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  • SHM's Leadership Academy Turns 20: Leaders Reflect on Its Impact and Evolution

    • Aug 21, 2025
    • Thomas R. Collins

    “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
    • Joanna Bonsall, MD, PhD, FACP, SFH; Alyssa M. Stephany, MD, MS, FAAP, PCC (ICF), SFHM; Carrie Herzke, MD, MBA, SFHM

    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
    • Agostina Velo, MD; Benjamin Hack, MD; Forough Hakimzada, MD; Krystle Hernandez, MD; Vasundhara Singh, MD, FACP, SFHM; Andrew Dunn, MD, MACP, FRCP, SFHM; Eric Barna, MD, MPH

    Although most residents actively seek mentorship in specific domains, there remains an unmet need for comprehensive, curated, longitudinal mentorship programs during early career development.

  • Empowering Growth: The Impact of Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Coaching on Career Development

    • Jun 11, 2025
    • Ann Perrin, MD, MPH; Laura Paletta-Hobbs, MD; And Teela Crecelius, MD

    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
    • Ruth Jessen Hickman

    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
    • Mikhail Y. Akbashev MD, Tiffany A. Walker MD

    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.

  • Leadership & professional development: The tension in transition: Moving from trainee to hospitalist

    • Apr 17, 2025
    • Whitney Cameron DO, MSc, MSCTR, Daniel Herchline MD, MSEd

    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.

  • Pro-motility agents: Mobilizing mentors to make progress

    • Mar 20, 2025
    • V. Ram Krishnamoorthi MD, MPH, Shannon K. Martin MD, MS

    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
    • Jennifer Lom MD, Eva Rimler MD

    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
    • 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.

  • 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.

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

    • Jan 22, 2025
    • 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

  • 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

    • Oct 23, 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.

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

    • Oct 23, 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Career Spotlight: Krishna C. Syamala

    • May 16, 2024
    • Krishna C. Syamala

    Dr. Syamala is a hospitalist at SSM Health St. Joseph Lake Saint Louis in Lake Saint Louis, Mo. He earned his medical degree from Guntur Medical College in Guntur, India, and completed his residencies at ARH Regional Medical Center in Hazard, Ky., and Help Hospital in India.