In 2006 the Society of Hospital Medicine published the core competencies in hospital medicine (Dressler et al (2006), Journal of Hospital Medicine, 1: 48–56. doi: 10.1002/jhm.6) which included the list of topics below.  Associated with each topic are on-line resources for guidelines and learning more about each topic.  In general, the links are directed to the resource header since they are frequently changing directly linking the resource would cause frequent link disruption.