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Guiding while growing: The dual role of early career mentors
- Jan 23, 2025
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
- Dec 12, 2024
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
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
- Sep 19, 2024
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
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.
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Communication Everywhere All at Once – the Art of Leveraging Tech
- Jul 11, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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: Practical Tips and Tools for Early to Mid-career Physicians
- Jan 25, 2024
Practical tips and tools to help establish your “why,” “what,” and “how” on the path to promotion in academic medicine.
Multiverse of Medicine
- Jul 26, 2023
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
This articles goes over ways Hospitalists can support our LGBTQIA+ community in different ways.
Escape Room Medical Simulations
- Apr 5, 2023
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.
Books for the Hospitalist’s Soul
- Nov 23, 2022
Complementary to mentorship and experiential learning, select professional-development books can help early-career hospitalists acquire the necessary skills to fulfill their myriad responsibilities.
A Commitment to Training Physicians and SHM: A Perfect Match
- Jun 29, 2022
The Physicians in Training (PIT) committee is one of 15 that advises the board of SHM.
Insights into HM and PHM Fellowship Programs
- May 4, 2022
A hospital medicine fellowship combines the best of hospital medicine with the opportunity for physicians to specialize early in their careers.
SHM Converge April 7-10, 2022
- Nov 26, 2021
SHM Converge 2022 offers world-class education for hospitalists, led by award-winning faculty.
Report Urges Complete Residency Overhaul
- Nov 26, 2021
The transition from undergraduate medical education (UME) to graduate medical education in the United States needs comprehensive reform, says a new report from the Graduate Medical Education Review Committee (UGRC) of the Coalition for Physician Accountability.