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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...

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    SIG Spotlight: Physician Advisors

    February 1, 2024

    Physician advisors are responsible for a lot. Their work exists at the intersection of clinical matters and revenue. Think clinical documentation, hospital quality measures, length-of-stay...

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    SHM Chapter Leaders Look Forward in New Year

    January 2, 2024

    New years typically start with goals and preparations for things to come. We caught up with several SHM chapter leaders and asked about their chapters’ goals, what they’re looking forward to...