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Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis and as Hospitalists, It’s Time to Step Up
July 12, 2022
I did not think that becoming a pediatric hospitalist would require me to become an expert in firearm injury, but here I am. Every day more than 300 people are shot in the United States.1,2 That fact...
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How Hospitals Analyze and Learn from Adverse Events
July 1, 2022
Presenter: Daniel Steinberg, MD, FACP, SFHM, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York In this session, the speaker walked through the steps institutions practicing...
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Breaking Into Medical Education: Opportunities, Challenges, & Strategies
July 1, 2022
Dr. Mehta Presenters: Shannon K. Martin, MD, MS, SFHM, University of Chicago, Chicago, Daniel N. Ricotta, MD, SFHM, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass., and Marion Stanley, MD, Northwestern...
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Becoming an Ally for Gender Equity in Medicine
July 1, 2022
Presenters: Jennifer O’Toole, MD, MEd, SFHM, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati While there have been strides in gender equity in the practice of medicine, there’s still a long way...
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The Architecture of a Great Morning Report
July 1, 2022
Dr. Mehta Presenter: Joel M. Bradley, MD, White River Junction VAMC, White River Junction, Vt., and Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Morning reports (MR) were initially developed as...
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Mental Health Boarding on Inpatient Units
July 1, 2022
Dr. Krause Presenter: Heather Kreth, PsyD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Monroe Carrel, Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Heather Kreth, a child and...
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Disaster Management Right up Hospitalists’ Alley
July 1, 2022
At all levels of handling disasters—managing capacity, coordination among hospitals, and biocontainment—hospitalists can and should be more involved, panelists said in a session at SHM...
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Careful Approach to Combatting Misinformation
July 1, 2022
In a world that can feel like it’s awash in misinformation—about COVID-19, politics, and Russian propaganda related to the Ukraine war for example—we all need to make more of an effort to...
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Improve Ward Teaching with Microlearning and Digital Content
July 1, 2022
Dr. Kim Presenter: Chase J. Webber, DO, FACP, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Ky. Learning is an acquired skill, but the way we are taught throughout most of our education is...
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Human Behavior: Implications for Hospital Medicine
July 1, 2022
Presenter: Brad Sharpe, MD, FACP, SFHM, University of California, San Francisco Many aspects of human behavior are influenced by judgments and assessments that occur within fractions of a second....