SHM is dedicated to improving care for hospitalized patients through innovation and collaboration and is committed to supporting all hospitalists in achieving this goal. There are many reasons to ...

Women hospitalists have seen advances in the care of female patients, but also in their careers within hospital medicine.

As a Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation ambassador, Dr. Williams advocates fiercely for the healthcare workforce’s well-being and champions national policy efforts, including the reauthorization of the ...

Integrating simulation into education, clinical care, and career advancement ...

Thus, when patients with unmet medical or personal needs continue to require hospitalization, the system will ultimately allow for exposure to fresh eyes, additional opinions, and differing skill sets ...

Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine ...

This SHM Converge 2025 session focused on the adult inpatient management of heart failure (HF), with an emphasis on diuretic strategies and guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for both HF with ...

Between 2012 and 2019, the field of hospital medicine experienced rapid growth, expanding by 50%. 1 From 2019 to 2021 alone, there was an additional 10% increase, signaling continued growth over the ...

Now in its 13th year, Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) continues to incentivize hospitals to do a better job of coordinating the care of patients they are discharging to ...

Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total ...

The beginning of a new year is often a time of reflection and introspection as people make plans for the coming year and for their futures. Last month we enjoyed hearing from seasoned hospitalists, ...

Foreign medical graduates (FMGs), or international medical graduates (IMGs) represent an important section of the U.S. healthcare workforce. An IMG is a physician who received a basic medical degree ...