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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 UC San Diego (UCSD) Division of Hospital Medicine Fellowship program grew from a junior faculty mentoring program that was offered to new hires early in their careers, said Pedro Ramos, MD, FHM, ...
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 United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses. 1 Opioid addiction has a tremendous negative effect on parents and children by ...
A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper respiratory ...
Dr. Chadha is an associate professor of medicine, advanced development director of internal medicine, medical director for physician development in the division of hospital medicine, and associate ...
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 ...