Hospital Medicine 2025
February 5-7, 2025 ✱ Topnotch Resort, Stowe, VT
Overview
The course will provide practical approaches to common problems in hospital medicine informed by experts and the latest evidence.
The target audience is comprised of physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses practicing Hospital Medicine. Some of the clinicians will also be engaged in education, research, quality improvement, and management. The audience
may also include Hospital Medicine program administrators, resident physicians, and medical students with an interest in careers in Hospital Medicine.
Communicating with Compassion: Practical Skills for the Hospitalist - Optional Workshop
Location: Topnotch Resort
Thursday, February 6, 11:30-3:30 (Lunch included)
This course will utilize small-group learning that features cognitive mapping, deliberate practices with simulated patients, and just-in-time feedback.
Learn best practices for having patient-centered conversations about a serious illness diagnosis. These decisions are the foundation of building a trusting clinician-patient relationship. Learning outcomes for this course include:
1. Identify three steps to prepare a patient to hear serious news.
2. Discuss the use of a headline sentence to deliver the news.
3. Describe the two methods to approach patient and caregiver emotions.
Group size will be limited to 7 persons, allowing participants the safety and comfort of a small group setting to practice new skills with patient actors.
Curriculum powered by VitalTalk©, a national leader in evidence-based communication skills training.
Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) - Optional Workshop
Location (on campus): UVM SIM Lab, Burlington, VT
Wednesday, February 5 (Tentative Date), 7:30am-12:00pm
Point-of-care ultrasound has emerged as an important bedside tool in the management of acutely ill patients. This workshop combines high-yield didactic sessions with hands-on
training on live models. The workshop starts with a review of the basics of ultrasound, knobology and then explores a myriad of diagnostic ultrasound applications including focused cardiac ultrasound, thoracic and renal ultrasound to access
LV function, pericardial effusion, fluid management, pneumonia, pneumothorax, pleural effusion and hydronephrosis to name a few.
The course will be ideal for both beginners and more experienced providers to refine ultrasound skills. Expected faculty to attendee ratio is 1:3. This workshop will need a minimum of 8 registrants with a maximum of 18, so sign up early!