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Budgeting Tips: Keeping Division Finances on Track
January 2, 2024
Dr. Brotman For a hospitalist, managing a budget shouldn’t be that much different than maintaining a household budget. “Ideally, you should know approximately how much income you’ll...
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To Niche or Not to Niche-Should You Subspecialize?
- Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD, MPH, SFHM;
- Laura Paletta-Hobbs, MD;
- Melissa Plesac, MD;
- Paula Skarda, MD
January 2, 2024
Hospital medicine has experienced significant growth since its inception as a career within general internal medicine. Over the past 20 years, this expansion has created numerous opportunities for...
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Med-Peds Hospital Medicine: A Valuable Resource at Risk?
- Alan M. Hall, MD, FAAP, SFHM;
- Alyssa M. Stephany, MD, MS, FAAP, PCC (ICF), SFHM;
- David Fish, MD, SFHM;
- Madeleine Matthiesen, MD;
- Rachel Peterson, MD, FHM
January 2, 2024
Hospital Medicine has been a growing career choice among combined internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds) physicians with an increasing number of resident graduates entering the field in recent...
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SHM’s 2023 Hill Day: Continuing the Conversation with Legislators
December 7, 2023
U.S. Capitol, SHM Hill Day 2023 Each year SHM members and staff converge in Washington, D.C., to meet with legislators and discuss key concerns and policy issues that affect hospitalists, their...
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Gaps Remain in Hospital Discharge Education
December 1, 2023
Clinical question: What are medicine floor patients told about their hospital discharge instructions and by whom? Dr. Mutter Background studies: Prior studies have demonstrated suboptimal...
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SHM SIG Leaders Reflect on 2023
December 1, 2023
As the year comes to a close, we asked leaders of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs) what their groups accomplished this year, what was the best thing that happened to them professionally and/or...
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SIG Spotlight: Night Medicine
December 1, 2023
When hospitalist Neil Desai, MD, started as a night doctor, he would get the same question for years. It came from colleagues and family members alike—and no one meant anything by it. They just...
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Chapter Spotlight: Iowa
December 1, 2023
Every SHM chapter likes to focus on the so-called big-tent philosophy, the idea that a group’s success is enhanced by having members who aren’t just hospitalists, but who are in the hospital...
Movers and Shakers November 2023
November 16, 2023
Dr. Davidyock John Davidyock, MD, FACP, SFHM, has been named senior vice president and chief physician executive at UF Health Central Florida, Leesburg, Fla. Most recently he served as vice...
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Psychological Safety a Must for HM Education
November 14, 2023
When the space shuttle Challenger exploded in the sky in 1986, a group of engineers’ fears had come true: They had known a critical failure was possible at the low temperatures that were seen...