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Celebrating National Hospitalist Day: Four Paths, One Purpose
March 2, 2026
National Hospitalist Day celebrates hospitalists’ contributions to health care on the first Thursday of March. Founded by SHM in 2018, the day will be commemorated on March 5 this year. In honor...
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Rounding and Admitting Teams—Separate or Together?
- Chris Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM;
- Elizabeth Herrle, MD, FACP, SFHM
March 2, 2026
Clean, Clear, and Consistent For years, I was strongly against splitting our hospital medicine team structure into admitting and rounding teams. In looking at the competing values associated with...
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SHM Converge 2026 Session Recommendations
February 25, 2026
SHM Converge 2026 in Nashville is packed with 20 educational tracks and more than 100 sessions. Members of The Hospitalist’s editorial board share a few of the sessions they’re excited to...
Navigating PTO for Hospitalists
- Sarah Shihadeh, MD;
- TaRessa Wills, MD;
- Teresa Caponiti;
- Venkat P. Gundareddy, MBBS, MPH, FACP, SFHM
February 25, 2026
SHM has heard anecdotes from hospitalists that, post-COVID-19 pandemic, the culture around paid time off (PTO) has been shifting—both in prevalence and in use. Some groups are exploring PTO...
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The Power of Coaching
- Chris Sankey, MD, FACP, SFHM
February 2, 2026
I am a mid-career academic hospitalist deeply interested in physician wellness and burnout. At SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas, I attended the wellness plenary by Dr. Sandeep Jauhar titled “Our...
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Complexity in Compensation in Academic Medicine
February 2, 2026
Physicians in academic hospital medicine are usually motivated not just by their interest in clinical care, but by a love of intellectual progress, academic citizenship, mentorship, and teaching....
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Hospitalist-Led AI Research
- Adam Rodman, MD, MPH;
- Andrew S. Parsons, MD, MPH;
- R. Logan Jones, MD
February 2, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering hospital medicine at a moment when the field needs it most and when the risks of getting it wrong are high. For many hospitalists, interest in AI has grown...
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AI and the Hospitalist: Between Promise and Prudence
February 2, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly moved from novelty to near inevitability in hospital medicine. While tools like ChatGPT captured public attention in 2022, AI had already been shaping...
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Social Prescriptions for Hospitalists in Tough Times
January 5, 2026
We knew hospital medicine was challenging when we signed up for the job: the most vulnerable members of our communities facing acute health crises; competing economic interests; continuous time...
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ED Boarding Practices: The Good, the Bad, and the Bright Spots
January 5, 2026
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) has become commonplace at many hospitals, which can cause bottlenecks and negatively affect patients. Fortunately, hospitalists have found some...