The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is a medical society comprised of hospitalists that exists to promote exceptional care for hospitalized patients.
Connect with other members who share your interests.
Special Interest Groups are an exclusive member benefit. SHM members can participate in as many groups as they wish.
Joining a Special Interest Group is now simpler than ever! Log in to the Hospital Medicine Exchange, browse the full SIG listing page or go directly to the page of the group you’re interested in, and click Join. It’s a quick and easy way to connect with peers who share your interests and advance your professional journey.
Thank you for your interest in starting a new Special Interest Group (SIG). SHM reviews applications for new SIGs annually from June 1 through September 30. Decisions are made on a rolling basis, no later than November 1. Please check back when the application period opens again and contact us at sigs@shm.org with any questions.
SHM reviews each SIG on an annual basis to ensure it is meeting baseline requirements to maintain full SIG status. This is a concerted effort to ensure that all SHM members can be confident SIGs are providing meaningful networking, engagement, leadership, and education/learning opportunities, and that they are receiving a high-quality experience, worthy of their limited time.
To help SIGs and volunteer leaders maintain their SIGs, SHM has developed a SIG Handbook.
SIGs that do not meet the baseline criteria set forth will be sunset. SHM invites any member interested to apply for re-establishment of a SIG by completing an application and petition here above.
Join a network of chiefs, chairs, and leaders in Academic Hospital Medicine practice who understand the difficulty and demands of balancing the tripartite mission of clinical, educational, and scholarly activities and chronicles of two managers: academic and clinical operations. We look forward to networking and achieving the mission-vision through concrete, collaborative, and creative ways.
The Billing Special Interest Group is designed for hospitalists, advanced practice providers, and hospital medicine administrators across all experience levels, from trainees to billing leaders. It offers a collaborative platform to share best practices, stay current with evolving coding and billing guidelines, and improve documentation accuracy and revenue cycle outcomes. The SIG will foster engagement through expert-led virtual meetings and peer discussions on practical topics like split-shared billing, capturing high-level medical decision making, and workflow optimization.
Join the Compassionate Healthcare Collaborative Special Interest Group, a community of, by, and for Hospitalists, healthcare professionals, educators, and leaders who are dedicated to advancing compassion in clinical practice, team culture, and healthcare systems. Through scholarship, education, and collaborative dialogue, we aim to foster environments that reduce burnout, enhance clinician well-being, and improve patient experience & outcomes. By providing a supportive platform for networking, sharing best practices, and generating innovative approaches, we aim to place compassion at the core of hospital medicine and beyond.
Partner with fellow hospitalists who are passionate about promoting care for vulnerable patients within the field of hospital medicine. Working together we will improve other aspects of practice, including patient care, education, research, quality improvement, and professional development.
The Environmental Health Special Interest Group is a dynamic community of hospitalists dedicated to understanding and mitigating the health impacts of climate and environmental factors and decreasing the carbon footprint of hospital care. Our members, including physicians, advanced practice providers, researchers, and learners, collaborate to integrate environmental health principles into hospital medicine. We focus on addressing issues such as climate change, pollution, promoting planetary co-benefits, and environmentally sustainable healthcare practices to improve patient outcomes and community well-being. This group offers a platform for networking, sharing innovative ideas, and advancing professional development across all career stages, fostering a holistic approach to patient care that encompasses environmental determinants of health.
Serves as a resource for discussion, coaching, and mentorship on common and challenging ethical concerns that hospitalists face. This SIG also supports SHM members in collaborating on ethics scholarship, quality improvement projects, and presentations that address ethics in clinical care, education, and policy.
Network, learn, discuss training, share best practices and challenges, and discuss trends related to hospitalists trained in family medicine.
The Geriatrics SIG is dedicated to advancing the care of older adults in hospital settings through collaboration, education, research, and advocacy. We aim to empower clinicians (physicians, advanced practice providers, learners, administrators) with resources to develop age-friendly care. By fostering a community of practice, we strive to improve outcomes for older adults, support professional development, and influence health care systems transformation to meet the needs of an aging population.
Engage in conversations, networking, expertise, and resource sharing on the topics of global health and human rights work among hospitalists. This space is also a place for those practicing hospital medicine outside of North America to share issues and ideas. This SIG aims to build long-term collaborations in the US and abroad.
The Hospital at Home SIG will provide a forum for hospitalists to share best practices, collaborate on projects, and convene with like-minded providers passionate about the care of complex and often underserved patients in an innovative way.
Voice your ideas and learn from the unique perspectives of key management and operational leaders in hospital medicine.
Connect with members looking to build a coalition of individuals to help address the role and challenges of hospital medicine in disaster preparedness and management at both a local and national level.
This centralized community serves to connect members both interested and/or involved in a mosaic of fellowships across hospital medicine. The aim is to create a networking collaborative that socializes current curricular requirements and opportunities, provides resources for individuals or hospitals looking to start a fellowship or fellowship program, serve as a sounding board for ideas, and socializes the need for fellowship programs.
The HM I&E SIG is a community of hospitalist innovators and entrepreneurs who are engaging in translational evidence-based entrepreneurship to accelerate changing ideas to products and services that help patients through the commercialization process. Connect with like-minded individuals to network and find solutions to the valley of death, and join teams of clinicians and engineers to meet our patients’ needs. The iCorps, Lean Launchpad, Hacking for X, Business Model Canvas, Customer Discovery, and prior experience will be our shared tools.
Well-being is essential to finding professional fulfillment, maintaining a sustainable hospital medicine group, and creating a supportive and high-functioning culture for hospitalists. Connect with this group to learn and share about how individuals and groups can take a holistic approach to well-being, to discover resources designed for hospital leaders and well-being advocates who seek to build structures and cultures that promote well-being, and to grow a national network of hospitalist colleagues in well-being.
Network with hospitalists who share an interest in the initiation and maintenance of interdisciplinary rounding (IR) while gaining expertise through structured discussions around implementation strategies, sustainability efforts, and evaluation methods of IR.
As healthcare networks have grown, so have interhospital transfers (IHTs). The IHT SIG is a place for hospitalists who share an interest in IHT to connect and discuss best practices and common challenges related to IHTs. The IHT SIG also encourages collaborate innovation among different institutions to improve the safety, efficiency, and experience of IHTs.
This community will serve to discuss IMG challenges in practice and elevate practical solutions for IMGs to achieve better IMG hospitalist wellness and career advancement. Together, we will make Hospital Medicine a diverse and inclusive group. You do not need to be an IMG to learn more about IMGs in Hospital Medicine!
Explore the role of med-peds physicians in hospital medicine.
Network with physicians and administrative leaders responsible for managing multiple hospitalist practice sites within the same health system.
Join a network of night medicine care providers to share experiences and address obstacles unique to working overnight, including but not limited to best practices, teaching, career development, and wellness.
Share collaborative opportunities, best practices, resources, and education to support the professional growth of NPs and PAs.
Join a network of oncology-focused hospitalists. Engage in discussions of clinical care, inpatient practice structures, ethical dilemmas, and other challenges specific to the inpatient care of oncology patients. This community will be a place to exchange ideas, innovate, and share information that can help advance patient care and hospitalist practice.
Network with hospitalists providing palliative care to share experiences, challenges, and training opportunities.
Join a group of hospitalists focused on co-designing patient-centered culture resources. Improve and demonstrate patient-centered service behaviors and communication skills. Develop, implement, and assess the success of strategies to improve the patient experience and care.
The pediatric hospitalist’s home for networking and collaboration.
Learn about guidelines updates and recent literature while communicating controversial or difficult patient management issues around perioperative medicine.
Network, discuss challenges, and learn about work flow systems with members who serve as physician advisors within their institutions.
Collaborate with other hospitalists who are learning, practicing or teaching this new skill of point of care ultrasound.
Share resources and collaborate with others focused on quality improvement and patient safety programs.
Join the Research Special Interest Group, a vibrant community of hospitalists from diverse professional backgrounds—including physicians, advanced practice providers, PhDs, and learners—who are passionate about advancing research within our dynamic field. Together, we aim to strengthen the impact of research in the field of hospital medicine, foster greater inclusivity, and enhance professional development for hospitalists across all career stages. This group provides a collaborative platform for networking and sharing innovative ideas within our field.
Network with colleagues to find solutions to challenges in unique practice environments in underserved locations.
This group aims to both increase awareness about and improve the quality of care provided to hospitalized patients with substance use disorders.
Connect with VA hospitalists and collaborate on opportunities, best practices, and supporting providers’ professional growth in this scope of medicine.