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When the Joint Commission Comes Calling
August 3, 2026
Before he was involved in department leadership, Shivi Sharma, MBBCh, associate director of the hospitalist service at Yale New Haven Health and assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Yale...
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Bridge to Care for OUD: Three-Day Methadone Dispensed at Hospital Discharge
- Meghna N. Shah, MD, Talia R. Kahn, MD, MPH, Kyle R. Sears, MD, and Mehraneh Khalighi, MD
August 3, 2026
The number of opioid-related overdose deaths has sharply increased over the past decade, primarily due to the use of synthetic opioids. There were more than 70,000 such deaths in 2023.1 Although...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Fellowships
August 3, 2026
Adult hospital medicine fellowships are neither required nor easy to define, making it difficult to communicate their existence and benefits to potential candidates. To help navigate the world of...
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Chapter Spotlight: Greater Philadelphia Area
August 3, 2026
SHM’s Greater Philadelphia area chapter leaders meeting in February 2026, L to R: Suchit Bhutani, MD, Caroline Bera, DO, Sara Van Calcar, MD, Kai Xu, MD, Swapna Gummadi, MD, Romeo Sporici, MD,...
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Demystifying Performance Measures for Hospitalists: Attribution Challenges
- Alex Roseman, MD, FACP, FAAP, DABOM, Harris Carmichael, MD, MHS, FACP, FHM, Amitasha Sinha, MD, and Sonali Iyer, MD
August 3, 2026
A hospital leader assigns the hospital medicine division chief to reduce the division’s length of stay (LOS). The division chief chooses LOS as a measure and focuses on individuals’ LOS by...
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The Hospitalist Wins 13th APEX Award
July 6, 2026
The Society of Hospital Medicine and Wiley are happy to announce that The Hospitalist has received an APEX Award of Excellence for its June 2025 issue. The issue was one of 10 magazines honored with...
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Feedback Without the Fallout: Building Effective Conversations
- Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, MPH;
- Meredith Trubitt, MD;
- Monee Amin, MD
July 1, 2026
Feedback is a cornerstone of medical education and professional growth, playing a critical role in shaping competent, confident physicians. Yet despite its importance, feedback often falls short....
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When the Skin Speaks First: Inpatient Dermatology Pearls from Converge 2026
- Christopher Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM
July 1, 2026
In a city where cover bands are judged on whether they can sell the song in the first eight bars, Steven Chen, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd, opened his Converge 2026 session on inpatient dermatology with an...
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Nashville Hot: Spicing Up Teaching on the Fly
- Amanda Magee, DO, FACP, SFHM;
- Ana Kavtaradze, MD;
- Naveed Choudry, MD, FACP, FHM
July 1, 2026
Picture your team walking out of a patient’s room. You head down the hallway toward the elevator, the doors open, and for a moment, everyone just stands there. No one says anything. That pause,...
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Being a Great Unit-Based Medical Director
- Justin Miller, MD, FACP, SFHM
July 1, 2026
This talk focused on the role of the unit-based medical director and the skills needed to be effective in this position. Although there are some similarities to other leadership positions, such as...