Article
Nashville Hot: Spicing Up Teaching on the Fly
July 1, 2026
Picture your team walking out of a patient’s room. You head down the hallway toward the elevator, the doors open, and for a moment, everyone just stands there. No one says anything. That pause,...
Article
Being a Great Unit-Based Medical Director
July 1, 2026
This talk focused on the role of the unit-based medical director and the skills needed to be effective in this position. Although there are some similarities to other leadership positions, such as...
Article
A Giant Leap: Lessons from the Early Days of Generative AI Meets Healthcare
July 1, 2026
Robert Wachter, MD, returned to the SHM Converge mainstage and took attendees on a tour of his perspective on artificial intelligence (AI). Drawing from the more than 100 interviews he conducted as...
From Solo Acts to Supergroups: Building a Strong APP Team in Hospital Medicine
July 1, 2026
In Nashville, in a room full of hospitalists who spend their days thinking about flow, safety, and scale, this session landed in a familiar but underexamined space. The focus was practical and...
Article
The Latest and Greatest Strategies for Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal and Alcohol Use Disorder
July 1, 2026
“The Latest and Greatest Strategies for Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal and Alcohol Use Disorder” provided a practical, evidence-informed update highly relevant to hospitalists managing patients...
Management of Inpatient Nausea: Pathways, Pharmacology, and Practice
July 1, 2026
In this engaging session, Annie Massart, MD, associate professor in the division of hospital medicine and associate vice chair of faculty development in the department of medicine at Emory University...
Article
State of Hospital Medicine: Five Things to Watch
July 1, 2026
Dr. Howell As SHM CEO, I am constantly working to stay abreast of key factors that impact the hospital medicine specialty to ensure we, as your professional society, are equipped to help you...
Article
Life-Threatening Inpatient Endocrine Emergencies
July 1, 2026
While Nashville’s honky-tonks and hot chicken stressed our endocrine systems, one talk at SHM Converge gave us the tools to master the metabolic chaos of true endocrine emergencies we may face in...
Article
Updates in Hospital Medicine 2026
July 1, 2026
Nashville welcomed SHM Converge 2026, and with it one of the conference’s most anticipated annual traditions: the Updates in Hospital Medicine session. Kencee Graves, MD, FHM, clinical professor of...
Article
Update in Perioperative Medicine: What the Past Year Taught Us
July 1, 2026
Every year, the perioperative medicine update at Converge gives hospitalists a reason to recalibrate, and the Nashville session (anchored, fittingly, around an 84-year-old woman with the kind of...