Project Summary:
The goal of this learning event is to bring up-to-date practice guidelines to hospitalists who manage a broad scope of disease.
As a consolidated, one-day event with overall low cost, this will be an excellent opportunity for participants to sharpen their clinical skills in a variety of high-yield areas. Organizers are focusing on common areas encountered in hospital medicine with complex and rapidly changing guidelines for management. For a generalist, these areas are difficult to keep up with due to the breadth of clinical pathology encountered by a hospital medicine provider. CME opportunities are often expensive and time-intensive for a busy practicing clinician, requiring travel to different areas of the country and associated costs of travel and accommodations.
A one-day regional conference at low cost will appeal to many providers with a full schedule. The information disseminated in the conference will directly help Wisconsin patients by ensuring that the clinicians caring for them are updated on the guidelines for common pathologies encountered in the Wisconsin population.
Learning objectives of this event include the following:
- Identify evidence-based guidelines for management of systolic and diastolic heart failure and strategies to prevent readmission.
- Identify evidence-based guidelines for management of sepsis and strategies to prevent further decompensation.
- Describe evidence-based guidelines for management of alcohol withdrawal and strategies to prevent readmission.
The event will provide focused management tips, delivered by specialists in their fields, as they incorporate a review of the underlying pathophysiology of the disease with the management options available. With these topics in particular, the national guidelines for standard-of-care have been rapidly in flux over the past five-10 years with many new treatment options and recommendations.
By providing a succinct overview of how these changes have evolved, organizers will help providers to be updated on complex topics.
The primary audience for this conference is hospitalists, with additional participation from physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and trainees engaged in hospital-based medicine. The program has been intentionally designed to center on hospitalist practice while incorporating perspectives from both academic and community clinicians. Speakers and committee representatives include experts from MCW, UW Madison, Froedtert ThedaCare, and the Veterans Affairs, ensuring a broad range of expertise relevant to inpatient care. Organizers anticipate attendance from these organizations as well as other regional community hospitals, supported by the conference’s convenient location, accessible format, and affordable single-day structure. The expected attendance is between 80 and 150 participants.