Here you will find blog posts relevant to medical students, residents and their advisors exploring career development in hospital medicine. To learn more about what SHM offers students and residents, visit: www.hospitalmedicine.org/students or www.hospitalmedicine.org/residents.
October 25, 2021 |
2In honor of Mental Health Awareness Week, October’s #JHMChat focused on physicians’ mental health. It was inspired by this article from the Journal of Hospital Medicine, centered on Dr. Justin Bullock’s personal experience with seeking treatment for his mental illness. His account was the backdrop of the article’s discussion of what happens when physicians disclose […]
October 23, 2020 |
0As an aspiring physician, I like learning about how things work. Since medical students learn very little about the “business” of medicine in school, this led me to pioneer a project on missed billing by hospitalists at a medium-sized hospital in the northeastern US. Although hospitalists do a tremendous amount of work, they do not […]
April 17, 2020 |
0As senior internal medicine residents approaching our graduation this summer, my classmates and I have experienced a very different final few months of training, thanks to COVID-19. Far beyond not being the calm coast to the finish line that I had personally hoped for, this final quarter of residency will undoubtedly prove to be one […]
January 28, 2020 |
0I recently made it to my 20-year medical school reunion. I reached that point when everything I learned in medical school is officially obsolete. I guess no more purging and bloodletting. The clinical years of medical school were the most incredible – when we get to experience almost every discipline, try everything out for size […]
October 28, 2019 |
0By: Emily Gottenborg, MD and Ashley Duckett, MD As fall arrives, new interns are rapidly gaining clinical confidence, and residency recruitment season is ramping up. It’s also time to announce the opening of the SHM Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant Program applications; we are now recruiting our sixth group of scholars for the summer and longitudinal […]
June 26, 2019 |
1It is that time of year… it’s hotter, more humid and more hazy. However, while most of the academic world slows down in the summer for sabbatical, hospitals everywhere are frantically orienting new interns before unleashing them to take care of patients… supervised, of course. While much attention is paid to the “July effect” and […]
