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Drinking from the fire hose of emerging medical literature
April 1, 2022
We’ve all said to ourselves hundreds of times, “I need to stay more up to date on the medical literature.” For hospitalists with ever-increasing patient care and administrative...
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Chapter spotlight: Rhode Island
April 1, 2022
For years, there’d been talk of starting a Rhode Island chapter of SHM. Sure, hospitalists in the smallest state in the country could have hopped state lines to join a chapter in Boston or...
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A commitment to training physicians and SHM: a perfect match
April 1, 2022
When Daniel Ricotta, MD, SFHM, matriculated to residency in 2011, he didn’t know what hospital medicine was. Now, as chair of SHM’s Physicians in Training committee, it’s his mission to make...
Movers and Shakers
March 18, 2022
Farzana Hoque, MD, MRCP, FACP was recently recognized with the Caring Physician, Attending Physician of the Quarter, and the Excellence in Professionalism awards by SSM Health Saint Louis...
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Movers and Shakers
March 1, 2022
Dr. Choi Chang B. Choi, MD, FHM has been named to the board of directors at CalvertHealth, Prince Frederick, Md. Dr. Choi leads the adult-hospitalist team at CalvertHealth Medical Center. Since...
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Chapter spotlight: New Mexico
March 1, 2022
Back in 2014, when Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, MACP, SFHM, was the leader of the New Mexico Chapter of the American College of Physicians, she was asked to help support the launch of the state’s first...
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#HowWeHospitalist: A glimpse into six lives
February 16, 2022
They’ve been called heroes and godsends and walked out of work to applause from passersby. That respect and admiration was a balm to overworked hospitalists. Now many of the nation’s estimated...
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Chapter Spotlight: Atlanta
February 3, 2022
Hospitalist John Vazquez, MD, calls it cross-pollination. Dr. Vazquez As the immediate past president of the SHM chapter in Atlanta, he’s referring to the value of networking and the role...
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SIG Spotlight: Perioperative/Co-management
February 3, 2022
Hospitalists don’t focus much on the ins and outs of perioperative care in medical school and residency, but rising surgical volumes in recent years, combined with the ever-growing recognition that...
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Insights into HM and PHM fellowship programs
February 3, 2022
A hospital medicine fellowship combines the best of hospital medicine with the opportunity for physicians to specialize early in their careers. According to directors of successful programs at the...