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  • The Power of Coaching

    • Feb 12, 2026
    • Chris Sankey, MD, FACP, SFHM

  • 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.

  • The National Hospital Medicine Writing Content

    • Jul 9, 2025
    • Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, MPH; Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH

    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.

  • 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.”

  • Cognitive load in hospital medicine: Implications for teachers, learners, and programs

    • May 1, 2025
    • Erica M. Levine MD, Andrew P. J. Olson MD, Temple Ratcliffe MD, MS-HPEd, Elexis McBee DO, MPH

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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

    • Jan 22, 2025
    • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Budgeting Tips: Keeping Division Finances on Track

    • Apr 18, 2024
    • Karen Appold

    Maintaining a balanced budget can reap benefits beyond your expectations. “Developing a reputation as someone careful and good with finances can help with your future requests and negotiations,” Dr. Bonsall said.

  • 'Med-Peds Hospital Medicine: A Valuable Resource at Risk?

    • Mar 21, 2024
    • David Fish, MD, SFHM; Rachel Peterson, MD, FHM; Madeleine Matthiesen, MD; Alan M. Hall, MD, FAAP, SFHM; Alyssa M. Stephany, MD, MS, FAAP, PCC (ICF), SFHM

    Hospital Medicine has been a growing career choice among combined internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds) physicians with an increasing number of resident graduates entering the field in recent years. The med-peds hospitalist workforce is a valuable resource, but recent changes in subspecialty certification requirements have the potential to negatively impact the growth and potential longevity of the field.

  • Research and Practice

    Research is Possible—and Vital—as a Hospitalist

    • Feb 8, 2024
    • Thomas R. Collins

    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 the field, a panel of experts said in a session at SHM Converge 2023.

  • Safety and Accountability Punnett

    Psychological Safety a Must for HM Education

    • Dec 11, 2023
    • Thomas R. Collins

    Academic Hospital Medicine requires a psychologically safe environment. Deliberately fostering psychological safety yields better learning opportunities, increased innovation, and improved patient safety.

  • The Promotion Application Journey

    • Nov 30, 2023
    • Avital O’Glasser, MD, FACP, SFHM

    In the spirit of paying it forward, I shared my reflection on the promotion-application journey and how I articulated my non-traditional scholarship in my application packet in a Tweetorial, and now in this article.

  • Creative Ways to Expand Academic Opportunities Through Multicenter Networks

    • Aug 31, 2023
    • Jeremy Gentile, DO, FACP

    You wouldn’t think COVID-19 would bring us together, not with masks and social distancing, but that’s exactly what this session was about.

  • Medical professional with pupil

    Methodological progress note: Implementation science contributions to healthcare research and practice

    • Aug 3, 2023
    • Amy Tyler MD, MSCS, Monica Pérez Jolles PhD

    This methodological progress note, the first in a three-part series, offers a high-level overview of implementation science focusing on healthcare settings (vs. community settings).