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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2024
July 1, 2025
In 2024, we witnessed changes both within the U.S. and abroad, ranging from vaccine hesitancy, uncertainty about the future of governmental health organizations, rapidly advancing medical technology,...
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Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Big and Small
July 1, 2025
At SHM Converge 2025, Shelia Swartz, MD, MPH, associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, shared practical insights into the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to...
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Things We Do for No Reason in Pediatrics
July 1, 2025
As part of the pediatric track at SHM Converge 2025, Elise Lu, MD, PhD, FAAP, a pediatric hospitalist in the clinical teaching unit at Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at the University...
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Less Bloat, More Clarity: Optimizing Inpatient Notes
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap The objectives of this session were to define note bloat, identify unnecessary contributors to clinical note length, describe methods to decrease extraneous data and improve...
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Change is Hard: 5 Practical Tips to Leading Change from Rounds to the Board Room
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap This session, presented by Brittany Hunter, MD, and Cynthia Castiglioni, MD, MS, was a high-yield quick hit that gave practical solutions on how to implement meaningful change...
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Growing Pains: How to Successfully Navigate Inpatient Pediatric-to-Adult Care Transition
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap In this interactive workshop, the presenters, Ruchi Doshi, MD, Colby Feeney, MD, Kelly Grannan, MD, Christy Mulligan, MD, Rachel Peterson, MD, and Jesse Rhodes, MD, (who were...
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“Is There a Doctor in the House?” Responding to Medical Emergencies Outside of the Hospital
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Sesson Recap For hospitalists who are accustomed to caring for sick patients, encountering emergencies outside of the hospital is far beyond our comfort zones. To quell anxieties and...
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Anchors Away! Operationalizing the Diagnostic Timeout to Overcome Cognitive Bias
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap This session began with a discussion of a patient presentation pediatric hospitalists are very familiar with—a toddler with vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain most...
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PHM 2024: Health Equity, Advocacy, AI, and an Astronaut
November 1, 2024
The 2024 Annual Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference’s theme was “How We PHM,” uniting more than 1,200 pediatric hospitalists who attended the conference in Minneapolis in August. According...
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Lessons from an Astronaut
November 1, 2024
Recap of PHM plenary session presented by Lieutenant Colonel Jasmin Moghbeli On May 25, 2017, a call came up on Jasmin Moghbeli’s phone from a Houston, Texas number which would change the course...