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Hospitalists as Triple Threat Leaders: Clinical Excellence, Education, and Systems Innovation
August 3, 2026
Over the past three decades, hospital medicine has evolved from a pragmatic response to system inefficiencies into one of the most influential and foundational domains in healthcare delivery. First...
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Celebrating 30 Years of Hospital Medicine With 11 Hospitalists
August 3, 2026
Hospitalists who entered the field of hospital medicine two or three decades ago may not have anticipated how their careers and the specialty would evolve over time. They have witnessed the...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Fellowships
August 3, 2026
Adult hospital medicine fellowships are neither required nor easy to define, making it difficult to communicate their existence and benefits to potential candidates. To help navigate the world of...
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Chapter Spotlight: Greater Philadelphia Area
August 3, 2026
SHM’s Greater Philadelphia area chapter leaders meeting in February 2026, L to R: Suchit Bhutani, MD, Caroline Bera, DO, Sara Van Calcar, MD, Kai Xu, MD, Swapna Gummadi, MD, Romeo Sporici, MD,...
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Being a Great Unit-Based Medical Director
July 1, 2026
This talk focused on the role of the unit-based medical director and the skills needed to be effective in this position. Although there are some similarities to other leadership positions, such as...
From Solo Acts to Supergroups: Building a Strong APP Team in Hospital Medicine
July 1, 2026
In Nashville, in a room full of hospitalists who spend their days thinking about flow, safety, and scale, this session landed in a familiar but underexamined space. The focus was practical and...
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And the Band Plays On: Tips on Continuing to Improve Your Knowledge and Clinical Reasoning
July 1, 2026
There is always a session at Converge that stays with you. Not because it was the most data-heavy or the most clinically urgent, but because it held up a mirror and you weren’t entirely sure you...
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Business Updates for the Hospitalist: The Top Business Articles of 2025 that Will Change the Way You Lead, Do Your Job, and Practice Medicine
July 1, 2026
This highly engaging talk by Christopher Russo, MD, reviewed high-impact articles from outside the medical literature and examined how knowledge from fields outside medicine can change the way...
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A Response to Getting an Advanced Degree—Why Bother?
June 1, 2026
We read with interest “Getting an Advanced Degree—Why Bother?” in the April issue of The Hospitalist. We appreciate the discussion given LS’s background in hospital medicine and now 31+ years...
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Building a Hospitalist Research Career
June 1, 2026
Despite high levels of research interest, hospitalists often participate at lower levels due to numerous barriers, including limited mentorship, difficulty balancing clinical work and research, and...