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Brendon Shank joined the Society of Hospital Medicine in February 2011 and serves as Associate Vice President of Communications. He is responsible for maintaining a dialogue between SHM and its many audiences, including members, media and others in healthcare.
2016: Celebrating 20 Years of Hospital Medicine and Looking Toward a Bright Future
For hospitalists who were practicing medicine in 1996, it may seem like just a few years ago; however, that was when the term “hospitalist” was first used by Bob Wachter, MD, MHM, and Lee Goldman, MD, in a New England Journal of Medicine article. And for those who started their hospitalist careers since then, it may be inconceivable that there was a time before hospitalists were widely known.
In either case, 20 years later, the term has stuck and now identifies more than 44,000 hospitalists nationwide.
SHM will be commemorating the specialty’s milestone all year, referring to 2016 as the “Year of the Hospitalist.”
In addition to yearlong recognition of hospitalists, SHM will celebrate the Year of the Hospitalist in front of thousands at a plenary session at HM16 in San Diego. There, SHM co-founders John Nelson, MD, MHM, and Win Whitcomb, MD, MHM, will offer their own perspective on the specialty after just 20 years—and what’s to come.
“When Win Whitcomb and I began talking about forming a medical society, we wanted to make sure it would serve as a forum for exchange of ideas about the most effective ways to approach our work,” Dr. Nelson recalls. “It is really gratifying to see all the ways SHM has done that and to think about how it will be increasingly important for all in hospital medicine to have a way to stay connected given the ever-increasing pace of change in hospital care and healthcare generally.”
Dr. Whitcomb shares Dr. Nelson’s awe at the growth and influence of the specialty in a relatively short amount of time.
“A lot has changed in 20 years. Back then, we were surprised to observe that hospitalists, yet unnamed, could reliably decrease cost and length of stay,” Dr. Whitcomb says. “Then, in 1999, hospital medicine was transformed as patient safety emerged as a bona fide discipline.”
However, the transitions are not over for hospitalists, he says.
“As we see healthcare in the midst of a generational transition to alternative payment models like ACOs and bundled payment, hospitalists will once again reinvent themselves, this time to influence care over not just the inpatient stay but also patients’ transition out of the hospital and back into the primary care system,” Dr. Whitcomb says. TH
Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.
For hospitalists who were practicing medicine in 1996, it may seem like just a few years ago; however, that was when the term “hospitalist” was first used by Bob Wachter, MD, MHM, and Lee Goldman, MD, in a New England Journal of Medicine article. And for those who started their hospitalist careers since then, it may be inconceivable that there was a time before hospitalists were widely known.
In either case, 20 years later, the term has stuck and now identifies more than 44,000 hospitalists nationwide.
SHM will be commemorating the specialty’s milestone all year, referring to 2016 as the “Year of the Hospitalist.”
In addition to yearlong recognition of hospitalists, SHM will celebrate the Year of the Hospitalist in front of thousands at a plenary session at HM16 in San Diego. There, SHM co-founders John Nelson, MD, MHM, and Win Whitcomb, MD, MHM, will offer their own perspective on the specialty after just 20 years—and what’s to come.
“When Win Whitcomb and I began talking about forming a medical society, we wanted to make sure it would serve as a forum for exchange of ideas about the most effective ways to approach our work,” Dr. Nelson recalls. “It is really gratifying to see all the ways SHM has done that and to think about how it will be increasingly important for all in hospital medicine to have a way to stay connected given the ever-increasing pace of change in hospital care and healthcare generally.”
Dr. Whitcomb shares Dr. Nelson’s awe at the growth and influence of the specialty in a relatively short amount of time.
“A lot has changed in 20 years. Back then, we were surprised to observe that hospitalists, yet unnamed, could reliably decrease cost and length of stay,” Dr. Whitcomb says. “Then, in 1999, hospital medicine was transformed as patient safety emerged as a bona fide discipline.”
However, the transitions are not over for hospitalists, he says.
“As we see healthcare in the midst of a generational transition to alternative payment models like ACOs and bundled payment, hospitalists will once again reinvent themselves, this time to influence care over not just the inpatient stay but also patients’ transition out of the hospital and back into the primary care system,” Dr. Whitcomb says. TH
Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.
For hospitalists who were practicing medicine in 1996, it may seem like just a few years ago; however, that was when the term “hospitalist” was first used by Bob Wachter, MD, MHM, and Lee Goldman, MD, in a New England Journal of Medicine article. And for those who started their hospitalist careers since then, it may be inconceivable that there was a time before hospitalists were widely known.
In either case, 20 years later, the term has stuck and now identifies more than 44,000 hospitalists nationwide.
SHM will be commemorating the specialty’s milestone all year, referring to 2016 as the “Year of the Hospitalist.”
In addition to yearlong recognition of hospitalists, SHM will celebrate the Year of the Hospitalist in front of thousands at a plenary session at HM16 in San Diego. There, SHM co-founders John Nelson, MD, MHM, and Win Whitcomb, MD, MHM, will offer their own perspective on the specialty after just 20 years—and what’s to come.
“When Win Whitcomb and I began talking about forming a medical society, we wanted to make sure it would serve as a forum for exchange of ideas about the most effective ways to approach our work,” Dr. Nelson recalls. “It is really gratifying to see all the ways SHM has done that and to think about how it will be increasingly important for all in hospital medicine to have a way to stay connected given the ever-increasing pace of change in hospital care and healthcare generally.”
Dr. Whitcomb shares Dr. Nelson’s awe at the growth and influence of the specialty in a relatively short amount of time.
“A lot has changed in 20 years. Back then, we were surprised to observe that hospitalists, yet unnamed, could reliably decrease cost and length of stay,” Dr. Whitcomb says. “Then, in 1999, hospital medicine was transformed as patient safety emerged as a bona fide discipline.”
However, the transitions are not over for hospitalists, he says.
“As we see healthcare in the midst of a generational transition to alternative payment models like ACOs and bundled payment, hospitalists will once again reinvent themselves, this time to influence care over not just the inpatient stay but also patients’ transition out of the hospital and back into the primary care system,” Dr. Whitcomb says. TH
Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.
Start Planning for Hospital Medicine 2016
At the end of the year, many hospitalists still have funds left in their CME stipends. Now is the time to plan for 2016.
SHM’s annual meeting, Hospital Medicine 2016 (HM16), is the premier destination for hospitalists looking to brush up on skills, learn the latest clinical and management concepts, and grow their network in a growing field. Last year, more than one in 10 meeting attendees said they would recommend SHM’s annual meeting to a colleague.
The meeting is divided into two sections: a day of in-depth pre-courses and the official program. This year’s pre-courses include:
- ABIM Maintenance of Certification and board preparation;
- Bedside procedures;
- Point-of-care ultrasound for the hospitalist;
- Perioperative Medicine: Spy into the world of perioperative medicine;
- The Highly Effective Hospital Medicine Group: Using SHM’s key characteristics to drive performance; and
- Advanced interactive critical care.
The official meeting’s content is broken up into separate tracks, making it easier for hospitalists to schedule their sessions based on their roles and interests in the hospital medicine movement. HM16 tracks feature many favorites, with updated content and three entirely new tracks.
- Academic/Research: This combined track is for hospitalists who practice in academic medical centers, as well as for those in any setting who are interested in research.
- Clinical: The clinical track focuses on essential topics in adult clinical medicine, emphasizing recent advances that should be incorporated into the hospitalist’s approach to clinical care delivery.
- NEW! Co-Management/Perioperative Medicine: This hospitalist core competency increases in complexity, yet many physicians were not even taught the basics in residency. This new track explores the perioperative and consultative medicine questions that challenge hospitalists on a daily basis.
- Doctor-Patient Relationship: As service is a quality outcome, this track is dedicated to giving frontline hospitalists practical skills for success in enhancing the doctor-patient relationship and information on what to do when the therapeutic relationship fails.
- NEW! Health IT for Hospitalists: Health information technology has changed the practice of medicine. While the potential is great, the result is often inefficiency and frustration, coupled with a lack of improvement in quality and safety. All hospitalists need to properly utilize the available technology and engage in improving these systems.
- Pediatric: The 2016 pediatric track focuses on “The Edges of the Practice” and will highlight hot topics and issues for pediatric hospitalists who take care of newborns and/or adolescents.
- NEW! Post-Acute Care: The post-acute care track targets two audiences. The first—mainstream hospitalists—are increasingly being asked to assume responsibility for the full episode of care, including the post-acute care services after discharge.
- Potpourri: The potpourri track offers presentations on a variety of nonclinical topics of interest to the practicing hospitalist. Topics include medical-legal aspects of hospital medicine, best practices and strategies to improve sleep in the hospital, and personal professional optimization.
- Practice Management: The importance of organizational infrastructure related to the practice of hospital medicine is well recognized, and information in this area continues to accumulate.
- Quality: Given the importance of quality and patient safety in the delivery of healthcare, the quality track is offered to address the imperatives around development and implementation of improvement efforts in the hospital.
- Rapid Fire: The rapid fire track is designed to provide participants with “rapid bursts” of content and to address specific questions framed by the Annual Meeting Committee.
- Workshops: Workshop track topics were submitted by SHM members, peer reviewed, and selected based on their relevancy to hospitalists, designed engagement and interaction with participants, presenter experience, and clarity of submission.
- Young Hospitalists: Inspired by SHM Past President Eric Howell’s vision to increase the hospital medicine “pipeline,” this track is dedicated to new hospitalists, residents, and medical students—the future of SHM.
For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine2016.org.
Call for HM16 RIV Abstracts
Seize the opportunity to present your research, innovative ideas, and clinical stories to a national audience at HM16.
Visit the submission site for full details. To ensure success, SHM strongly recommends that you complete your submission well ahead of the deadline of Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2015, at 11:30 p.m. EST.
For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine2016.org.
At the end of the year, many hospitalists still have funds left in their CME stipends. Now is the time to plan for 2016.
SHM’s annual meeting, Hospital Medicine 2016 (HM16), is the premier destination for hospitalists looking to brush up on skills, learn the latest clinical and management concepts, and grow their network in a growing field. Last year, more than one in 10 meeting attendees said they would recommend SHM’s annual meeting to a colleague.
The meeting is divided into two sections: a day of in-depth pre-courses and the official program. This year’s pre-courses include:
- ABIM Maintenance of Certification and board preparation;
- Bedside procedures;
- Point-of-care ultrasound for the hospitalist;
- Perioperative Medicine: Spy into the world of perioperative medicine;
- The Highly Effective Hospital Medicine Group: Using SHM’s key characteristics to drive performance; and
- Advanced interactive critical care.
The official meeting’s content is broken up into separate tracks, making it easier for hospitalists to schedule their sessions based on their roles and interests in the hospital medicine movement. HM16 tracks feature many favorites, with updated content and three entirely new tracks.
- Academic/Research: This combined track is for hospitalists who practice in academic medical centers, as well as for those in any setting who are interested in research.
- Clinical: The clinical track focuses on essential topics in adult clinical medicine, emphasizing recent advances that should be incorporated into the hospitalist’s approach to clinical care delivery.
- NEW! Co-Management/Perioperative Medicine: This hospitalist core competency increases in complexity, yet many physicians were not even taught the basics in residency. This new track explores the perioperative and consultative medicine questions that challenge hospitalists on a daily basis.
- Doctor-Patient Relationship: As service is a quality outcome, this track is dedicated to giving frontline hospitalists practical skills for success in enhancing the doctor-patient relationship and information on what to do when the therapeutic relationship fails.
- NEW! Health IT for Hospitalists: Health information technology has changed the practice of medicine. While the potential is great, the result is often inefficiency and frustration, coupled with a lack of improvement in quality and safety. All hospitalists need to properly utilize the available technology and engage in improving these systems.
- Pediatric: The 2016 pediatric track focuses on “The Edges of the Practice” and will highlight hot topics and issues for pediatric hospitalists who take care of newborns and/or adolescents.
- NEW! Post-Acute Care: The post-acute care track targets two audiences. The first—mainstream hospitalists—are increasingly being asked to assume responsibility for the full episode of care, including the post-acute care services after discharge.
- Potpourri: The potpourri track offers presentations on a variety of nonclinical topics of interest to the practicing hospitalist. Topics include medical-legal aspects of hospital medicine, best practices and strategies to improve sleep in the hospital, and personal professional optimization.
- Practice Management: The importance of organizational infrastructure related to the practice of hospital medicine is well recognized, and information in this area continues to accumulate.
- Quality: Given the importance of quality and patient safety in the delivery of healthcare, the quality track is offered to address the imperatives around development and implementation of improvement efforts in the hospital.
- Rapid Fire: The rapid fire track is designed to provide participants with “rapid bursts” of content and to address specific questions framed by the Annual Meeting Committee.
- Workshops: Workshop track topics were submitted by SHM members, peer reviewed, and selected based on their relevancy to hospitalists, designed engagement and interaction with participants, presenter experience, and clarity of submission.
- Young Hospitalists: Inspired by SHM Past President Eric Howell’s vision to increase the hospital medicine “pipeline,” this track is dedicated to new hospitalists, residents, and medical students—the future of SHM.
For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine2016.org.
Call for HM16 RIV Abstracts
Seize the opportunity to present your research, innovative ideas, and clinical stories to a national audience at HM16.
Visit the submission site for full details. To ensure success, SHM strongly recommends that you complete your submission well ahead of the deadline of Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2015, at 11:30 p.m. EST.
For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine2016.org.
At the end of the year, many hospitalists still have funds left in their CME stipends. Now is the time to plan for 2016.
SHM’s annual meeting, Hospital Medicine 2016 (HM16), is the premier destination for hospitalists looking to brush up on skills, learn the latest clinical and management concepts, and grow their network in a growing field. Last year, more than one in 10 meeting attendees said they would recommend SHM’s annual meeting to a colleague.
The meeting is divided into two sections: a day of in-depth pre-courses and the official program. This year’s pre-courses include:
- ABIM Maintenance of Certification and board preparation;
- Bedside procedures;
- Point-of-care ultrasound for the hospitalist;
- Perioperative Medicine: Spy into the world of perioperative medicine;
- The Highly Effective Hospital Medicine Group: Using SHM’s key characteristics to drive performance; and
- Advanced interactive critical care.
The official meeting’s content is broken up into separate tracks, making it easier for hospitalists to schedule their sessions based on their roles and interests in the hospital medicine movement. HM16 tracks feature many favorites, with updated content and three entirely new tracks.
- Academic/Research: This combined track is for hospitalists who practice in academic medical centers, as well as for those in any setting who are interested in research.
- Clinical: The clinical track focuses on essential topics in adult clinical medicine, emphasizing recent advances that should be incorporated into the hospitalist’s approach to clinical care delivery.
- NEW! Co-Management/Perioperative Medicine: This hospitalist core competency increases in complexity, yet many physicians were not even taught the basics in residency. This new track explores the perioperative and consultative medicine questions that challenge hospitalists on a daily basis.
- Doctor-Patient Relationship: As service is a quality outcome, this track is dedicated to giving frontline hospitalists practical skills for success in enhancing the doctor-patient relationship and information on what to do when the therapeutic relationship fails.
- NEW! Health IT for Hospitalists: Health information technology has changed the practice of medicine. While the potential is great, the result is often inefficiency and frustration, coupled with a lack of improvement in quality and safety. All hospitalists need to properly utilize the available technology and engage in improving these systems.
- Pediatric: The 2016 pediatric track focuses on “The Edges of the Practice” and will highlight hot topics and issues for pediatric hospitalists who take care of newborns and/or adolescents.
- NEW! Post-Acute Care: The post-acute care track targets two audiences. The first—mainstream hospitalists—are increasingly being asked to assume responsibility for the full episode of care, including the post-acute care services after discharge.
- Potpourri: The potpourri track offers presentations on a variety of nonclinical topics of interest to the practicing hospitalist. Topics include medical-legal aspects of hospital medicine, best practices and strategies to improve sleep in the hospital, and personal professional optimization.
- Practice Management: The importance of organizational infrastructure related to the practice of hospital medicine is well recognized, and information in this area continues to accumulate.
- Quality: Given the importance of quality and patient safety in the delivery of healthcare, the quality track is offered to address the imperatives around development and implementation of improvement efforts in the hospital.
- Rapid Fire: The rapid fire track is designed to provide participants with “rapid bursts” of content and to address specific questions framed by the Annual Meeting Committee.
- Workshops: Workshop track topics were submitted by SHM members, peer reviewed, and selected based on their relevancy to hospitalists, designed engagement and interaction with participants, presenter experience, and clarity of submission.
- Young Hospitalists: Inspired by SHM Past President Eric Howell’s vision to increase the hospital medicine “pipeline,” this track is dedicated to new hospitalists, residents, and medical students—the future of SHM.
For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine2016.org.
Call for HM16 RIV Abstracts
Seize the opportunity to present your research, innovative ideas, and clinical stories to a national audience at HM16.
Visit the submission site for full details. To ensure success, SHM strongly recommends that you complete your submission well ahead of the deadline of Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2015, at 11:30 p.m. EST.
For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine2016.org.
Society of Hospital Medicine Opens Enrollment for Practice Administrators' Mentor Program
SHM’s Practice Administrators Committee piloted a mentor/mentee program in January 2014 as a way to assist those who were new to practice administration and/or to hospital medicine. SHM is continuing with the program and is now accepting enrollment for the fall of 2015.
The committee first learned of the interest among practice administrators in a mentorship program by monitoring communications within the Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) online community. The pilot program was developed in response to this significant interest.
Committee members volunteered to be mentors in the program’s first year, in an effort to provide a structured opportunity for hospitalist administrators seeking to strengthen their knowledge and skills. Today, the program consists of two models:
- Mentors/Mentees: Less experienced administrators will be paired with seasoned professionals to gain more experience and/or exposure.
- Buddy System: Administrators at any level of expertise or experience will be paired with a peer so that they can learn from one another.
How Does the Program Work?
Both mentors and mentees complete an online profile, which is used by the committee to match up appropriate individuals based on type of institution and skills that need to be improved. Once the matches are completed, mentors and mentees will be asked to attend an online webinar in order to understand the expectations for the mentor and the mentee, including the length of the commitment and the expected frequency of contact with each other.
A survey will be circulated to follow up with the mentors and mentees. Information gleaned from the survey will ensure that the mentor-mentee relationship is intact and will offer an opportunity to provide feedback on the program’s performance.
Tiffani Panek is manager of the division of hospital medicine and program director of the academic hospital medicine training program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. She is a member of SHM’s Practice Administrators Committee.
SHM’s Practice Administrators Committee piloted a mentor/mentee program in January 2014 as a way to assist those who were new to practice administration and/or to hospital medicine. SHM is continuing with the program and is now accepting enrollment for the fall of 2015.
The committee first learned of the interest among practice administrators in a mentorship program by monitoring communications within the Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) online community. The pilot program was developed in response to this significant interest.
Committee members volunteered to be mentors in the program’s first year, in an effort to provide a structured opportunity for hospitalist administrators seeking to strengthen their knowledge and skills. Today, the program consists of two models:
- Mentors/Mentees: Less experienced administrators will be paired with seasoned professionals to gain more experience and/or exposure.
- Buddy System: Administrators at any level of expertise or experience will be paired with a peer so that they can learn from one another.
How Does the Program Work?
Both mentors and mentees complete an online profile, which is used by the committee to match up appropriate individuals based on type of institution and skills that need to be improved. Once the matches are completed, mentors and mentees will be asked to attend an online webinar in order to understand the expectations for the mentor and the mentee, including the length of the commitment and the expected frequency of contact with each other.
A survey will be circulated to follow up with the mentors and mentees. Information gleaned from the survey will ensure that the mentor-mentee relationship is intact and will offer an opportunity to provide feedback on the program’s performance.
Tiffani Panek is manager of the division of hospital medicine and program director of the academic hospital medicine training program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. She is a member of SHM’s Practice Administrators Committee.
SHM’s Practice Administrators Committee piloted a mentor/mentee program in January 2014 as a way to assist those who were new to practice administration and/or to hospital medicine. SHM is continuing with the program and is now accepting enrollment for the fall of 2015.
The committee first learned of the interest among practice administrators in a mentorship program by monitoring communications within the Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) online community. The pilot program was developed in response to this significant interest.
Committee members volunteered to be mentors in the program’s first year, in an effort to provide a structured opportunity for hospitalist administrators seeking to strengthen their knowledge and skills. Today, the program consists of two models:
- Mentors/Mentees: Less experienced administrators will be paired with seasoned professionals to gain more experience and/or exposure.
- Buddy System: Administrators at any level of expertise or experience will be paired with a peer so that they can learn from one another.
How Does the Program Work?
Both mentors and mentees complete an online profile, which is used by the committee to match up appropriate individuals based on type of institution and skills that need to be improved. Once the matches are completed, mentors and mentees will be asked to attend an online webinar in order to understand the expectations for the mentor and the mentee, including the length of the commitment and the expected frequency of contact with each other.
A survey will be circulated to follow up with the mentors and mentees. Information gleaned from the survey will ensure that the mentor-mentee relationship is intact and will offer an opportunity to provide feedback on the program’s performance.
Tiffani Panek is manager of the division of hospital medicine and program director of the academic hospital medicine training program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. She is a member of SHM’s Practice Administrators Committee.
Hospitalists Can Earn CME Credits for Acute Coronary Syndrome Performance Improvement
Approximately 1.7 million patients are hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and 600,000 die of an acute myocardial infarction. Although ACS is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, a broad range of clinical strategies can affect outcomes if implemented effectively. In addition, quality improvement (QI) strategies implemented around ACS can improve performance on quality measures.
The ACS PI-CME is a self-directed, web-based activity designed to help you evaluate your practice. Participation is free. Upon completion of the activity, participants will receive 20 CME credits.
The educational interventions will be pragmatic and address the challenges faced by clinicians responsible for managing patient care. They include:
- Etiology and diagnosis of ACS: educating the team on the pathophysiology of atherosclerotic plaque;
- Inpatient treatment of ACS; and
- Transitions of care for ACS patients.
Act today, because spaces are limited for this program. For more information, visit the QI section of SHM’s website.
Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.ences (CHS) 13-105 10833 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.
Approximately 1.7 million patients are hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and 600,000 die of an acute myocardial infarction. Although ACS is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, a broad range of clinical strategies can affect outcomes if implemented effectively. In addition, quality improvement (QI) strategies implemented around ACS can improve performance on quality measures.
The ACS PI-CME is a self-directed, web-based activity designed to help you evaluate your practice. Participation is free. Upon completion of the activity, participants will receive 20 CME credits.
The educational interventions will be pragmatic and address the challenges faced by clinicians responsible for managing patient care. They include:
- Etiology and diagnosis of ACS: educating the team on the pathophysiology of atherosclerotic plaque;
- Inpatient treatment of ACS; and
- Transitions of care for ACS patients.
Act today, because spaces are limited for this program. For more information, visit the QI section of SHM’s website.
Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.ences (CHS) 13-105 10833 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.
Approximately 1.7 million patients are hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and 600,000 die of an acute myocardial infarction. Although ACS is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, a broad range of clinical strategies can affect outcomes if implemented effectively. In addition, quality improvement (QI) strategies implemented around ACS can improve performance on quality measures.
The ACS PI-CME is a self-directed, web-based activity designed to help you evaluate your practice. Participation is free. Upon completion of the activity, participants will receive 20 CME credits.
The educational interventions will be pragmatic and address the challenges faced by clinicians responsible for managing patient care. They include:
- Etiology and diagnosis of ACS: educating the team on the pathophysiology of atherosclerotic plaque;
- Inpatient treatment of ACS; and
- Transitions of care for ACS patients.
Act today, because spaces are limited for this program. For more information, visit the QI section of SHM’s website.
Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.ences (CHS) 13-105 10833 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.
Hospitalists Get Prep Tool for ABIM’s Hospital Medicine MOC Exam
Now, SHM is introducing hospital medicine’s first preparation tool for the exam.
For the hundreds of hospitalists considering taking the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine Maintenance of Certification exam in the near future, SHM’s SPARK exam prep tool is the perfect way to brush up on the skills and knowledge needed to pass.
SHM SPARK gives hospitalists the peace of mind that comes from knowing they are ready for the topics unique to hospitalists in the exam, including:
- Palliative care, medical ethics, and decision making;
- Peri-operative care and consultative comanagement; and
- Quality, safety, and clinical reasoning.
Best of all, SPARK is available exclusively online, making it easy to access from the hospital, the home, the coffee shop, or on the go.
SHM SPARK is a unique online self-assessment tool featuring 175 vignette-style, single-best-answer, multiple-choice questions, complete with answers, discussion, reasoning, references, and quizzing capabilities.
In addition to educating hospitalists with nearly 200 questions online, SHM SPARK empowers users to:
- Create customized practice quizzes in topic areas that meet your specific knowledge gaps/study needs;
- Progress at your own pace using the self-study reference feature; and
- Claim MOC Part II medical knowledge points through ABIM and download a CME certificate for earned AMA Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 Credit™.
The tool includes:
- Robust teaching points for each vignette;
- The option to save key questions for later review; and
- Question-level comparisons to the average response.
Access to SHM Spark is $199 for SHM members and $349 for nonmembers. Groups of 10 or more hospitalists receive a 10% discount.
Now, SHM is introducing hospital medicine’s first preparation tool for the exam.
For the hundreds of hospitalists considering taking the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine Maintenance of Certification exam in the near future, SHM’s SPARK exam prep tool is the perfect way to brush up on the skills and knowledge needed to pass.
SHM SPARK gives hospitalists the peace of mind that comes from knowing they are ready for the topics unique to hospitalists in the exam, including:
- Palliative care, medical ethics, and decision making;
- Peri-operative care and consultative comanagement; and
- Quality, safety, and clinical reasoning.
Best of all, SPARK is available exclusively online, making it easy to access from the hospital, the home, the coffee shop, or on the go.
SHM SPARK is a unique online self-assessment tool featuring 175 vignette-style, single-best-answer, multiple-choice questions, complete with answers, discussion, reasoning, references, and quizzing capabilities.
In addition to educating hospitalists with nearly 200 questions online, SHM SPARK empowers users to:
- Create customized practice quizzes in topic areas that meet your specific knowledge gaps/study needs;
- Progress at your own pace using the self-study reference feature; and
- Claim MOC Part II medical knowledge points through ABIM and download a CME certificate for earned AMA Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 Credit™.
The tool includes:
- Robust teaching points for each vignette;
- The option to save key questions for later review; and
- Question-level comparisons to the average response.
Access to SHM Spark is $199 for SHM members and $349 for nonmembers. Groups of 10 or more hospitalists receive a 10% discount.
Now, SHM is introducing hospital medicine’s first preparation tool for the exam.
For the hundreds of hospitalists considering taking the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine Maintenance of Certification exam in the near future, SHM’s SPARK exam prep tool is the perfect way to brush up on the skills and knowledge needed to pass.
SHM SPARK gives hospitalists the peace of mind that comes from knowing they are ready for the topics unique to hospitalists in the exam, including:
- Palliative care, medical ethics, and decision making;
- Peri-operative care and consultative comanagement; and
- Quality, safety, and clinical reasoning.
Best of all, SPARK is available exclusively online, making it easy to access from the hospital, the home, the coffee shop, or on the go.
SHM SPARK is a unique online self-assessment tool featuring 175 vignette-style, single-best-answer, multiple-choice questions, complete with answers, discussion, reasoning, references, and quizzing capabilities.
In addition to educating hospitalists with nearly 200 questions online, SHM SPARK empowers users to:
- Create customized practice quizzes in topic areas that meet your specific knowledge gaps/study needs;
- Progress at your own pace using the self-study reference feature; and
- Claim MOC Part II medical knowledge points through ABIM and download a CME certificate for earned AMA Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 Credit™.
The tool includes:
- Robust teaching points for each vignette;
- The option to save key questions for later review; and
- Question-level comparisons to the average response.
Access to SHM Spark is $199 for SHM members and $349 for nonmembers. Groups of 10 or more hospitalists receive a 10% discount.
Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant Winners Blog About Patient Safety
The following are excerpts of those posts.
Why We Should Care about Alarm Fatigue
When I arrived back at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) after my first year of medical school, I knew what was awaiting me: thousands of alarms from physiologic monitors, most of them inconsequential, lined up neatly in spreadsheets, splattered all over research databases, lighting up on video screens, chirping down hallways and up elevators. Of course, they were incessantly firing at the bedside, but when patient care is video recorded for Dr. Bonafide’s research study on alarm fatigue, those patient care hours turn into data points that live on hard drives and servers waiting to be classified, annotated, and cataloged by a team of research assistants, including me.
I began working at the CHOP while attending the University of Pennsylvania’s post-baccalaureate premed program. What started as a temporary summer research position turned into an almost three-year endeavor. The pilot that I helped design uses video cameras in hospitalized patient rooms to record patient care. We download the video, edit it so we can review multiple viewing angles at one time, download a spreadsheet of all of the alarms that fired during the study period, and then, with a little patience and some subtraction, we can line up every alarm that fired with the video clip. That’s the easy part.
This small pilot has transformed into a much larger study with a much larger volume of alarms. Since I started medical school last July, the research team has steadily collected video data all year. With support from SHM’s student scholar grant program, I have been able to return to CHOP for the summer. And now the video review begins.
The First Two Years—Pathways and Patient Outcomes
The first two years of our medical curriculum are an introduction to the human body’s normal and pathophysiology and an attempt to untangle the complex pathways involved in the interactions between self and nonself. We hope to make connections between our physical exam findings and the physiologic pathways we have at our educational foundation. We begin to realize that there is a fine line to walk when treating a patient: Altering the inputs of a single system can drastically affect the outputs of another.
If we place patient outcomes in the context of the dance that occurs in clinical care for patients on the wards, similar to the downstream effects of disrupting biological pathways in illness, there is a multifactorial system underlying hospitalized patient outcomes.
Prior to medical school, I worked for several years as a population health epidemiologist in the Democratic Republic of Congo and then as a research data analyst at the University of Chicago. During my work in both of these settings, I quickly learned the relevance of contextual clues in complex systems-based problem solving. Over the course of my first year of medical school, I realized that nowhere is this creative use of information more important than in the inpatient setting, where we attempt to distill out the most important available information when assessing a patient.
But there are caveats to our interpretations of data points: Are we recognizing the most relevant physiologic associations when making clinical decisions? Are patient data really telling us what we think they are? What systemic factors are at play when patients experience an adverse outcome?
In my exploration of the importance of contextualizing inpatient data, I have been incredibly fortunate to work with Dana Edelson, MD, MS, and Matthew Churpek, MD, PhD, MPH, two mentors at the University of Chicago who are equally passionate about asking these same questions surrounding clinical care. Using ward patient data, we have investigated the importance of physician judgment in clinical deterioration and documented the need for greater sensitivity in recognition of sepsis and organ dysfunction in ward patients. But what can be done to reorient clinicians who are overwhelmed by and desensitized to data streams and bedside alarms?
Improving Patient Care as a Trainee
Patient safety has always been a priority for me, but it is only recently that I became aware of the many issues that threaten quality of care for patients. As a medical student, I vividly remember shadowing at the hospital and being shocked at what I saw. I walked through patient rooms and noticed loud beeps, the constant chatter of hospital staff, and the automatic entrance into patients’ rooms without even a knock. I wondered whether all of the disruptions and commotion impacted patient recovery in the hospital and after discharge. After pondering this, I decided that I wanted to take action and see what I, as a medical student, could do to improve daily inpatient conditions.
In order to begin addressing my vision, I knew I needed to find the right mentor in the right location. As a medical student, I feel like my life is on pause at times. During the school year, when exams come in constant waves and my days are spent with my head in notes and books, I am pausing my time with friends and family, using my energy to pursue my dream of helping others improve their health. While I am blessed to have such an opportunity, I knew that during my time off between my first and second year of medical school, I wanted to be in Chicago, near my close friends. And, from there, it seemed as if everything fell into place perfectly. I found on the University of Chicago Medical School website that Dr. Vineet Arora is a prominent Society of Hospital Medicine member who was looking for medical students to conduct research on sleep/functional recovery during hospital stay and post-discharge. The minute I spoke to Dr. Arora, I knew that she would be a great mentor. Not only are her credentials and accomplishments unbelievable, but I could tell she is really passionate about the work she is doing. Her excitement for the project is contagious, and I started getting really excited to start!
The following are excerpts of those posts.
Why We Should Care about Alarm Fatigue
When I arrived back at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) after my first year of medical school, I knew what was awaiting me: thousands of alarms from physiologic monitors, most of them inconsequential, lined up neatly in spreadsheets, splattered all over research databases, lighting up on video screens, chirping down hallways and up elevators. Of course, they were incessantly firing at the bedside, but when patient care is video recorded for Dr. Bonafide’s research study on alarm fatigue, those patient care hours turn into data points that live on hard drives and servers waiting to be classified, annotated, and cataloged by a team of research assistants, including me.
I began working at the CHOP while attending the University of Pennsylvania’s post-baccalaureate premed program. What started as a temporary summer research position turned into an almost three-year endeavor. The pilot that I helped design uses video cameras in hospitalized patient rooms to record patient care. We download the video, edit it so we can review multiple viewing angles at one time, download a spreadsheet of all of the alarms that fired during the study period, and then, with a little patience and some subtraction, we can line up every alarm that fired with the video clip. That’s the easy part.
This small pilot has transformed into a much larger study with a much larger volume of alarms. Since I started medical school last July, the research team has steadily collected video data all year. With support from SHM’s student scholar grant program, I have been able to return to CHOP for the summer. And now the video review begins.
The First Two Years—Pathways and Patient Outcomes
The first two years of our medical curriculum are an introduction to the human body’s normal and pathophysiology and an attempt to untangle the complex pathways involved in the interactions between self and nonself. We hope to make connections between our physical exam findings and the physiologic pathways we have at our educational foundation. We begin to realize that there is a fine line to walk when treating a patient: Altering the inputs of a single system can drastically affect the outputs of another.
If we place patient outcomes in the context of the dance that occurs in clinical care for patients on the wards, similar to the downstream effects of disrupting biological pathways in illness, there is a multifactorial system underlying hospitalized patient outcomes.
Prior to medical school, I worked for several years as a population health epidemiologist in the Democratic Republic of Congo and then as a research data analyst at the University of Chicago. During my work in both of these settings, I quickly learned the relevance of contextual clues in complex systems-based problem solving. Over the course of my first year of medical school, I realized that nowhere is this creative use of information more important than in the inpatient setting, where we attempt to distill out the most important available information when assessing a patient.
But there are caveats to our interpretations of data points: Are we recognizing the most relevant physiologic associations when making clinical decisions? Are patient data really telling us what we think they are? What systemic factors are at play when patients experience an adverse outcome?
In my exploration of the importance of contextualizing inpatient data, I have been incredibly fortunate to work with Dana Edelson, MD, MS, and Matthew Churpek, MD, PhD, MPH, two mentors at the University of Chicago who are equally passionate about asking these same questions surrounding clinical care. Using ward patient data, we have investigated the importance of physician judgment in clinical deterioration and documented the need for greater sensitivity in recognition of sepsis and organ dysfunction in ward patients. But what can be done to reorient clinicians who are overwhelmed by and desensitized to data streams and bedside alarms?
Improving Patient Care as a Trainee
Patient safety has always been a priority for me, but it is only recently that I became aware of the many issues that threaten quality of care for patients. As a medical student, I vividly remember shadowing at the hospital and being shocked at what I saw. I walked through patient rooms and noticed loud beeps, the constant chatter of hospital staff, and the automatic entrance into patients’ rooms without even a knock. I wondered whether all of the disruptions and commotion impacted patient recovery in the hospital and after discharge. After pondering this, I decided that I wanted to take action and see what I, as a medical student, could do to improve daily inpatient conditions.
In order to begin addressing my vision, I knew I needed to find the right mentor in the right location. As a medical student, I feel like my life is on pause at times. During the school year, when exams come in constant waves and my days are spent with my head in notes and books, I am pausing my time with friends and family, using my energy to pursue my dream of helping others improve their health. While I am blessed to have such an opportunity, I knew that during my time off between my first and second year of medical school, I wanted to be in Chicago, near my close friends. And, from there, it seemed as if everything fell into place perfectly. I found on the University of Chicago Medical School website that Dr. Vineet Arora is a prominent Society of Hospital Medicine member who was looking for medical students to conduct research on sleep/functional recovery during hospital stay and post-discharge. The minute I spoke to Dr. Arora, I knew that she would be a great mentor. Not only are her credentials and accomplishments unbelievable, but I could tell she is really passionate about the work she is doing. Her excitement for the project is contagious, and I started getting really excited to start!
The following are excerpts of those posts.
Why We Should Care about Alarm Fatigue
When I arrived back at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) after my first year of medical school, I knew what was awaiting me: thousands of alarms from physiologic monitors, most of them inconsequential, lined up neatly in spreadsheets, splattered all over research databases, lighting up on video screens, chirping down hallways and up elevators. Of course, they were incessantly firing at the bedside, but when patient care is video recorded for Dr. Bonafide’s research study on alarm fatigue, those patient care hours turn into data points that live on hard drives and servers waiting to be classified, annotated, and cataloged by a team of research assistants, including me.
I began working at the CHOP while attending the University of Pennsylvania’s post-baccalaureate premed program. What started as a temporary summer research position turned into an almost three-year endeavor. The pilot that I helped design uses video cameras in hospitalized patient rooms to record patient care. We download the video, edit it so we can review multiple viewing angles at one time, download a spreadsheet of all of the alarms that fired during the study period, and then, with a little patience and some subtraction, we can line up every alarm that fired with the video clip. That’s the easy part.
This small pilot has transformed into a much larger study with a much larger volume of alarms. Since I started medical school last July, the research team has steadily collected video data all year. With support from SHM’s student scholar grant program, I have been able to return to CHOP for the summer. And now the video review begins.
The First Two Years—Pathways and Patient Outcomes
The first two years of our medical curriculum are an introduction to the human body’s normal and pathophysiology and an attempt to untangle the complex pathways involved in the interactions between self and nonself. We hope to make connections between our physical exam findings and the physiologic pathways we have at our educational foundation. We begin to realize that there is a fine line to walk when treating a patient: Altering the inputs of a single system can drastically affect the outputs of another.
If we place patient outcomes in the context of the dance that occurs in clinical care for patients on the wards, similar to the downstream effects of disrupting biological pathways in illness, there is a multifactorial system underlying hospitalized patient outcomes.
Prior to medical school, I worked for several years as a population health epidemiologist in the Democratic Republic of Congo and then as a research data analyst at the University of Chicago. During my work in both of these settings, I quickly learned the relevance of contextual clues in complex systems-based problem solving. Over the course of my first year of medical school, I realized that nowhere is this creative use of information more important than in the inpatient setting, where we attempt to distill out the most important available information when assessing a patient.
But there are caveats to our interpretations of data points: Are we recognizing the most relevant physiologic associations when making clinical decisions? Are patient data really telling us what we think they are? What systemic factors are at play when patients experience an adverse outcome?
In my exploration of the importance of contextualizing inpatient data, I have been incredibly fortunate to work with Dana Edelson, MD, MS, and Matthew Churpek, MD, PhD, MPH, two mentors at the University of Chicago who are equally passionate about asking these same questions surrounding clinical care. Using ward patient data, we have investigated the importance of physician judgment in clinical deterioration and documented the need for greater sensitivity in recognition of sepsis and organ dysfunction in ward patients. But what can be done to reorient clinicians who are overwhelmed by and desensitized to data streams and bedside alarms?
Improving Patient Care as a Trainee
Patient safety has always been a priority for me, but it is only recently that I became aware of the many issues that threaten quality of care for patients. As a medical student, I vividly remember shadowing at the hospital and being shocked at what I saw. I walked through patient rooms and noticed loud beeps, the constant chatter of hospital staff, and the automatic entrance into patients’ rooms without even a knock. I wondered whether all of the disruptions and commotion impacted patient recovery in the hospital and after discharge. After pondering this, I decided that I wanted to take action and see what I, as a medical student, could do to improve daily inpatient conditions.
In order to begin addressing my vision, I knew I needed to find the right mentor in the right location. As a medical student, I feel like my life is on pause at times. During the school year, when exams come in constant waves and my days are spent with my head in notes and books, I am pausing my time with friends and family, using my energy to pursue my dream of helping others improve their health. While I am blessed to have such an opportunity, I knew that during my time off between my first and second year of medical school, I wanted to be in Chicago, near my close friends. And, from there, it seemed as if everything fell into place perfectly. I found on the University of Chicago Medical School website that Dr. Vineet Arora is a prominent Society of Hospital Medicine member who was looking for medical students to conduct research on sleep/functional recovery during hospital stay and post-discharge. The minute I spoke to Dr. Arora, I knew that she would be a great mentor. Not only are her credentials and accomplishments unbelievable, but I could tell she is really passionate about the work she is doing. Her excitement for the project is contagious, and I started getting really excited to start!
Society of Hospital Medicine Events, Online Tools, Programs for Hospitalists
Career Advancers: SHM Events, Online Tools, and Programs
Hospitalists can advance their careers and the hospital medicine movement at the same time, with in-person events, online tools, and other programs designed specifically for people providing care to hospitalized patients.
When hospitalists meet face to face, good things happen. Solutions are shared. Challenges are addressed. But most importantly, SHM’s meetings are sources of energy and inspiration for the thousands of hospitalists who attend them every year.
July 23-26, San Antonio
There’s still time to register for the fast-growing national event organized specifically for pediatric hospitalists. This year, the meeting will focus on mentoring, networking, and partnerships to improve children’s health locally and globally.
Meeting attendees should plan on downloading the PHM 2015 app to get session materials, download presentations, and find their way at the conference.
October 19-22, Austin
Have you taken on more leadership responsibilities at your hospital?
Or are you ready to demonstrate that you’re ready to take them on?
SHM’s Leadership Academy has trained thousands of hospitalists to lead groups more effectively and to understand the financial realities of running a hospital
medicine practice. www.hospitalmedicine.org/leadership
March 6-9, 2016, San Diego
Every year, thousands of hospitalists gather for educational sessions, professional networking, and time to catch up with friends in the hospital medicine movement. Now is the time to schedule time off and register! www.hospitalmedicine2016.org
Meet-Ups for Medical Students and Residents
Chicago and Los Angeles
Are you in the Chicago or Los Angeles area? Do you know medical students and residents exploring their career options? Make sure they know about SHM’s
Future of Hospital Medicine events later this year. Each event features hospitalist leaders talking about their careers and—of course—there will be food. The first event was held in May at University of Chicago. Upcoming events will be at Rush University in Chicago on September 24 and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on October 22. Visit the website below for details, and share with your colleagues! www.futureofhospitalmedicine.org/events
If you can’t make it to in-person events, SHM brings some of the very best of the hospital medicine movement to your smartphone, tablet, and computer.
New at the Learning Portal: “Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment” and “Patient Safety Tools”
Free CME is available to all SHM members at www.shmlearningportal.org, and new modules are added all the time. Recently, SHM has added two new modules:
- Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment. Perioperative cardiac complications are the most widely feared medical issues for the anesthesiologist, surgeon, and medical consultant as they approach a patient with the option of surgery. To assess for pre-operative cardiac risk, hospitalists should follow a step-wise algorithm. This new module reviews the risk assessment process and enables the hospitalist to order appropriate pre-operative testing.
- Patient Safety Tools: Root Cause Analysis and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis 2015. This updated online learning module begins with a lesson and contains a 10-question post-test with accompanying answers, rationales, and references. When the participant selects an answer, immediate feedback is given explaining the correct answer.
Quality Improvement Webinars
SHM is hosting nine webinars between now and September. Hospitalists can attend the webinars in real time or download them from the SHM website at www.hospitalmedicine.org/qiwebinar.
Project BOOST webinar series:
- Project BOOST Teach-Back;
- Project BOOST Presents “Partnering with Skilled Nursing Facilities”; and
- Project BOOST Presents “Approaches to Readmission Risk Stratification.”
Glycemic control webinar series:
- Perioperative Management of Hyperglycemia;
- Hypoglycemia Management and Prevention; and
- Subcutaneous Insulin Order Sets in the Inpatient Setting: Design and Implementation.
General QI webinars:
- Quality Improvement for Hospital Medicine Groups: Self-Assessment and Self-Improvement Using the SHM Key Characteristics;
- Coaching a Quality Improvement Team: Basics for Being Sure Any QI Team and Project Are on the Right Track; and
- Elevating Provider Experience to Improve Patient Experience.
Evaluate Your Performance with the ACS Performance Improvement CME Program
The ACS PI-CME is a self-directed, web-based activity designed to help you evaluate your practice. Registration is FREE. Upon completion of the activity, participants will receive 20 CME Credits.
For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/acs and click “REGISTER.”
Brand New Podcast: “Before the White Coat”
To download and subscribe to “Before the White Coat,” visit www.beforethewhitecoat.org.
Career Advancers: SHM Events, Online Tools, and Programs
Hospitalists can advance their careers and the hospital medicine movement at the same time, with in-person events, online tools, and other programs designed specifically for people providing care to hospitalized patients.
When hospitalists meet face to face, good things happen. Solutions are shared. Challenges are addressed. But most importantly, SHM’s meetings are sources of energy and inspiration for the thousands of hospitalists who attend them every year.
July 23-26, San Antonio
There’s still time to register for the fast-growing national event organized specifically for pediatric hospitalists. This year, the meeting will focus on mentoring, networking, and partnerships to improve children’s health locally and globally.
Meeting attendees should plan on downloading the PHM 2015 app to get session materials, download presentations, and find their way at the conference.
October 19-22, Austin
Have you taken on more leadership responsibilities at your hospital?
Or are you ready to demonstrate that you’re ready to take them on?
SHM’s Leadership Academy has trained thousands of hospitalists to lead groups more effectively and to understand the financial realities of running a hospital
medicine practice. www.hospitalmedicine.org/leadership
March 6-9, 2016, San Diego
Every year, thousands of hospitalists gather for educational sessions, professional networking, and time to catch up with friends in the hospital medicine movement. Now is the time to schedule time off and register! www.hospitalmedicine2016.org
Meet-Ups for Medical Students and Residents
Chicago and Los Angeles
Are you in the Chicago or Los Angeles area? Do you know medical students and residents exploring their career options? Make sure they know about SHM’s
Future of Hospital Medicine events later this year. Each event features hospitalist leaders talking about their careers and—of course—there will be food. The first event was held in May at University of Chicago. Upcoming events will be at Rush University in Chicago on September 24 and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on October 22. Visit the website below for details, and share with your colleagues! www.futureofhospitalmedicine.org/events
If you can’t make it to in-person events, SHM brings some of the very best of the hospital medicine movement to your smartphone, tablet, and computer.
New at the Learning Portal: “Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment” and “Patient Safety Tools”
Free CME is available to all SHM members at www.shmlearningportal.org, and new modules are added all the time. Recently, SHM has added two new modules:
- Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment. Perioperative cardiac complications are the most widely feared medical issues for the anesthesiologist, surgeon, and medical consultant as they approach a patient with the option of surgery. To assess for pre-operative cardiac risk, hospitalists should follow a step-wise algorithm. This new module reviews the risk assessment process and enables the hospitalist to order appropriate pre-operative testing.
- Patient Safety Tools: Root Cause Analysis and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis 2015. This updated online learning module begins with a lesson and contains a 10-question post-test with accompanying answers, rationales, and references. When the participant selects an answer, immediate feedback is given explaining the correct answer.
Quality Improvement Webinars
SHM is hosting nine webinars between now and September. Hospitalists can attend the webinars in real time or download them from the SHM website at www.hospitalmedicine.org/qiwebinar.
Project BOOST webinar series:
- Project BOOST Teach-Back;
- Project BOOST Presents “Partnering with Skilled Nursing Facilities”; and
- Project BOOST Presents “Approaches to Readmission Risk Stratification.”
Glycemic control webinar series:
- Perioperative Management of Hyperglycemia;
- Hypoglycemia Management and Prevention; and
- Subcutaneous Insulin Order Sets in the Inpatient Setting: Design and Implementation.
General QI webinars:
- Quality Improvement for Hospital Medicine Groups: Self-Assessment and Self-Improvement Using the SHM Key Characteristics;
- Coaching a Quality Improvement Team: Basics for Being Sure Any QI Team and Project Are on the Right Track; and
- Elevating Provider Experience to Improve Patient Experience.
Evaluate Your Performance with the ACS Performance Improvement CME Program
The ACS PI-CME is a self-directed, web-based activity designed to help you evaluate your practice. Registration is FREE. Upon completion of the activity, participants will receive 20 CME Credits.
For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/acs and click “REGISTER.”
Brand New Podcast: “Before the White Coat”
To download and subscribe to “Before the White Coat,” visit www.beforethewhitecoat.org.
Career Advancers: SHM Events, Online Tools, and Programs
Hospitalists can advance their careers and the hospital medicine movement at the same time, with in-person events, online tools, and other programs designed specifically for people providing care to hospitalized patients.
When hospitalists meet face to face, good things happen. Solutions are shared. Challenges are addressed. But most importantly, SHM’s meetings are sources of energy and inspiration for the thousands of hospitalists who attend them every year.
July 23-26, San Antonio
There’s still time to register for the fast-growing national event organized specifically for pediatric hospitalists. This year, the meeting will focus on mentoring, networking, and partnerships to improve children’s health locally and globally.
Meeting attendees should plan on downloading the PHM 2015 app to get session materials, download presentations, and find their way at the conference.
October 19-22, Austin
Have you taken on more leadership responsibilities at your hospital?
Or are you ready to demonstrate that you’re ready to take them on?
SHM’s Leadership Academy has trained thousands of hospitalists to lead groups more effectively and to understand the financial realities of running a hospital
medicine practice. www.hospitalmedicine.org/leadership
March 6-9, 2016, San Diego
Every year, thousands of hospitalists gather for educational sessions, professional networking, and time to catch up with friends in the hospital medicine movement. Now is the time to schedule time off and register! www.hospitalmedicine2016.org
Meet-Ups for Medical Students and Residents
Chicago and Los Angeles
Are you in the Chicago or Los Angeles area? Do you know medical students and residents exploring their career options? Make sure they know about SHM’s
Future of Hospital Medicine events later this year. Each event features hospitalist leaders talking about their careers and—of course—there will be food. The first event was held in May at University of Chicago. Upcoming events will be at Rush University in Chicago on September 24 and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on October 22. Visit the website below for details, and share with your colleagues! www.futureofhospitalmedicine.org/events
If you can’t make it to in-person events, SHM brings some of the very best of the hospital medicine movement to your smartphone, tablet, and computer.
New at the Learning Portal: “Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment” and “Patient Safety Tools”
Free CME is available to all SHM members at www.shmlearningportal.org, and new modules are added all the time. Recently, SHM has added two new modules:
- Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment. Perioperative cardiac complications are the most widely feared medical issues for the anesthesiologist, surgeon, and medical consultant as they approach a patient with the option of surgery. To assess for pre-operative cardiac risk, hospitalists should follow a step-wise algorithm. This new module reviews the risk assessment process and enables the hospitalist to order appropriate pre-operative testing.
- Patient Safety Tools: Root Cause Analysis and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis 2015. This updated online learning module begins with a lesson and contains a 10-question post-test with accompanying answers, rationales, and references. When the participant selects an answer, immediate feedback is given explaining the correct answer.
Quality Improvement Webinars
SHM is hosting nine webinars between now and September. Hospitalists can attend the webinars in real time or download them from the SHM website at www.hospitalmedicine.org/qiwebinar.
Project BOOST webinar series:
- Project BOOST Teach-Back;
- Project BOOST Presents “Partnering with Skilled Nursing Facilities”; and
- Project BOOST Presents “Approaches to Readmission Risk Stratification.”
Glycemic control webinar series:
- Perioperative Management of Hyperglycemia;
- Hypoglycemia Management and Prevention; and
- Subcutaneous Insulin Order Sets in the Inpatient Setting: Design and Implementation.
General QI webinars:
- Quality Improvement for Hospital Medicine Groups: Self-Assessment and Self-Improvement Using the SHM Key Characteristics;
- Coaching a Quality Improvement Team: Basics for Being Sure Any QI Team and Project Are on the Right Track; and
- Elevating Provider Experience to Improve Patient Experience.
Evaluate Your Performance with the ACS Performance Improvement CME Program
The ACS PI-CME is a self-directed, web-based activity designed to help you evaluate your practice. Registration is FREE. Upon completion of the activity, participants will receive 20 CME Credits.
For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/acs and click “REGISTER.”
Brand New Podcast: “Before the White Coat”
To download and subscribe to “Before the White Coat,” visit www.beforethewhitecoat.org.
Society of Hospital Medicine Membership Ambassador Program Benefits Hospitalists
Now, through SHM’s Membership Ambassador Program, SHM members can earn 2016-2017 dues credits and special recognition for recruiting new physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, pharmacist, or affiliate members. And for every new member recruited, hospitalists will receive one entry into a grand prize drawing to receive complimentary registration to Hospital Medicine 2016 in San Diego.
Demonstrating leadership by becoming a Fellow or Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine is another great way to move it forward—and propel your career at the same time. July and August are excellent months to begin the FHM or SFHM application process.
Click for more details and great SHM merchandise.
Now, through SHM’s Membership Ambassador Program, SHM members can earn 2016-2017 dues credits and special recognition for recruiting new physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, pharmacist, or affiliate members. And for every new member recruited, hospitalists will receive one entry into a grand prize drawing to receive complimentary registration to Hospital Medicine 2016 in San Diego.
Demonstrating leadership by becoming a Fellow or Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine is another great way to move it forward—and propel your career at the same time. July and August are excellent months to begin the FHM or SFHM application process.
Click for more details and great SHM merchandise.
Now, through SHM’s Membership Ambassador Program, SHM members can earn 2016-2017 dues credits and special recognition for recruiting new physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, pharmacist, or affiliate members. And for every new member recruited, hospitalists will receive one entry into a grand prize drawing to receive complimentary registration to Hospital Medicine 2016 in San Diego.
Demonstrating leadership by becoming a Fellow or Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine is another great way to move it forward—and propel your career at the same time. July and August are excellent months to begin the FHM or SFHM application process.
Click for more details and great SHM merchandise.
How Hospitalists Can Support the Hospital Medicine Movement
There are all kinds of ways to show your support for the hospital medicine movement, including the following opportunities:
- Visit and share the new Future of Hospital Medicine website (www.futureofhospitalmedicine.org) with medical students, residents, and colleagues.
- Plan to attend a Future of Hospital Medicine event in your city:
- Chicago: Rush University, Sept. 24
- Los Angeles: UCLA, Oct. 22
- Apply for FHM or SFHM status today! Now’s the time to begin the application process for Fellow in Hospital Medicine or Senior Fellow. Visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/fellows for details.
- Recruit others to join the movement. Active members can receive dues credits and special recognition for recruiting others. For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/membership.
- Get the gear! Visit www.hospitalmedicine.org for the latest in hospitalist apparel, including new hoodies, coffee tumblers, water bottles, and tablet cases.
There are all kinds of ways to show your support for the hospital medicine movement, including the following opportunities:
- Visit and share the new Future of Hospital Medicine website (www.futureofhospitalmedicine.org) with medical students, residents, and colleagues.
- Plan to attend a Future of Hospital Medicine event in your city:
- Chicago: Rush University, Sept. 24
- Los Angeles: UCLA, Oct. 22
- Apply for FHM or SFHM status today! Now’s the time to begin the application process for Fellow in Hospital Medicine or Senior Fellow. Visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/fellows for details.
- Recruit others to join the movement. Active members can receive dues credits and special recognition for recruiting others. For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/membership.
- Get the gear! Visit www.hospitalmedicine.org for the latest in hospitalist apparel, including new hoodies, coffee tumblers, water bottles, and tablet cases.
There are all kinds of ways to show your support for the hospital medicine movement, including the following opportunities:
- Visit and share the new Future of Hospital Medicine website (www.futureofhospitalmedicine.org) with medical students, residents, and colleagues.
- Plan to attend a Future of Hospital Medicine event in your city:
- Chicago: Rush University, Sept. 24
- Los Angeles: UCLA, Oct. 22
- Apply for FHM or SFHM status today! Now’s the time to begin the application process for Fellow in Hospital Medicine or Senior Fellow. Visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/fellows for details.
- Recruit others to join the movement. Active members can receive dues credits and special recognition for recruiting others. For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/membership.
- Get the gear! Visit www.hospitalmedicine.org for the latest in hospitalist apparel, including new hoodies, coffee tumblers, water bottles, and tablet cases.
Society of Hospital Medicine Engagement Benchmarking Service Available
SHM’s new Engagement Benchmarking Service helps hospital medicine groups (HMGs) better understand how to engage their physicians for increased retention and performance. Now, SHM is offering the service free to SHM members as a way to build a database and familiarize HMGs with the value of the service. For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/engage.
SHM’s new Engagement Benchmarking Service helps hospital medicine groups (HMGs) better understand how to engage their physicians for increased retention and performance. Now, SHM is offering the service free to SHM members as a way to build a database and familiarize HMGs with the value of the service. For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/engage.
SHM’s new Engagement Benchmarking Service helps hospital medicine groups (HMGs) better understand how to engage their physicians for increased retention and performance. Now, SHM is offering the service free to SHM members as a way to build a database and familiarize HMGs with the value of the service. For details, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/engage.