20th Annual Southern Hospital Medicine Conference (SoHMC)

20th Annual Southern Hospital Medicine Conference (SoHMC) is organized by Ochsner Health System and will be held from Oct 02 - 05, 2019 at The Roosevelt New Orleans, A Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.

Pre Conference: Oct 02, 2019
Main Conference: Oct 03 - 05, 2019

Accreditation:
The Ochsner Clinic Foundation designates this live activity for a maximum of 18.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Extra credits available:
• Pre-Course #1: 8.0 (max)
• Pre-Course #2–3: 4.5 each (max)
• Ultrasound Short Course: 1.5 (per session)
• Practical Airway Short Course: 3.0 (max)
• Breakfast with the Expert: 1.0 (max per day)
• Lunch Seminar Series: 3.0 (max)

Need:
Healthcare providers who work in the hospital setting are constantly seeking new ideas and methods to improve and deliver high quality care, and are often the leaders in improving healthcare delivery and quality. Sharing of current quality processes and the most updated clinical pathways across different hospitals is important in advancing healthcare delivery in the US. This conference gives a proper forum for healthcare providers to update the newest concepts of hospital medicine and share their successes and failures of quality program implementation.

Purpose:
This conference provides practicing physicians, pharmacists and other healthcare providers with the newest concepts in advancing healthcare delivery in the hospital setting. It seeks to share updates in the newest advances in clinical disease management, practice management, quality improvement, pharmacology, medical technology, evidence-based standards of care, and practice guidelines.

Educational Objectives:
• The most important lessons and broad concepts participants should learn by the end of this conference are:
• Identify current barriers and components that affect the value of care provided by Hospital Medicine
• Demonstrate competence in core areas of clinical knowledge required by the American Board of Internal Medicine for the successful practice of medicine
• Apply concepts and training to improve the individual practice of medicine
• Incorporate important values of professionalism, quality, and accountability into the care of patients
• Implement necessary changes to the models of care present at each participant’s hospital/institution in order to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.