There must be a way to tie the bread-and-butter topics of hospital medicine together so they are relevant yet fun, thought James S. Newman, FACP, director of the new hospital medicine precourse at Internal Medicine 2011, as he planned the course agenda last year.
“Instead of disparate lectures on this and that, I thought, ‘The course should follow a hospitalization from admission to discharge.’ Then I thought of the fact that so much of our testing and lectures in medicine is case-based, which is how I got the idea to make the course about the sequence of one patient's hospitalization,” said Dr. Newman, a hospitalist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. and the editorial advisor for ACP Hospitalist.
The precourse, which runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, starts with the admission of fictional patient Francis Xavier, a 78-year-old man admitted directly to the hospital service from a nursing home with fever and myalgias. The admission scenario is a springboard for a short introductory talk on the administrative and historical aspects of admission, including utilization review, Dr. Newman said.
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