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

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 ...

The annual sepsis update distilled a year’s worth of high-impact evidence into practice-ready guidance for busy hospitalists. Here are highlights of the pivotal trials, clinical pearls, and future ...

The session emphasized different strategies to initiate buprenorphine, naltrexone, acamprosate, gabapentin, and phenobarbital therapy in patients with SUDs.

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

Tom Collins is a freelance writer in South Florida who has written about medical topics from nasty infections to ethical dilemmas, runaway tumors to tornado-chasing doctors. He travels the globe ...

The Hospitalist is the monthly news magazine of the Society of Hospital Medicine, reporting on issues and trends in hospital medicine relevant to hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse ...

In this article, we identify the top 10 most impactful articles for pediatric hospital medicine in 2025, as presented at the Pediatric Update at SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas. Four publications are ...

Hospitalist nurse practitioner and physician assistant providers have been a growing and evolving part of the inpatient medical workforce, seemingly since the inception of hospital medicine.

Obesity is a chronic disease and a global health challenge across all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA), has shown promising ...

September is Women in Medicine Month, a time to inspire, elevate, and recognize women and their roles in medicine. The following SHM members—recommended by members of The Hospitalist’s editorial board ...

SHM’s Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee (PMRC) members debut a new column in The Hospitalist —“Demystifying Performance Measures.” This series intends to provide members with a framework ...