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Sir William Osler: Is He the First Hospitalist?
- Mary G. Wardrop, BS, MS3, Laren D. Spaeth, DO, PGY-3, Erin Ramelb, MD, and Richard M. Wardrop III, MD, PhD, MACP, FAAP, SFHM
June 1, 2026
Sir William Osler occupies a revered place in the mythos of the history of medicine, medical education, and medical practice. Because he is celebrated as the “father of internal medicine,” his...
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Bridging the Gap: A Hospitalist-Designed, Nurse-Driven Palliative Care Model in a Community Hospital
- Natasha Rai Morris, MD, MHA, CHCQM, CRCR, CCDS, and Jessica Staton, MSN, MBA, RN, CCM
June 1, 2026
Palliative care is both a medical specialty and an art. However, the number of clinicians trained in palliative care is insufficient to meet the increasing demand for goals-of-care and advance care...
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PrEP and PEP: What Hospitalists Need to Know
June 1, 2026
Although it may not always be top of mind for hospitalists, discussing or prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can...
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Building a Hospitalist Research Career
- Alexander S. Roseman, MD, Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, MPH, Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH, Waseem Khaliq, MBBS, MPH, Lubna Jamal, MD, MBA, Boomer Olsen, DO, Amanda Ward, MD, and Shaheen Fatima, MD
June 1, 2026
Despite high levels of research interest, hospitalists often participate at lower levels due to numerous barriers, including limited mentorship, difficulty balancing clinical work and research, and...
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QI for Hospitalists: Quality, Safety, Transparency
May 1, 2026
For Joel Bradley, MD, director of graduate medical education quality and safety education and an adult and pediatric hospitalist at Dartmouth Health in Hannover, N.H., quality improvement (QI) by...
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The Value of Investing in Good Onboarding for Hospitalists
May 1, 2026
Every hospital system faces the challenges of orienting and integrating new healthcare personnel, including new hospitalists, many of whom come straight from residency or fellowship. Some bumps are...
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The Hospitalist Welcomes New Board Members 2026
April 6, 2026
The Hospitalist’s editorial board is comprised of SHM members who volunteer their time and experience in hospital medicine to ensure the magazine remains relevant to readers. During their two-year...
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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...
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...