. Can’t-Miss Radiology Diagnoses – Jennifer W. Uyeda, MD
2. Anticoagulation and Hypercoagulable States – Jean M. Connors, MD
3. Rapid-Fire Hematology Cases – Alfred Lee, MD, PhD
4. Inpatient Management of Patients with Psychiatric Disease – Sejal B. Shah, MD
5. Best Practices in Delirium Management – Shoshana Streiter, MD
6. A Review of Common Clinical Scenarios in the Management of Atrial Fibrillation – Yee-Ping Sun, MD
7. Updates in the Diagnosis and Management of C. diff – John J. Ross, MD, CM, FIDSA
8. Improving the Evaluation and Management of Syncope – Kapil Kumar, MD
Day 2. Tuesday, November 4, 2025 (10)
1. Evidence-Based Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes – Marc S. Sabatine, MD, MPH
2. Updates in Allergy and Immunology – Paige G. Wickner, MD, MPH
3. Difficult Dermatology Cases for the Hospitalist – Alexandra P. Charrow, MD
4. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections and Common Mimics – Adam D. Lipworth, MD
5. Pain Pointers – Practical Approaches to Managing Acute Pain in the Hospital – Morgan C. Esperance, MD
6. Goals of Care Conversations in Hospital Medicine – Richard E. Leiter, MD
7. Current Strategies and Common Questions in the Management of Urinary Tract Infections – Sigal Yawetz, MD
8. CKD and ESRD Management for the Hospitalist – Gearoid M. McMahon, MBBCh
9. Management of Critical Illness Before ICU Transfer – Rebecca M. Baron, MD
10. Recent Advances in Heart Failure Management – Anju Nohria, MD
Day 3. Wednesday, November 5, 2025 (9)
1. Cirrhosis for the Hospitalist – Anna E. Rutherford, MD, MPH
2. GI Bleed – What a Hospitalist Needs to Know – Tyler M. Berzin, MD, MS
3. Care of the Hospitalized Patient with HIV – Paul E. Sax, MD
4. Evidence-Based Management of COPD – Scott L. Schissel, MD, PhD
5. Antibiotics – A Comprehensive Update and Pearls for the Hospitalist, Part I – Jennifer A. Johnson, MD
6. Antibiotics – A Comprehensive Update and Pearls for the Hospitalist, Part II – Jennifer A. Johnson, MD
7. Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients – Michael Klompas, MD
8. Management of Bacteremia – Michael Klompas, MD
9. Do I Really Need Meropenem? Common ID Curbsides – Hayden S. Andrews, MD
Day 4. Thursday, November 6, 2025 (8)
1. Choosing the Best View – Patient-Centered Cardiovascular Imaging for Coronary Artery Disease – Diana Lopez, MD
2. Centering Equity in Hospital Medicine – Michelle Morse, MD, MPH and Bram Wispelwey, MD, MS, MPH
3. State-of-the-Art Management of Pancreatitis and Biliary Tract Disease – Linda S. Lee, MD
4. Evidence-Based Approaches to Inpatient Hyperglycemia – Nadine E. Palermo, DO
5. Ischemic Stroke in Hospital Medicine – Alexis T. Roy, MD
6. Let’s Rheuminate – Answers to Common Questions in Inpatient Rheumatology – Michael A. Diiorio, MD
7. Current and Emerging Concepts for Preoperative Evaluation – Adam C. Schaffer, MD
8. Challenges and Conundrums in Hospital Medicine – Elizabeth M. Petersen, MD, MPH
Study Hall/Pre-Recorded Lectures (9)
1. Rapid-Fire Electrolyte Cases for the Hospitalist: Na, Ca – David A. Krakow, MD
2. Rethinking Common Labs: Pearls for the Hospitalist – David A. Krakow, MD
3. Pregnancy: What a Hospitalist Needs to Know – Meghan Rudder, MD
4. Hospital Management of PE and DVT – Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD
5. ECG: Can’t-Miss Diagnoses – Sanjay Divakaran, MD
6. Acute Kidney Injury: Cases for the Hospitalist – Emily S. Robinson, MD, MPH
7. Inpatient Endocrinology Pearls – J. Carl Pallais, MD, MPH
8. Alcohol Withdrawal: A Case-Based Approach for the Hospitalist – Lisa W. Vercollone, MD
9. Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) – Lisa W. Vercollone, MD
