Course# MDM27P01
October 15 - 17, 2026
Overview
The UCSF Management of the Hospitalized Patient course, chaired by Bob Wachter, MD, is the longest-running and most popular CME course for hospitalists and others who care for hospitalized patients. Taught by UCSF’s top teachers, including Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Andy Josephson, Lekshmi Santhosh, Tracy Minichiello, and Bradley Sharpe, the course highlights recent evidence and current controversies, and blends lectures with multiple interactive workshops to promote active learning. Content areas include critical care, perioperative care, hospital neurology, infectious diseases, cardiology, and nephrology, as well as AI, diagnostic reasoning, and management of the patient with substance use disorder. All of this at the beautiful Hyatt Embarcadero in the heart of San Francisco’s waterfront district.
This course is presented by the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine and is sponsored by the Office of Continuing Medical Education, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. It also serves as the West Coast regional meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
What to Expect
Designed for hospitalists, internists, advanced practice providers, and other clinicians involved in inpatient care, this conference offers a dynamic combination of:
- Interactive sessions featuring expert-led discussions on common inpatient conditions.
- Case-based learning to apply evidencebased approaches and improve diagnostic and management skills.
- Focused updates on critical topics like cardiovascular conditions, infectious diseases, perioperative care, and more.
Objectives
An attendee completing the Management of the Hospitalized Patient course should be able to:
- Improve diagnosis of common inpatient clinical presentations;
- Perform an evidence-based work-up for common inpatient clinical presentations;
- Apply modern therapeutic approaches to common inpatient disorders;
- More effectively respond to patients’ questions in hospital medicine using the latest clinical literature.
- Integrate the latest technology tools in clinical practice.
Course Chair
Robert M. Wachter, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
About Dr. Wachter
Learn more about Robert M. Wachter, MD
The course that started it all returns for its 30th year!
This course serves as the West Coast Regional Meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine.