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Student-Resident Luncheon offers relaxed networking
The free luncheon will include several tables, each dedicated to a specific topic, such as pediatric hospital medicine, with an experienced...
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High-value care abstracts in spotlight
Three abstracts are expected to be chosen as the best and slated for short oral presentations in the HVC abstract session.
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Speed-mentoring event targets junior hospitalists
Junior hospitalists will submit questions and topics on which they’d like to get advice, so they can be matched to three senior advisers.
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Pre-course focuses on perioperative care
Hospitalists packed the room on Monday for a pre-course brimming with information on how to better care for patients undergoing surgery
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Communication expert to explore work-life balance
A talk at this year’s meeting will take on the issue of work-life balance, which is often an ideal that hospitalists find difficult to attain.
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Hospitalists get hands-on training at POC ultrasound pre-course
A record number of hospitalists and other health care professionals took part in this full-day course that featured two hands-on training segments...
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Experienced HM clinicians tackle opioid issues
"We will be discussing how hospitalists have contributed to the opioid epidemic, and how we can be part of the solution."
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Hospitalists See Benefit from Working with ‘Surgicalists’
The collaboration is widely supported by hospitalists because it brings several advantages, mainly a greater availability of the surgeon for...
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Tips for Hospitalists on Solving Difficult Situations
Tough cases and the firing of hospitalists sometimes arise without clear-cut solutions—here’s how these real-life cases were resolved
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HM16 AUDIO: U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, Discusses Hospital Medicine's Role in Public Health
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, talks about the role hospitalists can play in public health. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist....
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HM16 AUDIO: Alyssa Stephany, MD, Talks about the HM16 RIV Scientific Abstract Competition
Alyssa Stephany, MD, then assistant professor at Duke and now section chief of pediatric hospital medicine at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin,...
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HM16 AUDIO: Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, Chats up His Research on Costs and Complications with PICC Line Usage
RIV winner Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, assistant professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, talks about his research on the costs and...
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HM16 AUDIO: Jordan Romano Discusses Getting Published, Hospitalist Burnout
Jordan Romano, DO, a hospitalist at Massachusetts General Hospital, talks about lessons gleaned at HM16 on the importance of taking small steps...
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Annual Meeting Highlights Latest Research, Project Completion
One of the things that Jennifer Feighner, MD, cheerfully came away with at HM16 was how to better complete a task that is distinctly uncheerful...