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    Chapter Spotlight: Kentucky

    May 2, 2022

    Inpatient beds in Kentucky run the gamut of locations. There are academic medical centers in Lexington and Louisville, a Fort Campbell field hospital along the Tennessee border, and the rural...

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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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    Chapter spotlight: Rhode Island

    April 1, 2022

    For years, there’d been talk of starting a Rhode Island chapter of SHM. Sure, hospitalists in the smallest state in the country could have hopped state lines to join a chapter in Boston or...

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    A commitment to training physicians and SHM: a perfect match

    April 1, 2022

    When Daniel Ricotta, MD, SFHM, matriculated to residency in 2011, he didn’t know what hospital medicine was. Now, as chair of SHM’s Physicians in Training committee, it’s his mission to make...

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    Chapter spotlight: New Mexico

    March 1, 2022

    Back in 2014, when Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, MACP, SFHM, was the leader of the New Mexico Chapter of the American College of Physicians, she was asked to help support the launch of the state’s first...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Atlanta

    February 3, 2022

    Hospitalist John Vazquez, MD, calls it cross-pollination. Dr. Vazquez As the immediate past president of the SHM chapter in Atlanta, he’s referring to the value of networking and the role...

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    SIG Spotlight: Perioperative/Co-management

    February 3, 2022

    Hospitalists don’t focus much on the ins and outs of perioperative care in medical school and residency, but rising surgical volumes in recent years, combined with the ever-growing recognition that...

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    The hidden pandemic

    January 7, 2022

    Dr. Sekaran In the eyes of Anand Sekaran, MD, division head of hospital medicine, and medical director of inpatient services at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., it’s...

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    Hospitalists combat COVID burnout

    January 7, 2022

    Sometimes well-being is as simple as a last-minute bike ride. At the 2021 virtual Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) annual meeting in July, someone on the planning committee asked Mike Tchou, MD, MSc...

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    Meet the two newest SHM board members

    June 26, 2017

    Pediatric hospitalist Kris Rehm, MD, SFHM, and perioperative specialist Rachel Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM, will bring their expertise to bear on the society’s top panel.