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    Make the Most of Media Opportunities

    October 3, 2022

    It’s the sign of the times—24-hour news cycles, information at your fingertips, and “experts” everywhere willing to share their voices. During the last two years especially, health care...

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    Celebrating Women in Hospital Medicine

    September 1, 2022

    September is Women in Medicine Month, a time to inspire, elevate, and recognize women and their roles in medicine. The following SHM members—recommended by members of The Hospitalist’s editorial...

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    Workforce Issues

    April 1, 2022

    Silver linings emerge for hospitalists For Elisabeth Souther, MD, chief of hospital medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a rural, academic hospital with almost 400 beds in Lebanon, N.H.,...

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    Hospitalists demonstrate resiliency in the face of challenge

    February 3, 2022

    Dr. Verplanke As he reflected upon his days as a hospitalist and unit medical director within the division of hospital medicine at NYU Langone Health in New York, since the COVID-19 pandemic...

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    Addressing the nursing shortage

    January 7, 2022

    Dr. Hannapel With the onset of COVID-19, the existing nurse shortage only worsened at many hospitals throughout the country. “COVID patients require an extra level of care due to the virus’s...

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    Hot-off-the-press insights on heart failure

    July 20, 2020

    This session provides literature updates for all types of heart failure patient scenarios.

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    Improve palliative care and pain management

    March 12, 2019

    “There aren’t enough palliative care physicians for all hospitalized patients with serious illnesses, so it’s vital that hospitalists have the necessary skills and confidence to practice primary palliative care."

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    Get hands-on with point-of-care ultrasound

    March 12, 2019

    “It is the SHM annual meeting’s longest-standing pre-course, and it has sold out every year since its inception. Learners always rate it highly.”

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    SHM names new Masters in Hospital Medicine

    March 12, 2019

    The two hospitalists receiving the MHM designation at HM19 are Dr. Brian Harte and Dr. Samir Shah.

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    Learn to employ cultural humility

    April 11, 2018

    Many health care providers are guilty of having implicit or unconscious biases against patients, which can negatively affect the care they give.