SHM is just completing the Core Curriculum for Hospital Medicine, which will define the knowledge base for our specialty and serve as the basis for SHM’s growing educational enterprise. SHM is defining the value that hospitalists add beyond just direct patient care. This phenomenon has been the basis for hospitals looking for innovative ways to grow and support their hospital medicine groups. SHM will publish these white papers for hospitalists and hospital executives to use in designing their hospital medicine programs.
SHM has defined the productivity and compensation data for our specialty in our biannual surveys that are the best source for hospitalist data. SHM has developed a Washington presence and is defining the advocacy issues for hospital medicine, including substantial reform of payment to de-emphasize compensation based solely on the unit of the visit or the procedure.
SHM is now an organization with almost $3 million in assets, completely autonomous, and functioning on its own. We have a strong and growing relationship with ACP, and SHM has reached out to partner with many other organizations, including the AHA, ACCP, JCAHO, RWJ, Hartford Foundation, CDC, AACN, ASHP, ABIM, AAP, SGIM, AAIM and many others.
Future
And there is much to look forward to in the next 5 years. In the coming months, SHM will launch the first journal in hospital medicine in January 2006. SHM’s Web site will come into the 21st century with the ability for each member to have their own Web page. The Web site will be the one location that hospitalists can come to for CME and other educational information. SHM will be working with AACP, AACN, ASHP, and others to establish an Acute Care Collaborative, reorganizing hospital workflow to deliver measurable higher-quality health care using interdisciplinary teams of health professionals. This will help to define the hospital of the future.
There will be a certification for hospitalists in the near future. This will define how hospitalists add value and how we are different from other internists, pediatricians, and family practitioners. SHM will also be using the Core Curriculum to not only drive SHM post-graduate education, but to help redefine residency training to produce more and better-trained individuals for a future that includes 30,000 to 40,000 hospitalists.
This has been quite a ride in the last 5 years. I have been fortunate enough to have had a front row seat. And I am not going anywhere soon. This is way too much fun. I just wanted to share with you a few others who have been instrumental in growing SHM.
A Special Thank You to Those Who Did the Work
SHM Presidents
John Nelson
Win Whitcomb
Bob Wachter
Ron Angus
Mark Williams
Jeff Dichter
Jeanne Huddleston
SHM Board Members (in addition to all Presidents)
Bill Atchley
Brad Flansbaum
David Zipes
Diane Craig
Herb Rogove
Jan Merin
Lisa Kettering
Mark Aronson
Mary Jo Gorman
Mike Ruhlen
Mitch Wilson
Pat Cawley
Peter Lindenauer
Richard Slataper
Russ Holman
Steve Pantilat
Editors, The Hospitalist
Scott Flanders
Jim Pile
Committee & Council Chairs (in addition to Board members)
Alpesh Amin
Andy Auerbach
Don Krause
Jack Percelay
Joe Li
Lakshmi Halasyamani
Mike Pistoria
Natalie Correia
Neil Kripalani
Preetha Basaviah
Sanjay Saint
Shaun Frost
Stacy Goldsholl
Sylvia McKean
Teresa Jones
Tim Cornell
Vineet Arora
SHM Staff
Angela Musial
Erica Pearson
Jane Mihelic
Kevin Stevens
Marie Francois
Marilyn Rivera
Michelle D’Agostino
Vera Bensch
Vernita Jackson
Veronica BeUs
Joe Miller
Tina Budnitz