Hospitalist Resources from the American College of Physicians

What ACP Offers Hospitalists

ACP provides internal medicine physicians with a wide variety of resources designed exclusively for hospitalists as well as curated content related to practicing inpatient medicine.

Membership Options for Hospitalists

Not a member? Options available for trainees, physicians, and allied health professionals.

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CME and Education for Hospitalists

Whether you’re trying to stay current or preparing for the Internal Medicine - Inpatient LKA or exam, ACP has a number of educational opportunities focused on hospital medicine.

ACP MKSAP for Hospitalists CME, FPHM, and MOC Prep

The new all‑digital ACP MKSAP delivers high‑yield hospitalist content to strengthen your clinical knowledge and uncover gaps. Easily select questions for hospital, ICU, emergency, and urgent care settings with intuitive filters. Discover newly expanded content for hospitalists (updated guidance on results disclosure, procedural safety, complication management, perioperative medicine, inpatient pain), plus a newly expanded and renamed Critical Care and Hospital Medicine section, designed for faster access to hospitalist‑focused content. In August 2026, ACP MKSAP will update its Confirmation of Relevant Education (CORE) feature with Ambulatory, Inpatient, and Combo quizzes for highly relevant self-assessment.

On-Demand Hospitalist CME with ACP Hospital Med 100

Ensure your entire team is equipped with the latest hospital medicine insights for a full year. Access more than 100 hours of on-demand hospital medicine sessions from ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting 2025 and more. This focused CME/MOC package also includes sessions from the 2025 Updates series, select 7-hour course intensives, the ACP Board Review Sampler, and the ACP Audio app.

Hospitalist Sessions at the Internal Medicine Meeting

This is the largest meeting for hospital medicine physicians. Gain valuable knowledge from national experts in hospitalist-dedicated sessions. Sessions focus on clinical topics, quality and safety, team-based approaches, and transitions of care for physicians who primarily practice in an in patient setting. A full day Hospital Medicine Course is typically offered a day before the Internal Medicine Meeting begins. With more peers to connect with, there's more opportunity to grow your network and career.

Online Learning Courses for Hospitalists

Coding for Clinicians—Learn to accurately document and code inpatient services to reflect the full complexity of your patient care, reduce compliance risk, and optimize reimbursement.

Hospital Medicine Education in the ACP Online Learning Center—Access podcasts, videos, multimedia content, and journal articles covering a wide range of clinical, administrative, and humanities topics relevant to inpatient medicine.

ACP’s Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Courses—Expand your knowledge of POCUS care in hospital settings by attending one of ACP’s POCUS courses and completing the online learning activities. Learn to streamline care and diagnose your patients faster.

Career Development and Well Being Resources

ACP offers Career and Professional Development resources and opportunities to support your personal and professional growth and career journey. Learn more at ACP’s Career and Professional Development Center.

Physician Peer Coaching

Work with experienced physician coaches to clarify your professional vision, set achievable goals, and drive meaningful change. You can also train to become a physician peer coach.

Physician Well-being

Access evidence-based resources, trusted tools, and peer support to protect your well-being and help foster communities of wellness within your hospital or health system, including ACP's I.M. Emotional Support Hub and Well-being Champion Curriculum.

Team-Based Care Toolkit

This toolkit shares best practices and real-life examples of successful team-based clinical care models to help you foster productive and purposeful internal medicine teams.

Personal and Professional Development Webinars

On-demand webinars covering topics such as financial preparedness, leadership, medical informatics, and more are designed to fit into busy hospitalist schedules.

Financial Well-being Program

Navigate your financial future with ACP's member-exclusive tools and resources to help you plan and make wise financial decisions, including paying off student loans, managing credit, and more.

Career Connection

ACP’s online marketplace lets you post hospitalist openings or explore positions nationwide.

Leadership, Fellowship, and Academic Opportunities

Enhance your CV with the following ACP resources:

Become an ACP Fellow (FACP)

The FACP credential signifies professional credibility and helps enhance and advance your career.

Submit to Annals of Internal Medicine

The journal publishes a wide variety of original research, review articles, practice guidelines, and commentary relevant to clinical practice, health care delivery, public health, health care policy, medical education, ethics, and research methodology.

Submit to Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases (AIMCC)

AIMCC publishes high-quality clinical case reports, case series, and image and video cases from across the spectrum of medicine. AIMCC is co-published by the American College of Physicians and the American Heart Association, two trusted publishers in medicine.

ACP National Abstract Competitions

Medical Students, Resident/Fellows, and Early Career Physicians who are ACP members are eligible to participate in the National Abstract Competitions.

Volunteer Opportunities

Connect and engage with like-minded internal medicine physicians through volunteering opportunities.

Hospital Medicine Publications and Textbooks

Stay on top of the latest news and information in hospital medicine.

ACP Hospitalist

This weekly online magazine covers all aspects of hospital medicine, including clinical care, technology, staffing, salary trends, patient safety, and more.

Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls, Second Edition

Focuses on the critical process of assessing and managing patients with medical comorbidities before undergoing surgical procedures. Features NEW chapters on cardiac biomarkers, postoperative nausea and vomiting, and postoperative urinary retention.  This text will ensure that you make the right decisions through every step of the process.

Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, Second Edition

This comprehensive textbook covers clinical, organizational, and administrative areas central to the practice of hospital medicine. It has been updated to reflect the evolving practice responsibilities of hospitalists.

Teaching and Coaching in the Hospital

The newest volume in the essential Teaching Medicine series is a necessary resource for all current and future medical educators and leaders. It provides practical guidance to prepare for and supervise rounds, deliver effective bedside presentations, develop strong clinical reasoning skills in your learners, foster a healthy learning culture, and much more.

Annals’ Specialty Collection: Hospital Medicine

Stay informed on hospital medicine topics with this compendium that includes articles about contemporary issues, innovative practices, and recent research findings. They provide comprehensive overviews that give clinicians, researchers, and hospitalists pivotal insights into best practices and future directions for hospital-based care.

Clinical Decision Support and Practice Tools

ACP has a variety of clinical support tools designed to help physicians stay up to date and treat their patients effectively.

DynaMedex

This powerful tool delivers fast, reliable answers busy hospitalists need to support informed clinical decision making at the point of care. Now with Dyna AI—an integrated AI search tool—expert-curated, evidence-based information is delivered within seconds.

Clinical Guidelines

ACP provides clinicians with recommendations based on the best available evidence; to inform clinicians of when there is no evidence; and, finally, to help clinicians deliver the best health care possible.

Critical Care Video Shorts

This unique training series provides essential content needed for intensive care practice. Presented in 2- to 5-minute key segments in an engaging animated whiteboard style, these educational videos can be viewed any time, in any order and are mobile-friendly.

Health Equity Through Diagnostic Decision Making

ACP’s interactive series on diagnostic excellence offers evidence-based strategies clinicians can use to improve diagnostic decision making by mitigating the effects of unconscious bias related to race, ethnicity, gender, and other identities, leading to improved outcomes for patients.

High Value Care Resources

ACP's High Value Care initiative aims to improve health, avoid harms, and eliminate wasteful practices. These resources can be used in your practice and/or to train residents to make cost-conscious decisions.

Quality Improvement Curriculum

This curriculum is designed to help clinicians and hospitalists engage in quality improvement projects that are meaningful and put the clinician in the driver’s seat. The curriculum focuses on simple, core concepts that can be applied to help achieve meaningful quality goals in a practical manner.

Learning Hubs

ACP offers a collection of clinical resources to help hospitalists expand knowledge and apply best practices at the bedside and across care teams.

  • Pain Management—ACP’s Pain Management Learning Hub offers peer-to-peer education and pain management skills. Access interactive clinical cases, short modules, podcasts, and other practical tools to support safe, effective, and patient-centered pain care in the hospital setting.
  • Obesity Management—ACP’s Obesity Management Learning Hub was created to help clinicians build confidence in providing counseling and treatment to patients with overweight and obesity in a respectful, non stigmatizing way.
  • Sex and Gender—ACP’s Sex and Gender Health Learning Hub provides practical resources aimed to enhance your ability to address sexual, reproductive, and gender-related health care concerns with confidence.
  • Adult Immunization—Support preventive care during and after hospitalization with evidence-based immunization guidance, timely scientific updates, and patient education.
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)—Stay informed about the evolving role of AI in hospital medicine. The AI Resource Hub features curated guidance on the responsible use of generative AI in clinical care and education, an ACP policy position paper, and AI-powered patient simulation tools.

Online Learning Center

Explore a diverse library of online CME and MOC activities, free or discounted for ACP members, including content centered around high value care and quality improvement.