Update in Hospital Medicine

Overview

What you will study

Using a case-based format, lecturers of the Update in Hospital Medicine program offered by Harvard University 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.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• Are we underdiagnosing hypoxia? Racial bias in pulse oximetry

• Orthostatic vitals: are we doing them all wrong?  

• Updated 2023 GOLD guidelines: when to use triple therapy in COPD 

• DRESSed to kill: drug reactions and other can't-miss dermatology diagnoses 

• Pearls for interpreting ECGs, radiology, and everyday labs   

• The latest on bacteremia management 

• Fecal transplantation: the best first-line treatment for C. difficile?  

• COVID-19 treatment updates 

• Pearls for managing personality disorders in the hospital  

• A salty dispute: LR vs NS revisited  

• Going with the flozin: state-of-the-art CHF management   

• Dual antiplatelet therapy after stenting: are we overdoing it?  

• HELLP me: managing medical complications in pregnant and postpartum patients