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    How Do We Close the Gap in Gender Disparities Among Hospitalists?

    December 1, 2023

    Since gender-based discrimination in education was prohibited by the passage of Title IX, women have steadily gained parity in the numbers graduating from medical school classes. The illusion of...

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    SHM SIG Leaders Reflect on 2023

    December 1, 2023

    As the year comes to a close, we asked leaders of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs) what their groups accomplished this year, what was the best thing that happened to them professionally and/or...

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    Hospitalists Explore Evolving Roles in Telemedicine

    December 1, 2023

    When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, health care providers had to learn in a hurry how to navigate telemedicine and virtual, distant encounters with patients—using technologies that...

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    SIG Spotlight: Night Medicine

    December 1, 2023

    When hospitalist Neil Desai, MD, started as a night doctor, he would get the same question for years. It came from colleagues and family members alike—and no one meant anything by it. They just...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Iowa

    December 1, 2023

    Every SHM chapter likes to focus on the so-called big-tent philosophy, the idea that a group’s success is enhanced by having members who aren’t just hospitalists, but who are in the hospital...

  • Movers and Shakers November 2023

    November 16, 2023

    Dr. Davidyock John Davidyock, MD, FACP, SFHM, has been named senior vice president and chief physician executive at UF Health Central Florida, Leesburg, Fla. Most recently he served as vice...

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    Psychological Safety a Must for HM Education

    November 14, 2023

    When the space shuttle Challenger exploded in the sky in 1986, a group of engineers’ fears had come true: They had known a critical failure was possible at the low temperatures that were seen...

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    Experts Offer Tips to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in Hospital Medicine

    November 14, 2023

    When it comes to job satisfaction, many hospitalists might find themselves in a kind of in-between posture: Their jobs are, well, mostly fine. Dr. Pierce But Read Pierce, MD, chief of hospital...

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    Research is Possible—and Vital—as a Hospitalist

    November 14, 2023

    When you’re in the middle of yet another impossibly busy week, making time for research in hospital medicine might seem next to impossible. But it is possible—and enormously important for the...

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    In Service to Their Patients and Their Country

    November 1, 2023

    Caring. Effective. Dutiful. Supportive. Serving. Protective. Leading. Responsible. These words easily describe a hospitalist or a soldier—and sometimes both. In honor of Veteran’s Day, we...