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High-Value Care/Things We Do For No Reason
In this impactful session, Dr. Lee defined value as the sum of quality of care, equity, patient outcome, and experience divided by costs of care and nonfinancial risks and harms. High-value care...
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Mid-career “Phronesis”
The 2023 SHM Converge Conference in Austin, Texas was the backdrop for a chance encounter between two old friends. We and our spouses met during residency 20 years ago, became fast friends, and then...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2022
In 2022, a New York Times headline declared, “Saving kids is bad business in America.”1 Pediatric hospitalists were faced with an unprecedented winter surge due to the “tripledemic” of COVID-19,...
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Improving Communications Between ED and Hospitalist Physicians, Viewpoints...
Dr. Michael and Dr. Andrew Pfeffer are brothers who each presented a side of the emergency department(ED)/hospitalist points of conflict. They set the scope of the talk with data from 2020 that there...
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Immigrant Hospitalists Share Struggles and Discuss Paths to Progress
Harkesh Arora, MD, a hospitalist at Lovelace Medical Group in Albuquerque, N.M., said she has grown sad and frustrated by her long—and, so far, futile—effort to obtain an EB-1A, an employment-based...
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Research is Possible—and Vital—as a Hospitalist
When you’re in the middle of yet another impossibly busy week, making time for research in hospital medicine might seem next to impossible. But it is possible—and enormously important for the health of...
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Experts Offer Tips to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in Hospital Medicine
When it comes to job satisfaction, many hospitalists might find themselves in a kind of in-between posture: Their jobs are, well, mostly fine. Dr. Pierce But Read Pierce, MD, chief of hospital medicine...
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Harm to Patients in Hospital Calls for Transparency
When unexpected events happen in the hospital, resulting in harm to a patient, having early and transparent conversations with patients and families is the key to getting to the best resolution,...
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Rebuilding Trust a Top Priority for Hospitalists
In addition to all of the more obvious effects such as deaths and lingering comorbidities wrought by the disease, a somewhat counterintuitive phenomenon took hold during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather...
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Psychological Safety a Must for HM Education
When the space shuttle Challenger exploded in the sky in 1986, a group of engineers’ fears had come true: They had known a critical failure was possible at the low temperatures that were seen around...
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Editorial Board Picks for Must-Attend Converge 2024 Sessions
If you’re attending SHM Converge 2024 in San Diego in April, you’ve probably already checked out the jam-packed schedule and may have even started circling the sessions you want to attend. We checked...
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Things to Do in Sunny San Diego
The historic aircraft carrier, USS Midway Museum moored in Broadway Pier in San Diego. SHM Converge 2024 is just around the corner, taking place from April 12 to 15. While noting down the sessions you...
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SHM Converge 2024: Message from the Course Director
If you’re anything like me, you need something to look forward to in the spring after the dark days of winter. Enter Converge 2024, in sunny San Diego, April 12-15! On behalf of the Annual Conference...
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Make the Most of Your Time at Converge 2024
Professional development comes in many forms—continuing education, research, webinars, meetings, and more—but perhaps the most efficient, rewarding, and inspiring option is in attending an in-person,...
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