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    Chapter Spotlight: Central and Southwest Virginia

    October 2, 2023

    Dr. Odeti Shyam Odeti, MD, MS, FAAFP, MBA, SFHM, was in Johnson City, Tenn., five years or so ago when he helped start an SHM chapter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee and...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Lake Erie/Northeast Ohio

    September 1, 2023

    Success is defined differently by different leaders. Some leaders of SHM chapters might be sated by having won a 2022 Silver Award. Not Tanveer Singh, MD, FACP, FRCP (Edin), FHM, president of the...

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    SIG Spotlight: Value-based Care

    September 1, 2023

    The majority of health care in the U.S.—and the majority of hospital medicine practice models—is delivered on a fee-for-service basis, but is that the best construct through which to administer...

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    SIG Spotlight: Med-Peds

    August 1, 2023

    Hospitalists trained in both pediatric and adult medicine don’t always feel grounded as a comrade among either cadre of caregivers. Consider SHM’s Med-Peds Special Interest Group (SIG) that sense...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Utah

    August 1, 2023

    For many SHM chapters nationwide, leadership through the COVID-19 pandemic paved the way for chapter growth and progress post-pandemic. But what if a chapter used 2020 not as a bridge to success,...

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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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    Chapter Spotlight: St. Louis

    June 1, 2023

    St. Louis downtown city skyline at twilight. To many, engagement is a buzzword used to make employees feel as if they have a say. Dr. Hoque To Farzana Hoque, MD, MRCP (UK), FACP, FRCP,...

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    SIG Spotlight: Global Hospital Medicine

    May 1, 2023

    All of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIG) look to solve issues, but some are more challenging in scope than others. Those focused on the spread of interdisciplinary rounding, or the improvement...

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    Chapter Spotlight: North Florida

    May 1, 2023

    Matthew Calestino, MD, FACP, SFHM,—along with Drs. Handel Desa and Calixto Zaldivar—helped found the North Florida chapter of SHM in 2018 with an eye toward building a cohesive network of...

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    SIG Spotlight: DEI

    April 3, 2023

    Diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI. Sometimes the buzzword that DEI has become can evoke a sense of being overwhelmed. So many things can seem to fall short of important goals that even trying...