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SHM invites you to join our family in advancing the career of hospitalists through education, research, and collaboration. Learn how SHM can advance your career. While it is important to remember where we began, SHM is focused on the future of our specialty and the healthcare industry. High-quality and high-value patient care is at the core of who we are as hospitalists.
Just one year after the term “hospitalist” was coined by Drs. Bob Wachter and Lee Goldman, Drs. John R. Nelson and Winthrop F. Whitcomb founded the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) in 1997. This year, we proudly celebrate our 25th anniversary, an incredible milestone for our specialty.
Throughout the last 25 years, hospital medicine has brought immeasurable “value” to our industry and the patients we treat. Together, we influence the value equation, value = quality/cost, by enhancing quality, supporting better coordination of care, and minimizing practices that do not add value. Read full letter.
I credit SHM for giving me the imagination and the vision to expand my job in a lot of different ways that I would never been able to imagine otherwise.
Mary Fredrickson, MD
As SHM celebrates its 25th anniversary I wish this will continue while we further evolve as hospitalists together.
Sandeep Pagali, MD, FHM
I see SHM in the next 25 years continuing to grow as the specialty of hospital medicine grows as well as keeping abreast of all the changes we are going to face like hospital at home in continuing pressures on the specialty to deliver high-value care.
Steve Phillipson, MD, FHM
Hospitalist John Vazquez, MD, calls it cross-pollination.
As the immediate past president of the SHM chapter in Atlanta, he’s referring to the value of networking and the role personal and professional development plays in the busy world of hospital medicine. View full article in The Hospitalist.
Back in 2014, when Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, MACP, SFHM, was the leader of the New Mexico Chapter of the American College of Physicians, she was asked to help support the launch of the state’s first SHM chapter. It was a no-brainer to say yes. View full article in The Hospitalist.
For years, there’d been talk of starting a Rhode Island chapter of SHM. Sure, hospitalists in the smallest state in the country could have hopped state lines to join a chapter in Boston or Hartford, Conn. But that’s not who Rhode Islanders are. View full article in The Hospitalist.
Inpatient beds in Kentucky run the gamut of locations. There are academic medical centers in Lexington and Louisville, a Fort Campbell field hospital along the Tennessee border, and the rural outposts of the state’s southwestern counties (roughly equidistant from Louisville and Little Rock, Ark). So it’s no accident that the Kentucky chapter of SHM dedicates a lot of time, effort, and money to ensure it represents them all. View full article in The Hospitalist.
In early March 2020, the Los Angeles chapter of SHM was hosting former society president and local chapter member Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, MHM, (chief health officer of Cerner, Los Angeles) for an in-person event. The event was particularly exciting for hospitalist Stephanie Zia, MD, MACM, FAAP, FACP, FHM, who was about to take over as chapter president. View full article in The Hospitalist.
More than 25 years ago, hospital medicine was born out of the now obvious-seeming conceit that medical care for hospitalized patients could be qualitatively improved.
So it’s no surprise that today one of the most popular SHM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) born of that movement focuses on quality improvement (QI)—the veritable raison d’être for the specialty. View full article in The Hospitalist.
The opening minutes of the monthly online gathering for SHM’s Hospital Medicine Administrators (HMA) Special Interest Group (SIG) can sound more like a support group than anything else. “We go around checking in,” said chair Elda Dede, MPA, FHM, a hospital medicine administrator with the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky. “’How are things in your practice?’ And we share all the crises and victories—and how it’s going and how we’re handling it. This is our time to seek solutions and exchange best practices.” View full article in The Hospitalist.
Hospitalists don’t focus much on the ins and outs of perioperative care in medical school and residency, but rising surgical volumes in recent years, combined with the ever-growing recognition that hospitalists manage inpatients best, has led to a boom in using hospital medicine professionals to bookend care around procedures. View full article in The Hospitalist.
A little more than a quarter-century ago the emergence of the new medical specialty of hospital medicine was signaled in a New England Journal of Medicine article that defined it by the location for its practice: within the acute hospital. View full article in The Hospitalist.
For Ramesh Adhikari, MD, MS, FHM, a hospitalist with Franciscan Alliance in Lafayette, Ind., volunteering for SHM seemed like the right thing to do. “My motivation was to advance the field of hospital medicine and help other hospitalists as well as myself. It allowed me to grow professionally, meet hospitalists, and help bring them together.” View full article in The Hospitalist.
Advocacy, simply put, is the act of pleading or arguing in favor of something. It’s raising the concerns and voices of a group to efficiently influence decisions and affect change within political, economic, and social institutions. This is exactly what SHM has been doing on behalf of its members and their patients for decades. View full article in The Hospitalist.
The LGBTQIA+ community has doubled since it was first measured in 2012, according to a 2022 Gallup poll—it now includes 7.1% of Americans. As the community expands, so has acceptance and legal protection against discrimination. View full article in The Hospitalist.
From education to professional development, SHM is laser-focused on providing hospital medicine-specific opportunities, including networking, advocacy and leadership development to take your career to the next level. Above all, joining SHM will empower you to make a positive impact on patients and the entire hospital medicine community.