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    SIG Spotlight: Multi-site Leaders

    August 1, 2024

    When you’ve seen one hospital-medicine group, as the saying goes, you’ve seen one hospital-medicine group. But when you’ve seen one multi-site hospital-medicine group, chances are you’ve...

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    Chapter Spotlight: New Hampshire and Vermont

    August 1, 2024

    Perhaps the best description of SHM’s combined New Hampshire and Vermont chapter is camaraderie and curriculum, with a dash of snow. Dr. Krawitt “We’re creating…a kind of neighborhood...

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    Facing the Inevitable: Cyberattacks in Healthcare

    June 3, 2024

    Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA, FAMIA, SFHM has been a hospitalist for 20 years, and a board-certified clinical informatician for the last eight years. But the cyberattack on UnitedHealthcare unit...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Pee Dee

    June 3, 2024

    COVID-19 was brutal on SHM chapters nationwide, immediately forcing events to teleconference technology and eliminating the in-person networking and education that has become a staple of the...

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    SIG Spotlight: Patient Experience

    June 3, 2024

    Length of stay, work-relative value units, hospital-acquired infections. There is no shortage of metrics—and their accompanying acronyms—that silo, summarize, and study whether hospitalists are...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Kansas

    May 1, 2024

    All SHM chapters talk about getting early-career hospitalists more involved. The Kansas chapter puts its money where its mouth is. Dr. Rafiq Its president, Ali Rafiq, MD, FACP, first got...

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    SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Fellowships

    May 1, 2024

    Being a new kid on the block can be daunting, even in the world of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Longer-standing SIGs have board protocols, event schedules, and a history to rely on when...

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    SIG Spotlight: Interhospital Transfers

    March 1, 2024

    SHM prides itself on connecting teams of like-minded physicians who don’t otherwise have folks they can connect with on their chosen niche within hospital medicine. But what happens when that...

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    Chapter Spotlight: San Diego

    March 1, 2024

    Ali Farkhondehpour, MD, FACP, FHM, was a third-year medical student who got involved in SHM early in his career, so it likely wouldn’t surprise anyone he’s risen to president of its San Diego...

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    SIG Spotlight: Physician Advisors

    February 1, 2024

    Physician advisors are responsible for a lot. Their work exists at the intersection of clinical matters and revenue. Think clinical documentation, hospital quality measures, length-of-stay...