The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is a medical society comprised of hospitalists that exists to promote exceptional care for hospitalized patients.
Finding and choosing right candidate among the many qualified applicants takes time and careful consideration. SHM’s Career Center matches jobs and job seekers and allows employers to create free accounts to find new talent.
Whether you’re a hospitalist looking for your next career move or a health system in search of your next big star, the SHM Career Center connects you with the career opportunities and talent you need.
Interviewing can be stressful for both the interviewer and interviewee. SHM’s Practice Management Committee assembled 10 key questions that get to the heart of a candidate’s motivation to join your group and will help you reap the greatest benefit from your time.
A well-developed onboarding program can help groups build a strong, committed team that works together effectively. These resources provide an inside look at different approaches for onboarding programs and will help HMG leaders create the program best suited to meet the specific needs of their group.
This resource, developed by the 2022-23 Practice Management Committee for group leaders looking to design schedules, provides an overview of challenges in implementing a system. Also included are best practices and issues leaders should consider when deciding what system works for their group.
This resource, developed by the 2022-23 Practice Management Committee for group leaders looking to implement best-practice staffing backup systems, provides an overview of challenges in implementing a system. Also included are best practices and issues leaders should consider when deciding what system works for their group.
View this webinar for a discussion about various backup systems and learn how to create a backup that works for your group.
View this webinar for a discussion on how to create and implement the best schedule for your team. Panelists will discuss various scheduling models and the pros and cons that can come with each model, along with some new solutions to common scheduling challenges.
If you have questions about managing your schedule or backup system, we encourage you to post on HMX to get feedback from other SHM members.
The best employees are those who are engaged and committed to the health of their patients and success of the organization.
The Hospital Medicine Workforce Experience Report explores the perceptions of hospitalists on issues such as workplace structures, patient volumes and safety, work/life balance, leadership support, and the roles these play in professional fulfillment and burnout amongst hospitalists.
The Hospital Medicine Workforce Experience Data Addendum is a supplement to the Report for those that want to dig deeper into the data. It includes detailed tables on participant demographics, burnout and professional fulfillment, percentage of time dedicated to clinical work, patient census and safety, and leadership support. The Hospital Medicine Workforce Experience Survey tool is also available.
Burnout is a key issue the entire medical field must face. SHM is committed to supporting hospitalists with resources that take a holistic response to not just reducing burnout, but ultimately promoting wellbeing at all levels in hospitalist medicine groups.
In the medical realm, cultural humility describes awareness of how people’s culture can impact their health behaviors. This awareness is critical to developing sensitive approaches in treating patients.
Our framework encourages hospitalists to be humble, learn what is important to the patient, and leave every encounter having learned something from the interaction. By practicing cultural humility, hospitalists can win the hearts and minds of patients, families, and care team members they do not know in their everyday practice.
Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) are integral members of the hospital medicine team. SHM has developed a suite of resources to assist both from an administrative and an individual NP/PA perspective, to onboard, integrate and engage NPs and PAs in hospital medicine.
Practice administrators perform core functions in hospital medicine groups and can serve in a variety of different capacities. SHM developed tools and resources to help practice administrators grow in their professional careers and build a healthy culture for both employees and patients.