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QI History & Physical: A Natural Extension of the Clinician Skillset
May 1, 2026
Current approaches to quality improvement (QI) resident education have made limited progress in bridging the healthcare quality chasm, despite over two decades since medical practitioners first...
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QI for Hospitalists: Quality, Safety, Transparency
May 1, 2026
For Joel Bradley, MD, director of graduate medical education quality and safety education and an adult and pediatric hospitalist at Dartmouth Health in Hannover, N.H., quality improvement (QI) by...
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Curriculum and Educational Implications of AI
May 1, 2026
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (GenAI), represents an inflection point for medical education. AI is reshaping how trainees acquire knowledge, synthesize...
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Pandemic Experiences Impact Future Clinical Training for Med Students and Residents
April 6, 2026
Many hospitalists remember what their work was like during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially during its initial days and before a COVID-19 vaccine was available. Work habits and patient volumes...
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Getting an Advanced Degree—Why Bother?
April 6, 2026
An increasing number of doctors, including hospitalists, are pursuing advanced degrees beyond their medical degrees, driven by intellectual curiosity, the belief that such a degree is necessary for...
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What Is the “Source of Truth” for Hospitalists?
March 2, 2026
When he was a resident, Thejaswi Poonacha, MD, a hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, set out to look at the clinical practice guidelines of the National...
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Taking QI Out of Our Heads And Into Rounds
January 5, 2026
Quality initiatives (QI) are often thought of as longitudinal projects that require large system lifts and complex multidisciplinary teams. These sorts of projects can be intimidating and...
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JHM’s Things We Do For No Reason is a Hit
September 16, 2025
Leading up to the Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting in 2012, Lenny Feldman, MD, FACP, FAAP, MHM, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, was asked to...
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Simulating Success
September 3, 2025
Simulation in medical training is an evidence-based, cost-effective tool for doctors at every level to take part in patient care scenarios in a protected environment. From small group “megacode”...
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Charting a Legacy: The Origins of the SHM Leadership Academy
August 12, 2025
The Genesis of a Vision The SHM Leadership Academy may be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, but the origin story began much earlier. The narrative is not just one of organizational growth,...