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SIG Spotlight: Health IT
January 2, 2024
The world of 2024 isn’t your grandfather’s health information technology (IT). Heck, it’s not even the world that existed when the first iPhone debuted in 2007. The breakneck pace of health IT...
Chapter Spotlight: Hampton Roads
January 2, 2024
The Hampton Roads chapter of SHM in southeastern Virginia was long run by Dr. Thom Miller, so a few years ago when he recruited Gwendolyn Williams, (@GwentheDoctor), MD, FHM, as his successor, she...
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Med-Peds Hospital Medicine: A Valuable Resource at Risk?
January 2, 2024
Hospital Medicine has been a growing career choice among combined internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds) physicians with an increasing number of resident graduates entering the field in recent...
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Is ChatGPT a Better Doctor Than You?
December 1, 2023
Dr. Chang That question may be on the minds of many physicians today. We’ve seen that ChatGPT can pass the U.S. medical licensing exams. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly improving the...
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ChatGPT and AI: How Does Health Care Handle 1.0?
December 1, 2023
Health care, including hospital medicine, isn’t exactly known as the professional land of early adopters—and for good reason. The regulations that govern the care of hospitalized patients...
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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...