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  • CAN Framework: Leadership Essentials for Early Career Hospitalists

    • Sep 18, 2025
    • Farzana Hoque, MD, MRCP, FACP, FRCP

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

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

    • Oct 23, 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Hospitalists Discover Research Can Extend Their Patient Care Impact

    • May 2, 2024
    • Sue Coons, MA

    Through their integral role in patient care, hospitalists are uniquely situated to identify problems on medical wards and to design research interventions to address these issues. Clinicians who’ve gone down this path have found it incredibly rewarding but emphasize that education and mentoring are crucial steps to research success.

  • To Niche or Not to Niche-Should You Subspecialize?

    • Apr 4, 2024
    • Paula Skarda, MD; Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD, MPH, SFHM; Melissa Plesac, MD; Laura Paletta-Hobbs, MD

    Today, there are numerous opportunities when entering the field, leading many to wonder if there is one “correct path” that will lead to a long and prosperous career. Fortunately, there is no incorrect answer to this question. The decision to begin a career as a general hospitalist or pursue a specialized niche within hospital medicine is a personal one. A bit of thoughtful introspection of professional values and personal needs can create an interesting and fulfilling career.

  • Pathway to Promotion

    Pathway to Promotion: Practical Tips and Tools for Early to Mid-career Physicians

    • Jan 25, 2024
    • Charalene Fisher

    Practical tips and tools to help establish your “why,” “what,” and “how” on the path to promotion in academic medicine.

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    Multiverse of Medicine

    • Jul 26, 2023
    • Adam J. Gray, MD; Paula Skarda, MD; Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD, MPH

    This article outlines several hospital medicine career pathways including early tips for involvement in hospital leadership, quality improvement and research, education, and primary clinical care.

  • LGBTQIA+ Allyship

    • Jun 21, 2023
    • Karen Appold

    This articles goes over ways Hospitalists can support our LGBTQIA+ community in different ways.

  • Escape Room Medical Simulations

    • Apr 5, 2023
    • Isha Puri, MD, MPH, FHM

    Medical simulations allow health care professionals to practice and hone their skills in a low-risk environment, making them better prepared to handle real-life medical emergencies.

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    Books for the Hospitalist’s Soul

    • Nov 23, 2022
    • Ryan E. Nelson, Staci J. Saunders, Emma L. Scott, Alan M. Hall

    Complementary to mentorship and experiential learning, select professional-development books can help early-career hospitalists acquire the necessary skills to fulfill their myriad responsibilities.