I was assigned to Medicine Team 6 (MT6)—our residency program’s only inpatient family medicine service. It’s not just another ...

Continuity in Discontinuity There’s an irony to being a hospitalist in oncology. Our patients often have complex, ...

Drs. Poonacha and Chamoun outline why it's advantageous for hospitalists to be involved in hospital contract negotiations.

Article Finding My Path in Inpatient Medicine: A Family Medicine Resident’s Reflection June 25, 2025. My name is Mehran, and I’m currently transitioning into my second year as a family medicine ...

Physician advisors and hospitalists bring indispensable value to contract negotiations between hospital systems and payers. Traditionally, contracting has been managed primarily by finance and ...

The Hospitalist is the monthly news magazine of the Society of Hospital Medicine, reporting on issues and trends in hospital medicine relevant to hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse ...

As previously mentioned, clinicians may subtract 3 to 8 mm Hg from the pVBG pCO 2 value to estimate the ABG pCO 2. 3 However, data supporting this mathematical correction are weak. Comparisons of ...

Case Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...

New years typically start with goals and preparations for things to come. We caught up with several SHM chapter leaders and asked about their chapters’ goals, what they’re looking forward to ...

For Meredith R. Hickson, MD, MSc, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Michigan State University and partner in the pediatric hospital medicine group at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, both ...

Drs. Russo and Boer began by outlining the differences between high-performing and dysfunctional teams. High-performing teams are not afraid of face-to-face communication, authentically give and ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine inducted three new Masters in Hospital Medicine (MHM) at SHM Converge 2024 in San Diego. This is considered the Society’s highest professional honor. The three ...