BOSTON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Brigham and Women’s Hospital will co-host the Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2004 Annual Northeast Regional Meeting, “Hospitalists Challenging Conventional Wisdom,” on June 25-26 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.
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Designed to provide hospitalists and other medical professionals with updates in key areas of hospital medicine, the conference will feature nationally-recognized experts in inpatient care and other medical specialties. Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients.
“Hospitalists are on the front lines of inpatient care today,” said course director Sylvia McKean, MD, Medical Director of the Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospitalist Service. “We are proud to collaborate with the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) to bring area hospitalists and other physicians the opportunity to hear the latest information on the care of hospitalized patients.”
“With the mounting evidence that hospitalists play a key role in reducing patient lengths of stay, treatment costs and mortality rates, while improving efficiency and quality of care, the demand for hospitalists has more than doubled over the last 10 years,” said Laurence D. Wellikson, MD, FACP, executive director of the Society of Hospital Medicine. “We at SHM are making sure that every region of the country is prepared to meet this demand for new hospitalists, and that every new hospitalist has the highest level of training and education possible to respond to the complex challenges inherent in treating our nation’s most acutely ill patients.”
Meeting attendees will be challenged to consider new ways of dealing with traditional administrative and medical problems, including issues pertaining to quality measurement, risk management, and billing and coding, as well as clinical issues dealing with antimicrobial resistance, acute stroke, dementia, anticoagulants, and other medical problems. The meeting will also include a hospitalist job fair, a research abstracts competition and a clinical vignette competition.
The meeting is open to all hospitalists nationwide, to allied health professionals, to hospital and medical group administrators, practice management companies and residents interested in Hospital Medicine. The forum will provide practitioners an opportunity to learn and to network with other hospitalists, potential employers and healthcare professionals.
To register for the meeting, call 1-800-843-3360, or fill out the registration form at the SHM web site: http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/.
The Society of Hospital Medicine is the premier U.S. medical society representing hospitalists, physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Currently there are approximately 8,000 hospitalists nationwide with the number expected to grow to 30,000 by the end of the decade.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a 725-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare System, an integrated health care delivery network. Internationally recognized as a leading academic health care institution, BWH is committed to excellence in patient care, medical research, and the training and education of health care professionals. The hospital’s preeminence in all aspects of clinical care, including its hospitalist program, is coupled with its strength in medical research. A leading recipient of research grants from the National Institutes of Health, BWH conducts internationally acclaimed clinical, basic and epidemiological studies.
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