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CAN Framework: Leadership Essentials for Early Career Hospitalists
- Sep 18, 2025
A study highlighted that early career hospitalists expressed the importance of “being respected and recognized,” and “dissemination of work,” both of which are associated with career satisfaction.
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A Hospitalist’s Preparedness Guide for Working in Behavioral Health Centers
- Sep 4, 2025
By providing medical care to individuals with mental health conditions, hospitalists help bridge the gap between physical and psychiatric services, fostering a more comprehensive approach to patient care.
SHM's Leadership Academy Turns 20: Leaders Reflect on Its Impact and Evolution
- Aug 21, 2025
“We’d been trained as physicians, not as leaders and businesspeople,” said Dr. Howell, who was then a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins. “So we were often in the middle of those financial discussions—or, frankly, tense negotiations with other physicians or hospital leaders—and none of that was taught in medical school.”
Don’t Throw Away Your Shot: Negotiations
- Aug 6, 2025
Many of us did not go into medicine to negotiate and so feel uncomfortable with negotiations. However, these tips and principles provide simple guidelines for becoming a successful negotiator.
Career Hospitalist Advisement and Mentorship Program (CHAMP)
- Jul 23, 2025
Although most residents actively seek mentorship in specific domains, there remains an unmet need for comprehensive, curated, longitudinal mentorship programs during early career development.
The National Hospital Medicine Writing Content
- Jul 9, 2025
Drs. Burden and Keniston, both of the University of Colorado at Anschutz, co-founded the National Hospital Medicine Writing Challenge to inspire and encourage hospitalists and other hospital medicine staff to establish a daily writing practice through a light-hearted, friendly competition.
Trends and Benefits for Hospitalists, and How They Help With Recruitment and Retention
- Jun 25, 2025
Every incentive counts when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent. In particular, today’s hospitalists view funding for continuing medical education (CME) and getting paid time off (PTO) as some of the most important benefits.
Empowering Growth: The Impact of Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Coaching on Career Development
- Jun 11, 2025
Having a mentor increases career satisfaction, improves retention, enhances career goals, and augments academic productivity. “A sponsor talks about you, a mentor talks to you, and a coach talks with you.”
The Balancing Act: How Hospitalists Juggle Clinical and Teaching Responsibilities
- May 28, 2025
It’s incredibly challenging to balance the responsibilities of academic medicine with the clinical responsibilities of being a hospitalist. It’s almost like two full-time jobs you’re supposed to be doing at the same time.”
Leadership & professional development: Developing expertise in traditionally subspecialty topics
- May 15, 2025
The field of medicine is well delineated into distinct specialties and subspecialties, leading to the illusion that career paths are pre-set and pursuit of a niche is limited to pre-specified selections found on the National Residency Match Program (NRMP) list. However, necessity is the mother of invention, and many of the current narrowly focused subspecialties were born out of ingenuity and recognition of a gap in clinical care delivery.
Cognitive load in hospital medicine: Implications for teachers, learners, and programs
- May 1, 2025
Practicing medicine is cognitively demanding. One must recall and integrate vast knowledge into care, often in fast-paced, chaotic environments. Our brains can only work so hard—and if we are overwhelmed, we do not learn effectively. This is why the days we are pushed beyond our capacity end up a blur and contribute less to learning.
Leadership & professional development: The tension in transition: Moving from trainee to hospitalist
- Apr 17, 2025
The transition from training to unsupervised practice is complex and full of challenges. We suggest taking inventory of three important assets for a successful start.
IMGs in the U.S. Healthcare System
- Apr 3, 2025
Part II of the two-part series "From Abroad to Bedside" focused on the academic milieu surrounding international medical graduates (IMGs). This article focuses on applying to U.S medical residency, perceptions of the U.S. healthcare system, and the overall impact of IMGs in the U.S.
Pro-motility agents: Mobilizing mentors to make progress
- Mar 20, 2025
One of the most important roles of a mentor is the ability to foresee potential roadblocks or barriers to a mentee's progress. We previously discussed one of those barriers in this journal—“poster-paresis,” when a project stalls after a successful conference presentation.1 While those strategies address project leaders, mentors also play an important role in preventing this paralytic state by serving as “pro-motility agents.”
Leadership & professional development: From setback to setup
- Mar 6, 2025
Physicians are high achievers who expect the best from themselves and are often met with career success. However, career setbacks are a common part of this journey and effectively responding to them is crucial.
Global Hospital Medicine
- Feb 20, 2025
How do U.S. hospitalists find their way into international hospital medicine and global health care—and what have they learned on the journey? Several hospitalist leaders in global health care contacted for this article shared very different paths to their international connections.
