shmconverge.hospitalmedicine.orgThe Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Converge Conference 2024

for: Converge 2024 Register Converge 2024 Register Home | Converge 2025 admin 2024-05-07T06:41:58-07:00 Be at the Forefront of Hospital Medicine: SHM Converge is Heading to Las Vegas, April 22-25, 2025 Mandalay Bay Convention Center Next year, we’re taking the best in hospital medicine to the City of Lights.” Discover cutting-edge content and network with other hospitalists who share a similar interest in forward-focused ideas while also experiencing Las Vegas’s entertainment, seeing the Grand Canyon, and so much more. View Converge 2024 Schedule Register Today Enjoy Converge On Demand 2024 at Home. Tailored specifically for hospital medicine professionals, Converge On Demand 2024 brings you over 100 educational sessions including 10 additional sessions that weren’t offered onsite! Purchase Today Education You Need Re-energize and focus your practice with the latest research, best practices, and newest innovations in the field that can immediately be applied to improving patient care. Several hours of sessions will be presented each day in various educational tracks. You have the opportunity to create your own schedule with sessions that most appeal to you. Earn your CME credits for the year and have the option to leave with an on-demand library available for three years. Take the Mic! Share Your Experience. The SHM Converge 2025 call for speakers and topic proposals are open now through May 6, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Selected participants will be given the opportunity to present at our 2025 conference via a didactic, workshop, or keynote session. Submit Today Scientific Abstract Competition Submissions for Converge 2025 will open in September 2024. Abstracts will be presented to a national audience at SHM Converge and published in an online supplement of the Journal of Hospital Medicine . Many of the cutting-edge abstracts that are presented are also later published in leading medical journals in the field. View the ePoster Online Gallery from Converge 2024 Educational Tracks from 2024. Stay tuned for 2025 Track Updates! Academic/Research This combined track is for hospitalists who practice in academic medical centers, as well as for hospitalists in any setting interested in research. Every hospitalist, whether in a community or academic medical setting, who desires to bring greater rigor to their analysis as well as educational effectiveness will walk away from these sessions with new tools to implement. Clinical Updates Expert clinicians and educators deliver evidence-based updates from the literature in topic areas relevant to hospitalists. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion These sessions will address healthcare disparities and provide tools and strategies to foster an inclusive and equitable workplace. Early-Career The Early Career Hospitalist track is designed for new hospitalists, resident physicians and medical students interested in pursuing a career in Hospital Medicine. Designed by SHM’s physicians-in-training committee, which includes nationally recognized hospitalists with expertise in scholarship, career development, and medical education, this track aims to inspire future hospitalist leaders. Health Policy These sessions will focus on health policy development and implementation, with highlights of federal legislative and regulatory programs and processes that impact hospital medicine. NEW! Optimizing Care of Hospitalized Patients Expert presenters share best practices and ideas to deliver maximal value in hospital-based care via improving care quality and minimizing cost in these sessions. IT Content in this track features sessions on current and future technologies and tools that impact care delivery, practice efficiency, and provider and patient experience. Leadership For those who are current or aspiring leaders this track focuses on topics related to the unique aspects of leading in the hospital. These talks are full of practical tips to boost your leadership acumen. NEW! Late Breaking Catch up on the topics making the news and journals that impact our day-to-day practice. NP/PA Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants are critical to hospital medicine care delivery. This half-day track will discuss best practices in NP/PA utilization and collaboration. Palliative Care Hospitalists are optimally situated to provide palliative care to their patients. This track gives you tools to optimize your care of patients who would benefit from palliative care during or following their hospitalization. NEW! Past and Future of Hospital Medicine Don’t miss this track featuring talks related to the history of medicine, our current practices as well as the future of hospital medicine. Pediatric The Pediatric track offers a variety of clinical and systems-based topics. This track will feature sessions including clinical topics as well as things we do for no reason, pediatric style, and updates in topics important to those caring for children. Perioperative/Co-Management These sessions provide learners with evidence-based practices in medical management before and after surgery, including preoperative risk assessment and optimization, intraoperative issues that impact medical conditions, and postoperative management strategies, delivered by experts in perioperative medicine. Practice Management The importance of organizational infrastructure related to the practice of hospital medicine is well recognized, and information in this area continues to accumulate. Join these sessions to learn more about optimizing your hospital medicine group’s practice. Quality Given the importance of quality and patient safety in the delivery of healthcare, the Quality Track is offered to address the imperatives around development and implementation of improvement efforts in the hospital. Wellness These sessions provide attendees with skills and perspectives to foster resilience, identify and mitigate burnout, and promote sustainability in practice and in life. Workshops Featuring something for everyone, these are extended length sessions (90 minutes) held in smaller round-table settings for attendees to engage in a more interactive learning environment. Annual Conference Committee – 2025 Course Director Gopi Astik, MD, MS, FACP, SFHM Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL Assistant Course Director Alfred Burger, MD, MS, FACP, SFHM Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine Sign Up for More Information Please enter your email so we can notify you of Converge updates as they become available. × © Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). All Rights Reserved This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Facebook X Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Page load...