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Incorporating Learners on Direct Care Services: Reclaiming the “Non-Teaching Service” for Education
July 5, 2023
In the field of medical education, there’s a growing recognition of the importance of incorporating learners in direct care services with hospitalists to address the needs of both the learners and...
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Rounding Project Wins Shark Tank Competition
July 5, 2023
Dr. Franco A project intending to help optimize how rounding is performed in hospitals won this year’s Research Shark Tank competition at SHM Converge in March, coming after a compelling set of...
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Evolution of IDTs
July 5, 2023
This informative session was geared towards team-building enthusiasts as well as those just starting to develop hospital-based teams. The speakers introduced the meeting with a case study on Amazing...
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Creative Ways to Expand Academic Opportunities Through Multicenter Networks
July 5, 2023
You wouldn’t think COVID-19 would bring us together, not with masks and social distancing, but that’s exactly what this session was about—how four physicians learned to build multicenter...
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The Holy Grail of Survey Design: Achieving a 90% Response Rate
- Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, MPH
July 5, 2023
In this talk, Ms. Keniston, director of data and analytics in the division of hospital medicine at the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colo., provided an overview of survey design. Dr. Michtalik,...
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Retaining Physicians is Crucial and Can be Hard—But It’s Possible
July 5, 2023
Employee retention sign and figurines on the memo sticks. As he stood before the audience talking about the high rate at which physicians are leaving health care, and the challenges to retaining...
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SHM 2023 Awards of Excellence and Junior Investigator Award
June 1, 2023
The HOMERuN COVID-19 Collaborative Group, winner of the Excellence in Teamwork award, included more than 150 members across 80 institutions. SHM’s Awards of Excellence Program honors members...
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LGBTQIA+ Allyship
June 1, 2023
Dr. O’Toole Hospitalists are in a unique position to be allies for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other (LGBTQIA+) community because they’re on the...
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SIG Spotlight: Family Medicine
June 1, 2023
Hospital medicine is often synonymous with internal medicine, but as Bob Dylan famously said, the times they are a-changin’. Family-medicine-trained hospital medicine practitioners may only...
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Multiverse of Medicine
- Adam J. Gray, MD;
- Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD, MPH;
- Paula Skarda, MD
June 1, 2023
A captivating feature of hospital medicine is its variety and flexibility. This manifests daily in our clinical duties caring for a wide spectrum of patients and diseases. While our hours are long,...