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SIG Spotlight: Oncology Hospitalists
September 3, 2024
A lot of hospital medicine goes back to the mid-1990s when the term was first coined and the budding specialty’s first bricks were laid. Dr. Hodde Dealing with cancer as an inpatient expert...
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Chapter Spotlight: Sacramento
September 3, 2024
Most chapters for SHM begin with a gaggle of hospitalists meeting up and becoming friends, bound by shared work experience. Things work differently in the Sacramento chapter, founded as a...
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SHM’s Hospital Medicine DEI Scholarship Winner: Ricardo Crespo Regalado
August 1, 2024
L to R: Dr. Kris Rehm, Ricardo Crespo Regalado, Langston Faulk of Vituity, and Dr. Eric Howell In support of its commitment to enhancing diversity in the hospitalist workforce and eliminating...
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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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Chapter Spotlight: New Hampshire and Vermont
August 1, 2024
Perhaps the best description of SHM’s combined New Hampshire and Vermont chapter is camaraderie and curriculum, with a dash of snow. Dr. Krawitt “We’re creating…a kind of neighborhood...
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Connecting, Learning, Engaging at Converge and Throughout the Year
July 1, 2024
Converge may only last a few days, but SHM’s CEO, Dr. Eric Howell, explains how members can stay involved all year. It’s hard to believe that it has been three months since we connected in...
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Update in Hospital Medicine
July 1, 2024
Dr. Zahir Kanjee (left) and Dr. Suchita Shah Sata educated—and entertained!—with their updates in hospital medicine. This year’s annual Update in Hospital Medicine transported learners to...
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Challenging Anticoagulation Scenarios: How to Have Smooth Sailing through Choppy Waters
July 1, 2024
Keeping abreast of updates in anticoagulation guidelines is important for physicians to provide optimal patient care. Multiple changes to recommendations for anticoagulation have been made in the...
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Kill the Mortality—Building Successful Inpatient Mortality Reduction Programs in Academic and Rural Health Systems
July 1, 2024
The session began with a clear statement of its objectives, focusing on how quality programs view mortality, the methodology behind it, approaches to reducing mortality, and the impact hospitalists...
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Opioid Use Disorders in Adolescents
July 1, 2024
Dr. Trope, a pediatric hospitalist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., and an affiliated clinical instructor at the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University...