2019 Hospital and Internal Medicine Forum - LA

2019 Hospital and Internal Medicine Forum - LA is organized by Integrity Continuing Education Inc. and will be held on Jun 15, 2019 at Torrance Marriott Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Target Audience

This educational initiative has been designed for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and pharmacists who practice in hospital and internal medicine settings.

Accreditation

Accreditation Statement:
Credit Designation
Integrity Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Global Education Group designates this continuing education activity for 6.5 contact hours (0.65 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.

MOC:
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.5 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Nursing Continuing Education:
Credit Designation
This educational activity for 6.5 contact hours is provided by Global Education Group.

Program Overview

The 2019 Hospital and Internal Medicine Forum (HIMF) is an innovative, multi-supported, multifaceted educational initiative designed for hospital-based and internal medicine clinicians (physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and nurses). The program aims to provide important educational updates from leading experts on conditions that are commonly encountered by healthcare clinicians practicing in the hospital and various internal medicine settings.

HIMF is the premier regional meeting series for hospital- and internal medicine-based clinicians. It offers an exceptional educational experience delivered by nationally-renowned faculty. Participants will gain essential medical knowledge and be updated on recent advances in patient care, both within hospital medicine and across the broader discipline of internal medicine.

What’s new at HIMF in 2019?

The Hospital Medicine Summit has been rebranded to Hospital and Internal Medicine Forum such that it is more representative of clinicians in hospitals and large health systems and whose practice encompasses both hospital and clinic settings.

Learning Labs consisting of interactive patient studies and role-play activities on key topics to provide practical and patient-centered approaches to overcome common obstacles in patient care

Meet the Professor. Distinguished faculty will be available during the morning and afternoon breaks to address learners’ questions surrounding controversial issues, recent advances, and new developments in selected topics.

Learning Objectives

Keynote Session

• Discuss the causes of burnout in hospital- and internal medicine-based practice
• Describe strategies to overcome burnout
• Review strategies designed to address burnout in a team-based healthcare environment

Heart Failure Session

• Assess the type, stage, and functional classification of heart failure (HF) in hospitalized patients
• Develop a patient-centered, guideline-directed, evidence-based management plan for patients hospitalized with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
• Integrate data on newer agents approved for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction to ensure safe and appropriate administration in patients shortly after an acute episode
• Summarize the FDA recall of common heart failure medications and which agents have and have not been recalled
• Apply effective transitions of care strategies for the management of patients with HF

Hepatic Encephalopathy Session

• Identify symptoms and risk factors of Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) and approaches to diagnosis that are concordant with current guidelines recommendations
• Utilize available clinical and observational data to design effective acute and prophylactic treatment regimens for patients with HE
• Implement transitional and long-term care strategies to reduce rehospitalization in patients with HE

COPD Session

• Describe an approach to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment that is consistent with current evidence-based guideline recommendations
• Review the efficacy, safety, and utility of available therapies for the long-term management of COPD
• Match patients with appropriate COPD medication delivery devices

COPD Learning Lab
Available COPD Delivery Devices Review

• Review available drug delivery devices for long-term management of COPD
• Identify device attributes and device-specific considerations for patient education and device training

HF Learning Lab
Optimizing Transitions of Care for Patients with Heart Failure

• Describe best practices for optimal transition of patients with HF from acute-care to outpatient settings
• Develop patient education plans that engage patients and patient family members
• Identify appropriate follow-up strategies for patients with HF post-discharge

Diabetes Session

• Summarize correlations between macro and microvascular complications of uncontrolled T2DM and hospitalization
• Evaluate the risk/benefit profiles of novel T2DM therapies in achieving glycemic control and reducing vascular complications
• Employ evidence-based strategies to individualize treatment for diverse patients with T2DM to achieve glycemic control and reduce hospitalizations from vascular complications