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Welcome to the Jungle: Navigating Your New Leadership Role with Confidence While Stepping into the Unknown
July 1, 2025
Starting strong in a new leadership role is essential for success. While hospitalists are often well-prepared for leadership positions, they typically lack training in managing effective transitions....
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Winning Big in MedEd: Best Practices for Optimizing Bedside Rounds for Patients and Learners
July 1, 2025
Annie Massart, MD, SFHM, a hospitalist and assistant professor in the division of hospital medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, is a well-known clinician educator and is revered for her...
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The Great Debate 2025—Controversies in Perioperative Medicine
- Chris Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM
July 1, 2025
Under the bright, early‑morning glow of a Vegas ballroom—think less blackjack table, more brightly lit lecture hall—two perioperative medicine rivals took the stage for SHM’s “Great...
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Finding My Path in Inpatient Medicine: A Family Medicine Resident’s Reflection
June 25, 2025
My name is Mehran, and I’m currently transitioning into my second year as a family medicine resident at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I chose this specialty with a deep passion for...
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Addiction Consultation and Medications for Substance Use Disorders Associated with Reduced 30-Day Readmission Rates
June 2, 2025
Clinical question: In patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD), do addiction consultations or medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and alcohol use disorder (MAUD)...
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The National Hospital Medicine Writing Challenge
- Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH;
- Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, MPH
June 2, 2025
It is highly unlikely that any hospitalist, academic or otherwise, has ever complained that they have too much time for writing or that writing is too easy. Even professional writers often struggle...
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Don’t Throw Away Your Shot: Negotiations
- Alyssa M. Stephany, MD, MS, FAAP, PCC (ICF), SFHM;
- Carrie Herzke, MD, MBA, SFHM;
- Joanna Bonsall, MD, PhD, FACP, SFH
June 2, 2025
Many of us did not go into medicine to negotiate, and so feel uncomfortable with negotiations. However, we negotiate more often in our day-to-day lives than we realize (those with children definitely...
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The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching Residents
June 2, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic, advances in technology, and new views about work-life balance have all impacted how medical residents learn in recent years. Dr. Barna “Although the evolution of...
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From Mistakes to Growth: How to Manage Medical Errors
- Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD, SFHM;
- Melissa Plesac, MD;
- Paula Skarda, MD;
- Pooja Parekh, MD
June 2, 2025
Many entering the medical profession are perfectionists, unaccustomed to making serious mistakes.1 Medical errors, however, are inevitable and multifactorial.2 We fear errors due to the cost to our...
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Non-Medical Consequences: The 6th Element of Informed Consent
- Lisa Simmon, MD, MBA, CHCQM, SFHM
May 1, 2025
Informed consent is critical to the daily practice of medicine. Conversations about the risks and benefits of treatment options are both a legal requirement and an ethical duty. However, another...