by Dr. Efren Manjarrez, MD, SFHM
As course director, I want to tell everybody why Hospital Medicine 2015, SHM’s annual meeting, is going to be the best hospitalist meeting to date. Throughout the year, I have been asked what will be different this particular year. Well, A LOT!
First, the committee looked at the pre-courses and decided to enhance a few offerings. Starting this year, we will be providing attendees a new module each year for the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) pre-course so that SHM members have the opportunity to complete a module every year. Secondly, we have asked the faculty of the Quality Improvement pre-course to gear this pre-course towards helping attendees with the ABIM Performance Improvement Module (PIM), guiding attendees on how to meet this MOC requirement. In this way, we are hoping that learners leave the pre-course with hard skills and educational end products.
One of the features of this year’s meeting that I am really excited about is that we are continuing to include and engage the pipeline of hospitalists, a challenge posed to SHM members by Past President Eric Howell. Hospital Medicine 2015 will feature a new educational track called Young Hospitalists for residents, medical students and early career hospitalists. The Young Hospitalists track is a full-day dedicated to future hospitalists.
Now let me focus for a moment on another new educational track we’re offering at Hospital Medicine 2015. Over the last few years, we have been hearing that you want the Annual Meeting to be more patient-centered. I received that feedback from some hospitalist friends of mine, from the SHM Town Hall at the end of Hospital Medicine 2014, from SHM President, Burke Kealey and SHM CEO, Larry Wellikson.
I’m pleased to inform you that we’ve heard your request, loud and clear. This year SHM and the Annual Meeting Committee are ensuring that Hospital Medicine 2015 will be more patient-centered in two ways. First of all, we will have a full day pre-course dedicated to the patient experience. Entitled, “Enhancing Communication Skills to Improve Patient and Provider Experience,” Dr. Diane Sliwka from UCSF and her faculty will offer interactive workshops and didactics to help attendees optimize their patient experience, from how to improve your skills interviewing patients to handling difficult patient/family encounters.
The second patient-centered offering is an educational track on the second day of the conference entitled, “The Doctor-Patient Relationship.” This track will complement the selections offered in the pre-course with sessions such as, “What to Do If You Get Sued,” “How to Facilitate End of Life Discussions/Discuss Prognosis”, and how to make assessments of medical capacity. As such, SHM understands that the patient’s experience has financial implications for its members now, so in my view, the Annual Meeting Committee delivered some course content that is spot on!
As you can see we are offering a substantial amount of new content this year at Hospital Medicine 2015 that we haven’t even come close to developing in years past. This year’s Annual Meeting is shaping up to be the best educational opportunity for all members of the hospitalist team. I hope you come to Hospital Medicine 2015 and join me for the great talks and of course, you can’t beat the Annual Meeting for the best networking in hospital medicine!
See you in DC!
Efren
P.S. Early registration deadline is February 2nd, so save some money and register early.
Efren C. Manjarrez, MD, SFHM is the Interim Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine and Associate Chief Medical Officer for the University of Miami Hospital. He graduated from the University Of California School of Medicine in San Diego and then completed a Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency at the University of Miami/ Jackson Memorial Hospital. After graduation, he co-founded one of the first Med-Peds hospitalist groups in the US. He was the first Director of Hospital Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He completed a Faculty Development Program in General Internal Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill as well as received advanced training in Quality Improvement at the Institute for Healthcare Research at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. He was previously the medical director for Hospital Medicine at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami for 5 years. He served as Sylvester’s Patient Safety Officer and Sylvester received a Health Grades Award for Patient Safety in August of 2013. He previously co-directed the Hospital Medicine Residency Track for the Internal Medicine Residency. Locally, he is the current President of the South Florida Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Nationally, he has served on multiple committees of the Society of Hospital Medicine and is the founding Chairman for International Hospitalists Section. He is course director for the SHM Annual Meeting in March 2015. His professional interests are the quality improvement, hand-off of hospitalized patients, perioperative cardiac care, and medical education.
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