Update in Hospital Medicine

Comprehensive updates, advances, and best practices to optimize inpatient care
Update in Hospital Medicine is a live online course, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.

This 4-day intensive program updates busy practitioners on current best practices in hospital medicine. The curriculum covers more than 30 core topics, with an emphasis on practical management of common problems:

• Heart failure
• Atrial fibrillation
• Bedside procedures
• Acute pain management
• Acute coronary syndromes
• Coronary imaging
• Diabetes
• Preoperative evaluation
• Psychiatric disorders
• ECG interpretation
• Radiology interpretation
• Bacteremia
• UTI
• Pneumonia
• Drug-resistant infections
• ICU transfer
• Skin and soft tissue infections
• Stroke/TIA
• C. difficile
• End-stage renal disease
• Endocrinology
• Interstitial lung and pleural disease
• Rheumatology
• HIV
• GI bleed
• Hematology
• Geriatrics
• Delirium
• Alcohol withdrawal
• Opioid use disorder
• COPD
• Laboratory interpretation
• Dermatology
• Electrolyte disorders
• Challenging hospital medicine cases
• Syncope
• Venous thromboembolism
• Pancreatobiliary disease
• Cirrhosis
• Antibiotics
• Serious illness conversations
• Pregnancy

Using a case-based format, lecturers distill recent evidence, guidelines, and expert opinion to offer “bottom line” recommendations. Faculty include both hospitalists and specialists, and rank among the best teachers at Harvard Medical School.

2026 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• ID pearls for choosing the right antibiotic, every time
• Coronary CTA vs. cath: how to pick the right patient for the right test
• Heart failure updates: should we stagger quadruple GDMT initiation?
• Challenging inpatient hyperglycemia: real-world cases
• Suzetrigine: a new non-opioid option for acute pain
• Rapid-fire, can’t-miss diagnoses: electrolytes, CBCs, LFTs, ECGs, imaging
• Buprenorphine microdosing: protocols you can use tomorrow
• Phenobarbital over benzodiazepines? Evolving strategies for alcohol withdrawal
• Factor XI inhibitors: less bleeding, same protection?
• Transfusion thresholds revisited: is liberal back?
• Antipsychotics for delirium: a risk-stratified approach
• Breakthrough stroke on anticoagulation: switch or stay?
• Pain management in patients with substance use disorder: best practices
• Stroke thrombolysis: is the window really 24 hours?
• Complicated UTIs: new guidelines, simpler decisions
• DAPT vs. SAPT: is less more?
• GLPs and surgery: when to hold them preoperatively
• Subcutaneous opioids
• Ultra-short-course antibiotics: where is the evidence strongest?
• Stable CAD and new AFib: time to drop the aspirin?
• Reduced-dose anticoagulation for patients with high bleeding risk
• Oral fecal microbiota therapy: moving toward first-line treatment for C. difficile?
• 7 vs. 14 days of antibiotics for bacteremia: how short is safe?
• Syncope: validated tools for real-time risk stratification
• ACEi/ARB before surgery: what new trial data tell us
• Managing medical complications in pregnancy and postpartum (HELLP and beyond)
• Early IV-to-PO antibiotic transitions: when and how
• Inpatient pain management: strategies for safer prescribing
• New-onset atrial fibrillation: is stroke risk lower than we thought?
• AI in hospital medicine: hype vs. bedside reality
• CGM inpatient use
• Updated sepsis definitions and phenotypes: does it change management?
• De-implementation: things we should stop doing in 2026

ACCESS TO RECORDINGS OF ALL SESSIONS 

In addition to being live streamed, all sessions of the course will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing for 90 days. All live streaming and recorded sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and other relevant credits, up to the approved maximum. (Note: Evaluations must be completed within 60 days of the conclusion of the course to receive CME credit.)