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Contract Negotiation Know-How
December 1, 2022
Whether you’re a hospitalist negotiating your first job contract out of residency or a seasoned professional considering a new opportunity after years with the same institution, negotiating...
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Hospital Closures Pose Challenges to Care
November 1, 2022
Empty beds in a hospital room. When 10-bed Nye Regional Medical Center, in west-central Nevada, closed abruptly in 2015, it meant that the residents of the former gold-mining town of Tonopah...
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7 Types of Jargon Overuse
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Say What? Diagnosing and Treating the 7 types of Jargon Overuse Presenters: Mike Pitt, MD, and Jordan Marmet, MD, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis,...
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Debunking Medical Education Dogmas
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Medical Education Dogmas: Things Educators Do for No Reason Presenters: Eric Zwemer, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill, N.C., Jimmy Beck, MD, MEd, Seattle Children’s...
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Refuting Long-held Pediatric Clinical Tenets
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Um, Dr. Dancel, We Don’t Do That Anymore Presenters: Jennifer Fuchs, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill, N.C., Steve Weinberg, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill,...
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Peer-to-peer Reviews of Observation Status
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Let’s Talk Peer-to-Peer. Inpatient and Observation Status—What Really Matters? Presenters: Lucinda Lo, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pa., Amy Sanderson MD, FAAP, Boston...
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Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis and as Hospitalists, It’s Time to Step Up
July 12, 2022
I did not think that becoming a pediatric hospitalist would require me to become an expert in firearm injury, but here I am. Every day more than 300 people are shot in the United States.1,2 That fact...
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How Hospitals Analyze and Learn from Adverse Events
July 1, 2022
Presenter: Daniel Steinberg, MD, FACP, SFHM, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York In this session, the speaker walked through the steps institutions practicing...
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Breaking Into Medical Education: Opportunities, Challenges, & Strategies
July 1, 2022
Dr. Mehta Presenters: Shannon K. Martin, MD, MS, SFHM, University of Chicago, Chicago, Daniel N. Ricotta, MD, SFHM, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass., and Marion Stanley, MD, Northwestern...
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Becoming an Ally for Gender Equity in Medicine
July 1, 2022
Presenters: Jennifer O’Toole, MD, MEd, SFHM, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati While there have been strides in gender equity in the practice of medicine, there’s still a long way...