News
HM=Improved Patient Care
June 1, 2011
Healthcare heavyweights confident hospitalists will make a difference
News
HM11 BREAKOUT SESSIONS OVERVIEW
June 1, 2011
A roundup of key presentations spanning clinical, career, academic, and practice management issues
News
HM11 Special Report: Pediatric Perils
June 1, 2011
Balanced, risk-based approach appropriate for ALTEs
News
Something for Everyone
June 1, 2011
HM11 attendees get the most out of educational and networking offerings
News
What Corticosteroid is Most Appropriate for treating Acute Exacerbations of CoPD?
June 1, 2011
Systemic corticosteroids are recommended for patients admitted with AECOPD, with benefits including shortened recovery time, improved lung function and hypoxemia, prolonged time to subsequent exacerbation, and reduced rates of treatment failure and hospital length of stay.
Opinion
Good Advice, Bad Advice?
June 1, 2011
Professional development, career satisfaction depend on good decisions
News
Establish Clear Goals Before Changing Improvement Projects
June 1, 2011
Before you take any steps to improve efficiency, you need to ask what “efficiency” means.
Audio
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to HM11 faculty discuss portable ultrasound and new ACGME rules
June 1, 2011
HM11 pre-course faculty Brad Rosen, MD, FHM, believes portable ultrasound technology will impact HM in a positive way; Jeffrey Schnipper, MD, MPH, FHM, talks about new rules on resident duty hours and patient caps
Audio
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to new SHM President Joseph Li’s goals
June 1, 2011
Dr. Li, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the hospital medicine division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, shares his thoughts about his presidency and the future of HM
Audio
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Former Obama advisor Bob Kocher talks about hospitalists and health reform
June 1, 2011
Robert Kocher, MD, former Obama special assistant who is the director of the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform in Washington, D.C., talks about the role HM will play in implementing healthcare reform