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Chapter Spotlight: Pee Dee
June 3, 2024
COVID-19 was brutal on SHM chapters nationwide, immediately forcing events to teleconference technology and eliminating the in-person networking and education that has become a staple of the...
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SIG Spotlight: Patient Experience
June 3, 2024
Length of stay, work-relative value units, hospital-acquired infections. There is no shortage of metrics—and their accompanying acronyms—that silo, summarize, and study whether hospitalists are...
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Dr. Shi Revels in the Diversity of Experiences and Opportunities in HM
May 3, 2024
Q & A with Lucy Shi, MD, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, Calif. Dr. Shi felt she had too many interests and not much direction when she first started as a hospitalist. Reflecting, growing,...
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Hospitalists as Disruptors in Healthcare
May 1, 2024
Dr. Kisuule We are living in disruptive times. We are amidst national and global conflict, we survived a pandemic that changed many aspects of our lives permanently, and many of our health...
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New ACGME Peds Program Requirements Present Challenges and Opportunities
May 1, 2024
Although updates to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) program requirements for pediatric graduate medical education will present financial challenges to some hospitals...
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Chapter Spotlight: Kansas
May 1, 2024
All SHM chapters talk about getting early-career hospitalists more involved. The Kansas chapter puts its money where its mouth is. Dr. Rafiq Its president, Ali Rafiq, MD, FACP, first got...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Fellowships
May 1, 2024
Being a new kid on the block can be daunting, even in the world of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Longer-standing SIGs have board protocols, event schedules, and a history to rely on when...
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Getting Another Degree While Working… Or Not?
March 12, 2024
The monthly(-ish) #JHMChat on X, formerly Twitter, is a time to discuss interesting articles in the Journal of Hospital Medicine , meet new people, and learn from each other. Our chat this past...
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Integrating NPs and PAs into Your Hospital Medicine Program
March 1, 2024
The field of hospital medicine is continuously evolving to meet the demands of rising patient numbers and complexity. As a result, nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants or physician...
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SIG Spotlight: Interhospital Transfers
March 1, 2024
SHM prides itself on connecting teams of like-minded physicians who don’t otherwise have folks they can connect with on their chosen niche within hospital medicine. But what happens when that...