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    Celebrating Black HM Professionals

    February 1, 2024

    In honor of Black History Month, we’re highlighting four members of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) who are making a positive impact on the lives of their patients, colleagues, students, and...

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    How Do We Close the Gap in Gender Disparities Among Hospitalists?

    December 1, 2023

    Since gender-based discrimination in education was prohibited by the passage of Title IX, women have steadily gained parity in the numbers graduating from medical school classes. The illusion of...

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    Meet SHM’s 2023 DEI Scholarship Winner: Cedric Mutebi

    November 1, 2023

    Cedric Mutebi and his mom Lucy. The Society of Hospital Medicine bestowed its second annual Hospital Medicine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion scholarship earlier this year to Cedric Mutebi, a...

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    The Value of Cultural Exchange in Health Care

    August 1, 2023

    On a Tuesday in February 2002, a happy little boy left home for school. Two hours later, he started feeling unwell, and his parents were called to pick him up. The next day, he insisted on going back...

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    Experts Say Racism a Too-common Factor in Care, and Offer Fixes

    July 5, 2023

    Saying that structural racism permeates more clinical situations than hospitalists are typically aware of, a panel of speakers at SHM Converge in March offered a framework that physicians can use to...

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    Everyone Deserves to Belong

    June 1, 2023

    This month’s magazine focuses on the challenges faced by our colleagues and patients from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more (LGBTQIA+)...

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    LGBTQIA+ Hospitalists Find Their Comfort Zones

    June 1, 2023

    Hospitalists who are part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other (LGBTQIA+) community have had an array of experiences, both in medical school and...

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    LGBTQIA+ Allyship

    June 1, 2023

    Dr. O’Toole Hospitalists are in a unique position to be allies for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other (LGBTQIA+) community because they’re on the...

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    How SHM’s DEI Committee Came to Be

    April 3, 2023

    “First, do no harm.” This is the oath we take as health care providers when we enter the medical profession. And, while previously thought of as an “add-on” to research, medical education,...

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    Better Ways to Handle LGBTQIA+ Matters

    November 1, 2022

    Let’s say—said Angela Kade Goepferd, MD (they/she), medical director of the Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program at Children’s Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis—that a 12-year-old...