The SHM Connecticut Chapter is hosting an in-person event on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. ET. Join us for an engaging evening at The Library Wine Bar in Wallingford, where you'll have the opportunity to connect with fellow hospitalists, expand your professional network, and receive CME credit. As an added benefit, a professional photographer will be onsite during the networking hour offering complimentary headshots.
Our featured CME presentation is titled "When Not to Treat - Deprescribing & the Art of Doing Less," provided by Dr. Anisha Advani. By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:
- Articulate the cognitive and systemic forces that drive overtreatment in hospital medicine, including commission bias, care momentum, and anchoring, and recognize how these manifest in everyday hospitalist practice.
- Apply deprescribing principles to high-yield inpatient targets, including PPIs without clear indication, DOAC monotherapy over concurrent antiplatelet therapy in AFib with stable CAD (EPIC-CAD 2024, JACC meta-analysis 2025), statins in limited life expectancy, levothyroxine in subclinical hypothyroidism and end-of-life settings, and peripheral IV access.
- Apply diagnostic stewardship principles to high-yield over testing targets, including syphilis serology in cognitive impairment workup without risk factors and post-treatment test-of-cure urine cultures in asymptomatic patients, recognizing how reflexive ordering creates harmful downstream cascades.
- Distinguish asymptomatic bacteriuria from true UTI and apply current guideline-concordant management, including the 2025 AUA/CUA/SUFU recommendation against test-of-cure cultures in asymptomatic patients.
- Recognize uncertainty intolerance as a driver of overtreatment and identify practical strategies for building uncertainty tolerance, including structured reflection and reflective group practice, reframing restraint as an active clinical skill rather than passivity.
Accreditation Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure
The faculty and planners of these activities have no relevant relationships to disclose. All relevant relationships were mitigated prior to the start of this activity.
