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Expanded Care Roles for AI and Lots More: Seasoned Hospitalists Share Top Changes to the Specialty
December 2, 2024
What have been some of the most significant changes in hospital medicine since the specialty was established? What recent highs and lows have occurred in hospital medicine or healthcare as a whole?...
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Chapter Spotlight: Long Island
December 2, 2024
For some early career hospitalists, it can take years to realize the value of networking. Some practitioners in their first years on the job can get caught up in the day-to-day work and not...
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Less Bloat, More Clarity: Optimizing Inpatient Notes
- Elizabeth Mertens, MD;
- Vanessa McFadden, MD, PhD, SFHM
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap The objectives of this session were to define note bloat, identify unnecessary contributors to clinical note length, describe methods to decrease extraneous data and improve...
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Chapter Spotlight: Nebraska
November 1, 2024
Mohammed Zalabani, MD, FHM, had just stepped away from a directorship role and was looking for less leadership responsibility and more time with “my kids and my family and my house and my...
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Lessons from an Astronaut
November 1, 2024
Recap of PHM plenary session presented by Lieutenant Colonel Jasmin Moghbeli On May 25, 2017, a call came up on Jasmin Moghbeli’s phone from a Houston, Texas number which would change the course...
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SHM’s 2024 Hospital Medicine Workforce Experience Report Provides Insight into the Perceptions of Hospitalists
October 1, 2024
Ms. Caponiti is SHM’s practice management manager. SHM is excited to announce the publication of the 2024 Hospital Medicine Workforce Experience Report. The 2024 Report, based on data...
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“First You Take a Drink, Then the Drink Takes a Drink, Then the Drink Takes You”
- Anthony Dao, MD;
- Carol Faulk, MD;
- Dennis Chang, MD, FHM;
- Kieran Patel, MD;
- Michael Wenzinger, MD
October 1, 2024
Substance use disorders in physicians The title of this article, a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald, illustrates the experience of alcohol use disorder. Although physicians are comfortable recognizing...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospitalist Well-Being
October 1, 2024
A safe, compassionate space to address the systemic nature of the problem Well-being, at least in hospitalist circles, can’t mean a once-a-year yoga session. In the view of, Swati Mehta, MD,...
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Diverse Mentorship Options Allow a Tailored Approach
September 3, 2024
Mentorship has been shown to have numerous benefits for mentees such as increasing confidence, mitigating burnout, improving physician retention, and successful career development.1 According to...
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Hospitalist Leaders Reflect on the Importance of Mentorship
September 3, 2024
With hospital medicine a newer specialty, mentorship has an extra special role, say several hospitalist leaders who have spent much of their careers serving as mentors for others. Mentoring helps...