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    SIG Spotlight: Research

    May 1, 2025

    Being the newest anything can be both a blessing and a curse. For SHM’s Research Special Interest Group, which just formed in October 2024, the positives of being so new are that the group is...

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    Chapter Spotlight: NC Triangle

    May 1, 2025

    Look, anything good enough for the iconic character of Crash Davis in the movie Bull Durham is good enough for hospital medicine. At least, so says the attendance of the Durham Bulls social event...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Arizona

    February 3, 2025

    The Arizona chapter of SHM faced a challenge in 2021 when its founding hospitalists saw their practice shift from inpatient medicine to primary care. At that point, many of the members of the chapter...

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    SIG Spotlight: Hospital at Home

    February 3, 2025

    Everyone knows the concept of hospital at home care. It’s institutional-level medical treatment delivered in the confines of a Cape Cod or a two-bedroom apartment, either in person or through...

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    SIG Spotlight: Palliative Care

    December 2, 2024

    For Elizabeth Gundersen, MD, FAAHPM, FHM, chair of SHM’s Palliative Care Special Interest Group, caring for patients at the end of their lives is a labor of love. But, in death just like life,...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Long Island

    December 2, 2024

    For some early career hospitalists, it can take years to realize the value of networking. Some practitioners in their first years on the job can get caught up in the day-to-day work and not...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Nebraska

    November 1, 2024

    Mohammed Zalabani, MD, FHM, had just stepped away from a directorship role and was looking for less leadership responsibility and more time with “my kids and my family and my house and my...

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    SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    November 1, 2024

    Medical schools teach a lot of material in a short time, and residencies and fellowships help round out the training that makes hospitalists good at what they do. But nowhere in that learning curve...

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    SIG Spotlight: Hospitalist Well-Being

    October 1, 2024

    A safe, compassionate space to address the systemic nature of the problem Well-being, at least in hospitalist circles, can’t mean a once-a-year yoga session. In the view of, Swati Mehta, MD,...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Pittsburgh

    October 1, 2024

    Reimagining the chapter as members and their needs evolve In Pittsburgh, someone who identifies with the city is called a Yinzer. And Yinzers tend to stick around. That’s as true in the old steel...