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SIG Spotlight: Perioperative/Co-Management
July 31, 2025
Every SHM special interest group (SIG) is focused on the future, but not every initiative is seeing the kind of growth trend lines of the society’s Perioperative/Co-Management SIG. Dr....
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SIG Spotlight: Research
May 1, 2025
Being the newest anything can be both a blessing and a curse. For SHM’s Research Special Interest Group, which just formed in October 2024, the positives of being so new are that the group is...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital at Home
February 3, 2025
Everyone knows the concept of hospital at home care. It’s institutional-level medical treatment delivered in the confines of a Cape Cod or a two-bedroom apartment, either in person or through...
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SIG Spotlight: Palliative Care
December 2, 2024
For Elizabeth Gundersen, MD, FAAHPM, FHM, chair of SHM’s Palliative Care Special Interest Group, caring for patients at the end of their lives is a labor of love. But, in death just like life,...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Innovation and Entrepreneurship
November 1, 2024
Medical schools teach a lot of material in a short time, and residencies and fellowships help round out the training that makes hospitalists good at what they do. But nowhere in that learning curve...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospitalist Well-Being
October 1, 2024
A safe, compassionate space to address the systemic nature of the problem Well-being, at least in hospitalist circles, can’t mean a once-a-year yoga session. In the view of, Swati Mehta, MD,...
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SIG Spotlight: Multi-site Leaders
August 1, 2024
When you’ve seen one hospital-medicine group, as the saying goes, you’ve seen one hospital-medicine group. But when you’ve seen one multi-site hospital-medicine group, chances are you’ve...
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SIG Spotlight: Patient Experience
June 3, 2024
Length of stay, work-relative value units, hospital-acquired infections. There is no shortage of metrics—and their accompanying acronyms—that silo, summarize, and study whether hospitalists are...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Fellowships
May 1, 2024
Being a new kid on the block can be daunting, even in the world of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Longer-standing SIGs have board protocols, event schedules, and a history to rely on when...
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SIG Spotlight: Interhospital Transfers
March 1, 2024
SHM prides itself on connecting teams of like-minded physicians who don’t otherwise have folks they can connect with on their chosen niche within hospital medicine. But what happens when that...