To Treat or Not to Treat? Mycoplasma and Its Controversies
November 5, 2025
PHM 2025 Session Recap In a unique session at PHM 2025, an intensivist, a hospitalist, and two infectious disease specialists provided an update on Mycoplasma pneumoniae from the lens of their...
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Lessons from the Courtroom: PHM Malpractice Cases
November 5, 2025
PHM 2025 Session Recap One of the most terrifying and potentially career-altering experiences in medicine is being named in a malpractice lawsuit. Although many deep-seated emotions exist in this...
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Learning to Lead: Optimizing Trainee Autonomy After ACGME Updates
November 5, 2025
PHM 2025 Session Recap Improving resident autonomy on inpatient wards remains a hot topic across the country. In particular, the recent Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)...
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Umm, Dr. Dancel, We Don’t Do That Anymore… Part 4
November 5, 2025
PHM 2025 Session Recap Presenters (Jen Fuchs, MD, Emilee Lewis, MD, Steve Weinberg, MD, Kevin Weinberger, DO, and Eric Zwemer, MD, MEHP) from this year’s “Umm Dr. Dancel…” escorted us...
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Finding the Magic: Reflections from PHM 2025
November 3, 2025
This year, the Pediatric Hospital Medicine conference opened with a simple challenge: “Find the magic.” After four days in Anaheim, Calif., watching more than 1,100 pediatric hospitalists share...
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Top 10 Articles in Pediatric Hospital Medicine Literature, 2025
November 3, 2025
Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) is a field rich with ambition and new advancements, and it is an annual tradition that the top 10 publications within the PHM literature are presented at the PHM...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2024
July 1, 2025
In 2024, we witnessed changes both within the U.S. and abroad, ranging from vaccine hesitancy, uncertainty about the future of governmental health organizations, rapidly advancing medical technology,...
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Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Big and Small
July 1, 2025
At SHM Converge 2025, Shelia Swartz, MD, MPH, associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, shared practical insights into the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to...
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Things We Do for No Reason in Pediatrics
July 1, 2025
As part of the pediatric track at SHM Converge 2025, Elise Lu, MD, PhD, FAAP, a pediatric hospitalist in the clinical teaching unit at Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at the University...
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Less Bloat, More Clarity: Optimizing Inpatient Notes
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap The objectives of this session were to define note bloat, identify unnecessary contributors to clinical note length, describe methods to decrease extraneous data and improve...