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7 Types of Jargon Overuse
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Say What? Diagnosing and Treating the 7 types of Jargon Overuse Presenters: Mike Pitt, MD, and Jordan Marmet, MD, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis,...
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Debunking Medical Education Dogmas
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Medical Education Dogmas: Things Educators Do for No Reason Presenters: Eric Zwemer, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill, N.C., Jimmy Beck, MD, MEd, Seattle Children’s...
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STI Guideline Updates for Pediatric Hospitalists
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: 2021 Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Guideline Updates: What the Pediatric Hospitalist Needs to Know Presenters: Jason Zucker, MD, Columbia University, New York, and Candice...
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Refuting Long-held Pediatric Clinical Tenets
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Um, Dr. Dancel, We Don’t Do That Anymore Presenters: Jennifer Fuchs, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill, N.C., Steve Weinberg, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill,...
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Peer-to-peer Reviews of Observation Status
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Let’s Talk Peer-to-Peer. Inpatient and Observation Status—What Really Matters? Presenters: Lucinda Lo, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pa., Amy Sanderson MD, FAAP, Boston...
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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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Books for the Hospitalist’s Soul
September 1, 2022
Early-career hospitalists must learn to navigate multiple roles—clinician, educator, coach, leader, and colleague, to name a few. Complementary to mentorship and experiential learning, select...
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Unintended Consequences of the PHM Board Certification Process
August 1, 2022
Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) was designated a subspecialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties in 2016, with certification through the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). While this...
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History and Importance of Procedural Medicine
August 1, 2022
Dr. Ault, considered a pioneer in procedural medicine, often used chickens as teaching tools in his courses. Over the past 30 years, the number of procedures performed by internists has steadily...
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Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis and as Hospitalists, It’s Time to Step Up
July 12, 2022
I did not think that becoming a pediatric hospitalist would require me to become an expert in firearm injury, but here I am. Every day more than 300 people are shot in the United States.1,2 That fact...