The Society of Hospital Medicine and Wiley are happy to announce that The Hospitalist has received an APEX Award of Excellence this year for content published in 2024. The October 2024 issue was ...

Early in his career, Eric Howell, MD, MHM—now the chief executive officer of the Society of Hospital Medicine—was a ...

S HM Converge 2025 was another successful meeting of the minds and gave me the opportunity to learn and network. This year ...

During his adolescence in conservative Virginia, Ian Jenkins felt isolated and alone as he began getting in touch with his gay identity. He didn’t know any gay people, and they weren’t portrayed on ...

Among their many responsibilities, hospitalists typically rank patient care as their number one priority and the education of medical students, residents, and fellows as a critical number two. As ...

How do other institutions reduce avoidable readmissions?Venkat Gundareddy, MBBS, MPH, FACP, SFHM, associate director in the division of hospital medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in ...

How has the inflation reduction act affected prescription drug costs ...

How do U.S. hospitalists find their way into international hospital medicine and global health care—and what have they learned on the journey? Several hospitalist leaders in global health care ...

Key Points The utility of checking a serum ammonia level in hepatic disease has been debated, and current data suggests it is not necessary for the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy as ammonia ...

Defining life-sustaining preferences Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST) is a single-page medical order form, typically printed on bright pink paper, and signed by a physician, ...

Historically, many mentorship relationships occurred outside of organized programs, where the relationship developed intentionally or organically out of personal connections. To maximize the benefit ...

With hospital medicine a newer specialty, mentorship has an extra special role, say several hospitalist leaders who have spent much of their careers serving as mentors for others. Mentoring helps ...