Evidence-Based Hospital Medicine CME
Step into the Management of the Hospitalized Patient 2026 online video CME program and learn from top UCSF faculty. Under the direction of Dr. Robert M. Wachter, they tackle the inpatient clinical issues you face most often, spotlighting the latest advances and today’s biggest controversies in hospital medicine.
Along with practical updates on substance abuse, delirium, AI, and diagnostic reasoning, this continuing medical education course will help you to diagnose more accurately, build evidence-based workups, apply modern therapies, answer patient questions with confidence, and integrate new technology across a broad range of inpatient topics, including:
- Sepsis and shock
- Heart failure
- Palliative care
- IBD
- Hematologic and cardiac emergencies
- Respiratory infections
- And more…
* Date of Original Release: February 15, 2026
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, participants should be able to:
- Improve diagnosis of common inpatient clinical presentations
- Perform an evidence-based work-up for common inpatient clinical presentations
- Apply modern therapeutic approaches to common inpatient disorders
- More effectively respond to patients’ questions in hospital medicine using the latest clinical literature
MANAGEMENT OF THE HOSPITALIZED PATIENT 2026
MANAGEMENT OF THE HOSPITALIZED PATIENT 2026 TOPICS
1. Updates in the Management of Sepsis and Shock – Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAS
2. Management of the Hospitalized Patient with Heart Failure – Jonathan Davis, MD, MPHS
3. Updates in Thrombosis and Anticoagulation – Tracy Minichiello, MD
4. Tough Cases in Heart Failure – Jonathan Davis, MD, MPHS
5. Updates on AI in Hospital Medicine – Robert M. Wachter, MD and Sara Murray MD, MAS
6. Workup and Management of Agitation and Delirium in the Hospital – Erik Levinsohn, MD
7. Clinical Problem-Solving Exercise – Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD
8. Palliative Care Pearls – Steven Z. Pantilat, MD
9. Inpatient Care of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease -Sara Lewin, MD
10. Thromboembolism Q&A: Cases and Controversies -Tracy Minichiello, MD and Erika Price, MD, MPH
11. Tough Cases in Medical Consultation – H. Quinny Cheng, MD
12. Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation: The New Guidelines – H. Quinny Cheng, MD
13. Inpatient Hematology Topics: TTP, ITP, HLH, and Severe Anemia – Andrew Leavitt, MD
14. Electrolyte Disorders in Hospital Medicine – Bradley A. Sharpe, MD
15. Respiratory Viral Infections in the Hospital – Flu, Covid, RSV, and More – Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD
16. Cardiac Ischemia in the Hospital: Pearls for Hospitalists – Lucas Zier, MD, MS
17. Common Arrhythmias in the Hospitalized Patient – Gregory Marcus, MD, MAS
18. Common Arrhythmias in the Hospitalize Patient – Hospital Medicine: The Year in Review – Bradley A. Sharpe, MD and Bradley Monash, MD
