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  • Global Hospital Medicine

    • Feb 20, 2025
    • Larry Beresford

    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.

  • Prevalence of burnout and impact of workload on physician wellness: A cross-sectional survey of hospitalists in British Columbia, Canada

    • Feb 6, 2025
    • Vandad Yousefi MD, CCFP, FHM, DRCPSC

    Hospitalists in British Columbia care for a large percentage of hospitalized patients across 21 acute care facilities. We aimed to characterize the demographic and work attributes of the workforce and to understand levels of burnout and the relationship between workload and job satisfaction.

  • Guiding while growing: The dual role of early career mentors

    • Jan 23, 2025
    • Samir S. Shah MD, MSCE, MHM

    Early career physicians often ask me for guidance on when they should venture into mentorship. Serving as a scholarship or research mentor at an early career stage is both challenging and rewarding.

  • Hospitalists Provide Insight on Working at VA Hospitals

    • Jan 9, 2025
    • Karen Appold

    The Hospitalist asked SHM members who work for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to share their insights on working for the largest integrated healthcare system in the U.S. Overwhelmingly, hospitalists cited as the greatest benefit the privilege to provide care to those who served our country. They also touted many other perks, such as research and educational opportunities, and excellent benefits.

  • Job Hunt Essentials for Hospitalists

    • Dec 26, 2024
    • Maria Maldonado, MD and Laura Paletta-Hobbs, MD

    A meticulously curated CV not only recounts your career path thus far but also hints at future achievements and highlights what you bring to the table as an applicant for any organization.

  • Mentoring: Shaping the professional identity of the academic internal medicine hospitalist

    • Dec 12, 2024
    • Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach MD, Maria Klimenko MD, Kimberly Fluet PhD, Valerie J. Lang MD, MHPE

    Burnout and lagging academic productivity are pressing challenges in hospital medicine, leading to stagnation and attrition. Mentoring shapes professional identity formation and enhances faculty vitality and retention, but has not been optimized among academic hospitalists.

  • Dr. Pyke Has Great Advice for Early-Career Hospitalists

    • Nov 28, 2024
    • O’Neil J. Pyke, MD, MBA, SFHM

    Q & A with O’Neil J. Pyke, MD, MBA, SFHM, chief medical officer, Jackson North Medical Center, Jackson Health System, Miami

  • Putting equity at the forefront as telehealth advances: A hospitalist perspective

    • Nov 14, 2024
    • Courtney Sump MD, James D. Odum MD, Med, Marie A. Pfarr MD, MSc

    Telehealth is a healthcare delivery modality that remotely connects patients to providers and presents a unique opportunity for new applications relevant to the hospitalist.

  • Hospitalist Futures: Turning Turbulence into Favorable Change

    • Oct 31, 2024
    • D. Ruby Sahoo, DO, MBA, FACP, SFHM

    While we continue to provide significant value to hospitals and communities in our care, our compensation has the potential to change adversely, if it hasn’t already.

  • Reclaiming the review of systems: An opportunity for medical educators

    • Oct 17, 2024
    • Adam Rodman MD, MPH, Gurpreet Dhaliwal MD

    The demise of the obligatory ROS offers clinical educators an opportunity to center the encounter on the patient rather than the note.

  • Dr. Craven Finds Purpose in Helping Patients

    • Oct 3, 2024
    • Robert A. Craven, MD

    Q & A with Robert A. Craven, MD, FACP, CHCQM-PHYADV, SFHM, vice president of case management, physician advisor, and hospitalist at McLeod Health, Florence, S.C.

  • Put away the shoe polish: Strengthen a learning culture by embracing vulnerability

    • Sep 19, 2024
    • Samir S. Shah MD, MSCE, MHM

    JHM's Editor-in-Chief encourages leaders to embrace the opportunity within vulnerability. He provides tips for leading by example and encouraging vulnerability to build trust within employees.

  • Identifying and Supporting the Needs of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residents Interested in Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship

    • Sep 5, 2024
    • Elizabeth Boggs MD, MS, Harrison Luttrell MD, William Basco MD, MS, Mark Brittan MD, MPH, Karen Jerardi MD, MEd, Jeri Kessenich MD, Valien Kondos DO, Jennifer O'Toole MD, MEd, Jeffrey Solomon MD, Tony Tarchichi MD, Ashley Jenkins MD, MSc

    Pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) became a subspecialty of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) in 2016. Starting in 2019, residency graduates are required to complete fellowship training to qualify for PHM board eligibility. These requirements pose unique challenges to internal medicine–pediatrics (med-peds) residents interested in practicing combined adult hospital medicine (HM) and PHM.

  • Towards a better system of caring

    • Aug 22, 2024
    • Alexa Manrriquez MD, Gitanjli Arora MD

    While it may feel to individual physicians that we have little control over the systemic, cultural, and historical context in which patients receive care, physicians have an essential role in identifying and dismantling structures that limit our ability to provide that care.

  • Making tools that work for us: Improving clinical decision support

    • Aug 8, 2024
    • Danni Liang MD, Matthew J. Molloy MD, MPH

    CDS tools are implemented with the goal of increasing evidence-based practice and improving patient outcomes, but evidence from clinical trials on the impact of these tools is mixed.

  • Methods progress note: Applying dissemination and implementation science models to enhance hospital‐based quality improvement

    • Jul 25, 2024
    • Anna M. Maw MD, MS, Amy G. Huebschmann MD, MSc, Christine D. Jones MD, MS

    D&I Models are great tools to guide both QI and research project planning, implementation, and evaluation in hospital medicine. Using D&I Models can ensure that you measure what matters to key partners, consider context, rapidly identify and address barriers, and monitor for disparities in implementation.

  • Communication Everywhere All at Once – the Art of Leveraging Tech

    • Jul 11, 2024
    • Kelsey Perry, MD; Jilian R. Sansbury, MD, FACP, FHM; Alan M. Hall, MD, FAAP, SFHM; Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD, MPH, SFHM

    Modern communication practices have added more opportunities and associated challenges. As technology changes, the practice for inpatient providers must adapt, and the fundamentals of communication and careful listening must remain.

  • Are You Asking the Right Questions in a Job Interview?

    • Jun 27, 2024
    • Erica Grabscheid, MD, FACP, FHM; Anand Shukla, MD; Jessica Sarmiento, MD

    Most interviewees prepare for typical questions the potential employer may ask. However, you may be best served arming yourself with smart, appropriate questions instead.

  • How to Handle Medical Board Complaints and Investigations

    • Jun 13, 2024
    • Robert A. Craven, MD, FACP, CHCQM-PHYADV, SFHM

    Few things cause panic in a doctor’s life like a phone call or letter from a state medical board. Here are some tips to keep your state medical board on your side.

  • Getting Another Degree While Working… Or Not?

    • May 30, 2024
    • Catie Glatz, MD

    This edition of JHMChat discusses the pros and cons of pursuing an additional degree while working. While the desire to pursue another degree may be strong, participants admitted that significant barriers often exist, including a lack of time, money, and energy to pursue additional training while working. The HM community weighs in.