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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.
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Using data to drive quality improvement projects
April 11, 2018
Attendees will learn how to develop balanced metrics for quality improvement projects, understand distinctions between quality improvement and traditional research projects, and identify how different measures of the same data can tell vastly different stories.
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Aim to achieve ‘zero harm’
April 10, 2018
“But the goal of zero harm should become everyone’s new mantra and, to get there, health care providers need to add new dimensions to their typical quality improvement and patient safety efforts.”
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Practical changes for improving practice management
April 8, 2018
“We can’t effectively use the same approaches that other medical specialties use to ensure we have successful practices.”
