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News
What’s new at HM17
March 31, 2017
One of the top priorities of the HM17 planning committee was to create a diversity of topics that will appeal to hospitalists in a variety of settings. SHM leaders believe they have fulfilled that mandate.
Opinion
Everything We Say and Do: Discussing advance care planning
March 31, 2017
Every health care encounter is an opportunity to better identify and document patients’ wishes for their care.
News
Fellow in Hospital Medicine designation symbolizes physician commitment to hospital medicine
March 31, 2017
The Hospitalist spotlights Umesh Sharma, MD, MBA, FHM, chair of the division of community hospital medicine at Mayo Clinic.
News
HM17: Plenaries – Conway and DeSalvo
March 22, 2017
The keynote speakers at HM17 are both optimistic about the future of the U.S. health care system, despite concerns about the rollback of the Affordable Care Act and what that could mean for access to care.
News
2016 Humanitarian Award
March 14, 2017
Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, SFHM, has earned a 2016 Humanitarian Award, which recognizes “life-saving achievement,” from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation.
News
Everything We Say & Do: What PFACs reveal about patient experience
March 9, 2017
Patient and Family Advisory Councils provide a tool for understanding the patient perspective.
News
Hospitalists trained in family medicine seek critical care training pathway
March 9, 2017
A nationwide shortage of intensivists has more hospitalists stepping into the critical care arena, but not all with the level of preparation and comfort of David Aymond, MD, a Louisiana-based hospitalist trained in family medicine.
News
Sneak Peek: The Hospital Leader Blog
March 8, 2017
Equal time for hospital executives.
Article
Scholar grants help future hospitalists explore career pathways
February 7, 2017
Ernie L. Esquivel, MD, FACP, FHM’s passion for education and research leads to development of SHM student and resident programming.
Article
Everything We Say and Do: Use familiar terminology to allay patients’ fears
February 4, 2017
It is our responsibility to explain to patients' medical situation(s) to them in plain terms that they can comprehend.