Burke Kealey, MD, SFHM
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Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine Track Helps Hospitalists Achieve ABIM Recertification
February 2, 2015
This is the year I complete my second recertification for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). Prior to 1990, the ABIM issued certificates that were good for life. Beginning in 1990 and through 2013, all certificates were issued for a 10-year duration.
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Cut Costs, Improve Quality and Patient Experience
December 2, 2014
“Now that’s a fire!” —Eddie Murphy This is the final column in my five-part series tracing the history of the hospitalist movement and the factors that propelled it into becoming the fastest growing medical specialty in history and the mainstay of American medicine that it has become. In the
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Focus on Patient Experience Strengthens Hospital Medicine Movement
October 15, 2014
Monitoring, improving patient experiences gains importance as hospitalists target quality initiatives
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Hospital Patient Safety, Quality Movement Helped Propel Hospitalists
August 1, 2014
Early hospitalists well positioned to improve inpatient care, expand specialty
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How Generation X-Era Physicians Have Energized Hospital Medicine
June 1, 2014
Gen-X hospitalists’ desire to work independently, achieve work-life balance has helped grow HM specialty at fast pace
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The Rise, Evolution of Hospital-Based Practice
April 1, 2014
Factors that created hospital medicine groups, led primary care physicians to become hospitalists
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Empathy Can Help Hospitalists Improve Patient Experience, Outcomes
July 1, 2013
An empathetic approach to inpatient care can boost satisfaction scores
