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A Time of Self Reflection
November 17, 2022
A Q & A with SHM member, Karla Pambogo, RN, MBA It’s an exciting time to be part of hospital medicine as there are so many opportunities to get involved. Ms. Pambogo What’s your...
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Underrepresentation of Dermatologic Conditions in POC
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Dermatologic Disease Presentations, Skin Color, and Disparities in Medical Care Presenters: Deawodi Ladzekpo, MD, and Sonya Tang Girdwood, MD, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital,...
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Juggling Medical School, DEI, and Volunteering are All in a Day’s Work for This Med Student
September 1, 2022
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are three words that, rightfully, get bandied around more and more frequently. The Society of Hospital Medicine does more than bandy the words around. In support of...
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Becoming an Ally for Gender Equity in Medicine
July 1, 2022
Presenters: Jennifer O’Toole, MD, MEd, SFHM, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati While there have been strides in gender equity in the practice of medicine, there’s still a long way...
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Human Behavior: Implications for Hospital Medicine
July 1, 2022
Presenter: Brad Sharpe, MD, FACP, SFHM, University of California, San Francisco Many aspects of human behavior are influenced by judgments and assessments that occur within fractions of a second....
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Remedies for the Unavoidable Implicit Bias
July 1, 2022
Dr. Capers The billboard loomed above the road in Savannah, Ga., with three huge faces in medical masks peering out. “All Cardiothoracic Surgeons Look Like This,” it read. All the faces...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2021
July 1, 2022
Presenters and Summary authors: Matthew Shapiro, MD, MS, FAAP, Shuvani Sanyal, MD Dr. Sanyal Dr. Shapiro As pediatric hospitalists, our organ is the hospital. We care for a wide variety of...
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SHM News
June 1, 2022
Andrea Martinez Receives SHM’s Inaugural DEI Scholarship Andrea Martinez, a third-year medical student at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, received SHM’s inaugural Hospital...
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LGBTQIA+ Patient Care
June 1, 2022
Where are we and where are we going? The LGBTQIA+ community has doubled since it was first measured in 2012, according to a 2022 Gallup poll—it now includes 7.1% of Americans.1 As the community...
Self-identified black patients experience higher rates of occult hypoxemia
May 2, 2022
Dr. Long Clinical question: Are there disparities in hypoxemia detection by pulse oximetry across self-identified racial groups and, if so, is there an association with clinical...
