A Look Back at The Masters in HM
May 12, 2022
Every year since, 2009, SHM has awarded the Master in Hospital Medicine (MHM) designation to those members who reach the apex of distinguished prestige in the hospital medicine community. These...
Celebrating the 2021 Chapter Excellence Status Awards Recipients
May 12, 2022
The Chapter Excellence Awards are bestowed annually to recognize outstanding work conducted by chapters to carry out the SHM mission locally. They’re comprised of Status Awards and Exemplary...
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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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SHM’s New President, Dr. Thompson, Talks about the Future
May 2, 2022
Dr. Thompson In February of 2019, I wrote The Amazing Work We Get To Do 10 months before the first case of COVID-19 at Providence Everett in Washington was diagnosed. In that article, I wrote of...
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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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SHM’s Leadership Academy
April 1, 2022
Invest in yourself and the leader you want to be SHM’s Leadership Academy was created to address an education gap common among physicians—leadership skills. These skills are not uniformly taught...
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Back to basics
April 1, 2022
Dr. Siy Where does one begin as we charge into a third year of a pandemic? Hospitalists have leaped hurdle after hurdle to care for COVID-19 patients and those we cared for in congregate living...
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Volunteers—making SHM an educational, scientific, and advocacy powerhouse for 25 years
April 1, 2022
For Ramesh Adhikari, MD, MS, FHM, a hospitalist with Franciscan Alliance in Lafayette, Ind., volunteering for SHM seemed like the right thing to do. “My motivation was to advance the field of...
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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...