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High-Value Care in Pediatrics: Things We Do for No Reason
- Ann-Marie Tantoco, MD, FAAP, FHM
July 1, 2022
Dr. Tantoco Presenter: Mike Tchou, MD, MSc, Children’s Hospital of Colorado/University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo. Dr. Tchou began by defining value as an equation, with...
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Rethinking Hospitalist Work: Reimagining Workforce Goals
- Joanna M. Bonsall, MD, PhD, SFHM
July 1, 2022
Presenters: Marisha Burden, MD, FACP, SFHM, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colo., and Angela Keniston, MSPH, University of Colorado The speakers at this Converge session...
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How Principles of High-Intensity Interval Training Can Boost Your Career Productivity
- Dan Griffin BS CSCS;
- Nila S. Radhakrishnan MD
June 1, 2022
HIIT your goals! Everyone manages never-ending career and personal demands, and hospitalists are no different. We’re treating and caring for patients and dealing with urgent issues that need our...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Administrators
May 2, 2022
The opening minutes of the monthly online gathering for SHM’s Hospital Medicine Administrators (HMA) Special Interest Group (SIG) can sound more like a support group than anything else. “We go...
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Hospitalists Talk about Rebuilding Trust in Health Care
- Ankit Mehta MD FACP SFHM;
- Benji K. Mathews, MD, FACP, SFHM
May 2, 2022
Dr. Mehta Trust is fundamental to the practice of medicine. As the foundation of a therapeutic relationship, it’s essential for effective care delivery. Trust is a fragile bond, an agreement...
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SHM Advocates for Hospitalists and Their Patients
May 2, 2022
Advocacy, simply put, is the act of pleading or arguing in favor of something. It’s raising the concerns and voices of a group to efficiently influence decisions and affect change within...
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Health care systems can do more to support environmental health services employees
May 2, 2022
Clinical question: What has been the experience of environmental services (EVS) employees working during the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Gordon Background: EVS employees play an essential role in...
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Hospital Supply Chains
May 2, 2022
The supply chain. Lean manufacturing. Just-in-time economy. Unless you hold a business degree or just love reading the Wall Street Journal, chances are these terms weren’t part of your vocabulary...
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Back to basics
- Jerome C. Siy, MD, MHA, SFHM
April 1, 2022
Dr. Siy Where does one begin as we charge into a third year of a pandemic? Hospitalists have leaped hurdle after hurdle to care for COVID-19 patients and those we cared for in congregate living...
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Workforce Issues
April 1, 2022
Silver linings emerge for hospitalists For Elisabeth Souther, MD, chief of hospital medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a rural, academic hospital with almost 400 beds in Lebanon, N.H.,...