UW Medicine Updates in Hospital Medicine 2025

Introduction

The UW Medicine Updates in Hospital Medicine 2025 is a comprehensive inpatient medicine conference focused on evidence-based management of common and complex conditions encountered in modern hospital practice. Presented by UW Medicine, the course provides clinically practical updates in cardiology, critical care, neurology, infectious diseases, perioperative medicine, pain management, and hospital-based quality improvement.

The curriculum integrates:

• Acute inpatient medicine
• Hospitalist practice updates
• Cardiovascular emergencies
• Critical care medicine
• Stroke and neurologic emergencies
• Perioperative management
• Infectious disease management
• Pulmonary embolism care
• Opioid use disorder treatment
• Evidence-based hospital medicine

into a practical educational program designed to improve inpatient outcomes, reduce low-value care, and strengthen modern hospital-based clinical decision-making.

Course Overview

📚 Program: UW Medicine Updates in Hospital Medicine 2025

🏛️ Presented by UW Medicine

📅 Dates: October 16–17, 2025

📍 Format: Live virtual conference via Zoom

🎥 Included Content

• 19 video lectures (.mp4)
• 19 audio recordings (.mp3)
• 19 subtitle files (.vtt)
• 22 PDF presentations

💾 Course Size: 9.25 GB

🎓 Educational Format

• Expert-led hospital medicine lectures
• Evidence-based inpatient reviews
• Guideline-focused updates
• Clinical practice improvement sessions
• Case-based hospital medicine discussions

The conference delivers practical inpatient medicine education applicable to hospitalists and acute care clinicians.

Educational Focus

The program focuses on:

• Hospital medicine updates
• Inpatient cardiology management
• Critical care emergencies
• Neurologic emergencies
• Perioperative medicine
• Infectious disease management
• Pulmonary embolism treatment
• Acute pain management
• Opioid use disorder care
• Quality improvement in hospital medicine

The curriculum emphasizes evidence-based strategies for improving inpatient clinical outcomes and hospital care delivery.

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, learners strengthen their ability to:

• Apply updated ACC/AHA cardiovascular guidelines in hospitalized patients
• Manage acute decompensated heart failure and arrhythmias
• Evaluate and treat neurologic emergencies including stroke
• Address oncologic emergencies associated with immunotherapies
• Implement evidence-based acute pain management strategies
• Treat opioid use disorder in the fentanyl era
• Improve inpatient wound care management
• Reduce low-value care using “Things We Do for No Reason” principles
• Apply age-friendly hospital medicine practices
• Manage infectious disease cases, penicillin allergies, and pulmonary embolism
• Review practice-changing clinical literature relevant to hospital medicine

The educational material combines evidence-based inpatient medicine with practical bedside management strategies.

Cardiology & Acute Cardiovascular Care

A major educational component focuses on inpatient cardiovascular management.

Covered Areas

• Acute decompensated heart failure
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• ACC/AHA guideline updates
• Inpatient cardiovascular stabilization
• Evidence-based heart failure treatment
• Arrhythmia management strategies

The curriculum highlights contemporary inpatient cardiology care relevant to hospital medicine practice.

Neurologic & Oncologic Emergencies

Dedicated sessions review time-sensitive neurologic and oncology-related hospital emergencies.

Topics Include

• Stroke management
• Neurologic emergency evaluation
• Immunotherapy-related complications
• Oncologic emergencies
• Acute neurologic stabilization
• Inpatient diagnostic strategies

Participants strengthen practical approaches to managing critically ill neurologic and oncology patients.

Critical Care & Perioperative Medicine

The course includes advanced updates in inpatient critical care and perioperative management.

Educational Topics

• Critical care medicine updates
• Perioperative evaluation
• Inpatient risk stratification
• Acute deterioration management
• Hospital-based emergency care

The sessions emphasize practical strategies for complex hospitalized patients.

Acute Pain Management & Opioid Use Disorder

A specialized educational focus involves modern approaches to pain medicine and addiction care.

Covered Areas

• Acute inpatient pain management
• Opioid stewardship
• Opioid use disorder treatment
• Fentanyl-era addiction medicine
• Safe analgesic prescribing
• Multimodal pain strategies

The curriculum highlights evidence-based approaches to balancing pain control and patient safety.

Infectious Diseases & Pulmonary Embolism

The program reviews common and high-impact inpatient infectious and thromboembolic conditions.

Topics Include

• Infectious disease management
• Penicillin allergy evaluation
• Pulmonary embolism diagnosis and treatment
• Evidence-based antimicrobial strategies
• Hospital infection management

Participants gain practical insight into inpatient infectious disease and thrombosis care.

Reducing Low-Value Care

A defining feature of the conference is emphasis on quality improvement and high-value medicine.

Educational Themes

• “Things We Do for No Reason”
• Reducing unnecessary interventions
• Evidence-based utilization practices
• High-value hospital medicine
• Patient-centered inpatient care

The sessions encourage thoughtful clinical decision-making and reduction of avoidable healthcare utilization.

Age-Friendly & Patient-Centered Hospital Medicine

The course also highlights care principles for vulnerable inpatient populations.

Included Topics

• Age-friendly hospital care
• Geriatric inpatient management
• Functional assessment strategies
• Safer hospitalization practices
• Multidisciplinary patient-centered care

The curriculum emphasizes improving safety and outcomes in hospitalized older adults.

Educational Experience

The conference combines:

• Expert-led hospital medicine lectures
• Evidence-based inpatient updates
• Guideline-focused cardiovascular education
• Critical care reviews
• Quality improvement strategies
• Case-based inpatient learning

The educational format emphasizes practical application of modern hospital medicine principles.

Why This Course Stands Out

Comprehensive Inpatient Medicine Coverage

Reviews major conditions encountered in modern hospital medicine practice.

Strong Evidence-Based Focus

Integrates updated guidelines, practice-changing studies, and contemporary inpatient management strategies.

Practical Hospitalist-Oriented Education

Designed specifically for clinicians managing complex hospitalized patients.

Quality Improvement Integration

Emphasizes reduction of low-value care and optimization of inpatient clinical efficiency.

Modern Acute Care Topics

Includes opioid use disorder, immunotherapy complications, perioperative medicine, and age-friendly care.

Clinical Value

The UW Medicine Updates in Hospital Medicine 2025 delivers advanced inpatient medicine education through integrated coverage of:

• Hospital medicine updates
• Acute cardiovascular care
• Heart failure and arrhythmias
• Stroke and neurologic emergencies
• Critical care medicine
• Perioperative management
• Infectious disease treatment
• Pulmonary embolism management
• Acute pain medicine
• Opioid use disorder care
• High-value hospital medicine
• Age-friendly inpatient care

The combination of evidence-based lectures, inpatient management strategies, quality improvement education, and multidisciplinary acute care updates makes this conference highly valuable for clinicians practicing hospital medicine and inpatient care.

4. Topics

Topics (19 Lectures):

1. 2024 ACC-AHA Guidelines Review

2. Age Friendly Care in the Hospital

3. Endocrine Emergencies

4. Evaluation and Management of Arrhythmias

5. Evaluation and Management of Stroke-Neurologic Emergencies

6. ID Cases from Audience

7. Management of Acute Pain

8. Management of Pulmonary Embolism

9. Medical Jeaopardy

10. Oncologic Emergencies and Adverse Effects of Immunotherapies

11. Penicillin Allergy

12. Rheumatology

13. Things We Do for No Reason

14. Top 10 Practice Changing Articles in Hospital Medicine 2024-2025 – Part 1

15. Top 10 Practice Changing Articles in Hospital Medicine 2024-2025 – Part 2

16. Updates in Management of Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

17. Updates in Opioid Use Disorder in the Fentanyl Era

18. Updates in Perioperative Medicine

19. Wound Care