Article
Top Articles in Pediatrics SHM Converge 2026
July 1, 2026
Pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) continues to evolve as a specialty, fueled by growing recognition of the distinct needs of hospitalized children and an expanding focus on quality, safety, and...
Article
Optimizing Transitions of Care: Lessons from a Hospital Medicine Transitions Clinic
July 1, 2026
Nashville has always understood that the magic happens in the handoff, the moment one musician passes the melody to the next without missing a beat. In hospital medicine, that handoff is at...
Article
Updates in Clinical Guidelines
July 1, 2026
Presented by Alfred Burger, MD, and Michael Roberts, MD, “Updates in Clinical Guidelines” provided a comprehensive review of clinical guideline updates spanning January 2024 through January 2026....
Article
And the Band Plays On: Tips on Continuing to Improve Your Knowledge and Clinical Reasoning
July 1, 2026
There is always a session at Converge that stays with you. Not because it was the most data-heavy or the most clinically urgent, but because it held up a mirror and you weren’t entirely sure you...
Article
Advances in Pharmacotherapy: New Drugs Hospitalists Should Know
July 1, 2026
This session was presented by Niti Patel, MD, PharmD, assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and Thomas Chen, MD, PharmD, assistant professor of...
Article
How to Lead a Debrief After a Patient Death or Adverse Event
July 1, 2026
Every patient’s death carries a weight that physicians learn to carry quietly, sometimes for years. Experience does not erase it. Even seasoned clinicians find themselves returning to the same...
Article
Updated Guidelines on Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment
July 1, 2026
Hospitalists often encounter an increasing number of patients with cardiac disease and complex illnesses who need noncardiac surgery. Approximately one in 33 patients over the age of 45 experiences...
Article
“Bless Your Heart”—Update in Heart Failure
July 1, 2026
The session “Bless Your Heart—Update in Heart Failure” provided a high-yield, evidence-based review of recent trials and evolving strategies in the management of heart failure (HF), with a...
Article
Acute Brain Dysfunction: A Roadmap to the Prevention and Treatment of Coma, Delirium, and Agitation in the Critically Ill Patient
July 1, 2026
Acute brain dysfunction—encompassing delirium, coma, and agitation—is one of the most common and consequential complications of critical illness, yet it remains under-recognized and...
Article
Hot Takes: Addiction Medicine Made Easy for the Busy Hospitalist
July 1, 2026
As opioid-related hospitalizations and overdose deaths continue to surge in the U.S., the role of hospitalists in initiating treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) has never been more urgent. Many...