Brendon Shank

Tiered training prepares hospitalists for the business of medicine

Hospitalists often leave residency feeling prepared for clinical work, but they quickly realize that the clinical side of hospitalist work is only one part of a larger spectrum of skill sets needed to succeed. Leading teams, addressing conflict, and understanding the financial implications of hospital care are important parts of life in hospital medicine, but rarely are they taught in academic life.

The demand for these skills help explain the popularity of SHM’s Leadership Academy, which has trained more than 1,000 hospitalists in financial storytelling, meta-leadership, and the mindset of a hospital CEO.

For the first time, in October, SHM will present all three levels of its leadership courses concurrently:

Foundations for Effective Leadership.

This four-day course serves as a prerequisite to all other academy courses. Attendees learn how to evaluate personal leadership strengths and weaknesses, create and execute a communication strategy for key team members, understand key hospital drivers, examine how hospital metrics are derived, and more.

Advanced Leadership: Strategies and Tools for Personal Leadership Excellence.

Through world-renowned faculty and applied exercises, this course builds skills around driving culture change through specific leadership behaviors and actions, financial storytelling, engaging in effective professional negotiation activities with proven techniques, and more.

Advanced Leadership: Developing a Winning Team and Strengthening Your Organization.

Developed in response to high demand from academy attendees, this course focuses on strengthening teams and institutions. Participants learn how to critically assess program growth opportunities and develop operational plans; lead, manage, and motivate teams in complex hospital environments; and effective communication strategies.

In addition to career-building skills, participants in each course will learn about SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine. Drs. Thomas McIlraith and Sameh Naseib received SHM’s inaugural Certificates of Leadership in Hospital Medicine on stage during the plenary session at HM13.

For academy courses, faculty, and registration information, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/leadership.

Tiered training prepares hospitalists for the business of medicine

Hospitalists often leave residency feeling prepared for clinical work, but they quickly realize that the clinical side of hospitalist work is only one part of a larger spectrum of skill sets needed to succeed. Leading teams, addressing conflict, and understanding the financial implications of hospital care are important parts of life in hospital medicine, but rarely are they taught in academic life.

The demand for these skills help explain the popularity of SHM’s Leadership Academy, which has trained more than 1,000 hospitalists in financial storytelling, meta-leadership, and the mindset of a hospital CEO.

For the first time, in October, SHM will present all three levels of its leadership courses concurrently:

Foundations for Effective Leadership.

This four-day course serves as a prerequisite to all other academy courses. Attendees learn how to evaluate personal leadership strengths and weaknesses, create and execute a communication strategy for key team members, understand key hospital drivers, examine how hospital metrics are derived, and more.

Advanced Leadership: Strategies and Tools for Personal Leadership Excellence.

Through world-renowned faculty and applied exercises, this course builds skills around driving culture change through specific leadership behaviors and actions, financial storytelling, engaging in effective professional negotiation activities with proven techniques, and more.

Advanced Leadership: Developing a Winning Team and Strengthening Your Organization.

Developed in response to high demand from academy attendees, this course focuses on strengthening teams and institutions. Participants learn how to critically assess program growth opportunities and develop operational plans; lead, manage, and motivate teams in complex hospital environments; and effective communication strategies.

In addition to career-building skills, participants in each course will learn about SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine. Drs. Thomas McIlraith and Sameh Naseib received SHM’s inaugural Certificates of Leadership in Hospital Medicine on stage during the plenary session at HM13.

For academy courses, faculty, and registration information, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/leadership.

Tiered training prepares hospitalists for the business of medicine

Hospitalists often leave residency feeling prepared for clinical work, but they quickly realize that the clinical side of hospitalist work is only one part of a larger spectrum of skill sets needed to succeed. Leading teams, addressing conflict, and understanding the financial implications of hospital care are important parts of life in hospital medicine, but rarely are they taught in academic life.

The demand for these skills help explain the popularity of SHM’s Leadership Academy, which has trained more than 1,000 hospitalists in financial storytelling, meta-leadership, and the mindset of a hospital CEO.

For the first time, in October, SHM will present all three levels of its leadership courses concurrently:

Foundations for Effective Leadership.

This four-day course serves as a prerequisite to all other academy courses. Attendees learn how to evaluate personal leadership strengths and weaknesses, create and execute a communication strategy for key team members, understand key hospital drivers, examine how hospital metrics are derived, and more.

Advanced Leadership: Strategies and Tools for Personal Leadership Excellence.

Through world-renowned faculty and applied exercises, this course builds skills around driving culture change through specific leadership behaviors and actions, financial storytelling, engaging in effective professional negotiation activities with proven techniques, and more.

Advanced Leadership: Developing a Winning Team and Strengthening Your Organization.

Developed in response to high demand from academy attendees, this course focuses on strengthening teams and institutions. Participants learn how to critically assess program growth opportunities and develop operational plans; lead, manage, and motivate teams in complex hospital environments; and effective communication strategies.

In addition to career-building skills, participants in each course will learn about SHM’s Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine. Drs. Thomas McIlraith and Sameh Naseib received SHM’s inaugural Certificates of Leadership in Hospital Medicine on stage during the plenary session at HM13.

For academy courses, faculty, and registration information, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/leadership.

Getting involved—and getting ahead—in hospital medicine has never been easier, with just some planning and preparation. Here are three ways to move your hospital—and your career—forward this month.

1. Add “award-winning” to your CV: SHM’s Awards of Excellence deadline is Sept. 16.

Although 2013’s award-winners are still fresh in hospitalists’ minds, now is the time to put together award applications for the 2014 Awards of Excellence.

Each year, SHM presents six different awards that recognize individuals and one award to a team that is transforming health care and revolutionizing patient care for hospitalized patients:

• Excellence in Research Award;
• Excellence in Hospital Medicine for Non-Physicians;
• Award for Excellence in Teaching;
• Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine;
• Award for Clinical Excellence; and
• Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement.

Last year, SHM received award nominations from a diverse group of hospitalists and looks forward to receiving even more this year. Each winner receives an all-expenses-paid trip to HM14 in Las Vegas, including complimentary meeting registration.

The deadline for applications for SHM’s five individual awards is Sept. 16. The deadline for the Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement is Oct. 15. All SHM members are eligible, and nominees can be self-nominated.

For more information, visit www.hospital medicine.org/awards.

2. Bring the experts in reducing readmissions to your hospital: Apply now for Project BOOST.

There is still time to apply for SHM’s Project BOOST, which helps hospitals design discharge programs to reduce readmissions. SHM will accept applications for Project BOOST until the end of August.

Project BOOST is based on SHM’s award-winning mentored implementation model that brings individualized attention from national experts in reducing readmissions to hospitals across the country. Each Project BOOST site receives:

• A comprehensive intervention developed by a panel of nationally recognized experts based on the best available evidence.
• A comprehensive implementation guide that provides step-by-step instructions and project-management tools, such as the teachback training curriculum, to help interdisciplinary teams redesign workflow and plan, implement, and evaluate the intervention.
• Longitudinal technical assistance providing face-to-face training and a year of expert mentoring and coaching to implement BOOST interventions that build a culture that supports safe and complete transitions. The mentoring program provides a training DVD and curriculum for nurses and case managers on using the teachback process, as well as webinars that target the educational needs of other team members, including administrators, data analysts, physicians, nurses, and others.
• Collaboration that allows sites to communicate with and learn from each other via the BOOST community site and quarterly all-site teleconferences and webinars.
• The BOOST data center, an online resource that allows sites to store and benchmark data against control units and other sites and generates reports.

For more information, visit www.hospital medicine.org/boost.

3. Start Choosing Wisely today.

In 2014, as part of a grant from the ABIM Foundation, SHM will begin its first Choosing Wisely case-study competition to highlight hospitalists’ best practices within the popular campaign.

But in order to have a successful case study next year, some preparation is in order now. Developing goals, gathering a team, and, perhaps most important, developing benchmarking data on a project motivated by Choosing Wisely will all be important parts of a compelling case study.

To start brainstorming your project to implement Choosing Wisely recommendations at your hospital, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/choosingwisely.

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

Getting involved—and getting ahead—in hospital medicine has never been easier, with just some planning and preparation. Here are three ways to move your hospital—and your career—forward this month.

1. Add “award-winning” to your CV: SHM’s Awards of Excellence deadline is Sept. 16.

Although 2013’s award-winners are still fresh in hospitalists’ minds, now is the time to put together award applications for the 2014 Awards of Excellence.

Each year, SHM presents six different awards that recognize individuals and one award to a team that is transforming health care and revolutionizing patient care for hospitalized patients:

• Excellence in Research Award;
• Excellence in Hospital Medicine for Non-Physicians;
• Award for Excellence in Teaching;
• Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine;
• Award for Clinical Excellence; and
• Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement.

Last year, SHM received award nominations from a diverse group of hospitalists and looks forward to receiving even more this year. Each winner receives an all-expenses-paid trip to HM14 in Las Vegas, including complimentary meeting registration.

The deadline for applications for SHM’s five individual awards is Sept. 16. The deadline for the Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement is Oct. 15. All SHM members are eligible, and nominees can be self-nominated.

For more information, visit www.hospital medicine.org/awards.

2. Bring the experts in reducing readmissions to your hospital: Apply now for Project BOOST.

There is still time to apply for SHM’s Project BOOST, which helps hospitals design discharge programs to reduce readmissions. SHM will accept applications for Project BOOST until the end of August.

Project BOOST is based on SHM’s award-winning mentored implementation model that brings individualized attention from national experts in reducing readmissions to hospitals across the country. Each Project BOOST site receives:

• A comprehensive intervention developed by a panel of nationally recognized experts based on the best available evidence.
• A comprehensive implementation guide that provides step-by-step instructions and project-management tools, such as the teachback training curriculum, to help interdisciplinary teams redesign workflow and plan, implement, and evaluate the intervention.
• Longitudinal technical assistance providing face-to-face training and a year of expert mentoring and coaching to implement BOOST interventions that build a culture that supports safe and complete transitions. The mentoring program provides a training DVD and curriculum for nurses and case managers on using the teachback process, as well as webinars that target the educational needs of other team members, including administrators, data analysts, physicians, nurses, and others.
• Collaboration that allows sites to communicate with and learn from each other via the BOOST community site and quarterly all-site teleconferences and webinars.
• The BOOST data center, an online resource that allows sites to store and benchmark data against control units and other sites and generates reports.

For more information, visit www.hospital medicine.org/boost.

3. Start Choosing Wisely today.

In 2014, as part of a grant from the ABIM Foundation, SHM will begin its first Choosing Wisely case-study competition to highlight hospitalists’ best practices within the popular campaign.

But in order to have a successful case study next year, some preparation is in order now. Developing goals, gathering a team, and, perhaps most important, developing benchmarking data on a project motivated by Choosing Wisely will all be important parts of a compelling case study.

To start brainstorming your project to implement Choosing Wisely recommendations at your hospital, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/choosingwisely.

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

Getting involved—and getting ahead—in hospital medicine has never been easier, with just some planning and preparation. Here are three ways to move your hospital—and your career—forward this month.

1. Add “award-winning” to your CV: SHM’s Awards of Excellence deadline is Sept. 16.

Although 2013’s award-winners are still fresh in hospitalists’ minds, now is the time to put together award applications for the 2014 Awards of Excellence.

Each year, SHM presents six different awards that recognize individuals and one award to a team that is transforming health care and revolutionizing patient care for hospitalized patients:

• Excellence in Research Award;
• Excellence in Hospital Medicine for Non-Physicians;
• Award for Excellence in Teaching;
• Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine;
• Award for Clinical Excellence; and
• Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement.

Last year, SHM received award nominations from a diverse group of hospitalists and looks forward to receiving even more this year. Each winner receives an all-expenses-paid trip to HM14 in Las Vegas, including complimentary meeting registration.

The deadline for applications for SHM’s five individual awards is Sept. 16. The deadline for the Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement is Oct. 15. All SHM members are eligible, and nominees can be self-nominated.

For more information, visit www.hospital medicine.org/awards.

2. Bring the experts in reducing readmissions to your hospital: Apply now for Project BOOST.

There is still time to apply for SHM’s Project BOOST, which helps hospitals design discharge programs to reduce readmissions. SHM will accept applications for Project BOOST until the end of August.

Project BOOST is based on SHM’s award-winning mentored implementation model that brings individualized attention from national experts in reducing readmissions to hospitals across the country. Each Project BOOST site receives:

• A comprehensive intervention developed by a panel of nationally recognized experts based on the best available evidence.
• A comprehensive implementation guide that provides step-by-step instructions and project-management tools, such as the teachback training curriculum, to help interdisciplinary teams redesign workflow and plan, implement, and evaluate the intervention.
• Longitudinal technical assistance providing face-to-face training and a year of expert mentoring and coaching to implement BOOST interventions that build a culture that supports safe and complete transitions. The mentoring program provides a training DVD and curriculum for nurses and case managers on using the teachback process, as well as webinars that target the educational needs of other team members, including administrators, data analysts, physicians, nurses, and others.
• Collaboration that allows sites to communicate with and learn from each other via the BOOST community site and quarterly all-site teleconferences and webinars.
• The BOOST data center, an online resource that allows sites to store and benchmark data against control units and other sites and generates reports.

For more information, visit www.hospital medicine.org/boost.

3. Start Choosing Wisely today.

In 2014, as part of a grant from the ABIM Foundation, SHM will begin its first Choosing Wisely case-study competition to highlight hospitalists’ best practices within the popular campaign.

But in order to have a successful case study next year, some preparation is in order now. Developing goals, gathering a team, and, perhaps most important, developing benchmarking data on a project motivated by Choosing Wisely will all be important parts of a compelling case study.

To start brainstorming your project to implement Choosing Wisely recommendations at your hospital, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/choosingwisely.

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

The hospitalist model of providing care in the hospital has spread beyond internal medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine. Specialists in a number of other fields have adopted HM principles and adapted them to such medical specialties as orthopedics, surgery, psychiatry, OBGYN, and neurology.

Leaders in those hospital-focused-practice specialties now can work together to share best practices and identify opportunities to improve hospital-based care delivery through SHM, which has dedicated a section of its website (www.hospitalmedicine.org/hfp) to providing hospital-focused-practice caregivers some of the first resources in the specialty.

“SHM has created these Web areas as a place to convene and develop these emerging specialties in hospital medicine,” SHM CEO Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM, says in a video on the website. He says that the new Web areas give specialty hospitalists the chance to “put their practice on the map, begin to share data, post relevant articles, and use social networks to share ideas.”

The site highlights five emerging specialties:

• Orthopedic HM;
• Surgical/acute-care surgery;
• Psychiatric HM;
• OBGYN HM; and
• Neurohospitalists.

Each of the listed specialties has its own section of the website that describes the practice, provides relevant articles, and lists events specific to the practice. Later, SHM expects to include access to a hospital-focused-practice community on its popular Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) online collaboration site.

Specialty hospitalists can literally put their practice on the map by filling out a practice profile form, which then enters the practice information on a map for other specialty hospitalists to see.

High-level conversations among hospitalists and hospital executives about hospital-focused practice began to take shape at a 2011 conference hosted by SHM. In 2012, the American Hospital Association’s Physician Leadership Forum and SHM published the first report on the subject, “Creating the Hospital of the Future: The Implications for Hospital-Focused Physician Practice,” which was sponsored by Apogee Physicians, Delphi Healthcare Partners Inc., and Eagle Hospital Physicians.

Dr. Wellikson says now is the time for these pioneer hospitalists to come together.

“This is your opportunity to create your new specialty,” he says, “and SHM is happy to be a part of this.”

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

The hospitalist model of providing care in the hospital has spread beyond internal medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine. Specialists in a number of other fields have adopted HM principles and adapted them to such medical specialties as orthopedics, surgery, psychiatry, OBGYN, and neurology.

Leaders in those hospital-focused-practice specialties now can work together to share best practices and identify opportunities to improve hospital-based care delivery through SHM, which has dedicated a section of its website (www.hospitalmedicine.org/hfp) to providing hospital-focused-practice caregivers some of the first resources in the specialty.

“SHM has created these Web areas as a place to convene and develop these emerging specialties in hospital medicine,” SHM CEO Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM, says in a video on the website. He says that the new Web areas give specialty hospitalists the chance to “put their practice on the map, begin to share data, post relevant articles, and use social networks to share ideas.”

The site highlights five emerging specialties:

• Orthopedic HM;
• Surgical/acute-care surgery;
• Psychiatric HM;
• OBGYN HM; and
• Neurohospitalists.

Each of the listed specialties has its own section of the website that describes the practice, provides relevant articles, and lists events specific to the practice. Later, SHM expects to include access to a hospital-focused-practice community on its popular Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) online collaboration site.

Specialty hospitalists can literally put their practice on the map by filling out a practice profile form, which then enters the practice information on a map for other specialty hospitalists to see.

High-level conversations among hospitalists and hospital executives about hospital-focused practice began to take shape at a 2011 conference hosted by SHM. In 2012, the American Hospital Association’s Physician Leadership Forum and SHM published the first report on the subject, “Creating the Hospital of the Future: The Implications for Hospital-Focused Physician Practice,” which was sponsored by Apogee Physicians, Delphi Healthcare Partners Inc., and Eagle Hospital Physicians.

Dr. Wellikson says now is the time for these pioneer hospitalists to come together.

“This is your opportunity to create your new specialty,” he says, “and SHM is happy to be a part of this.”

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

The hospitalist model of providing care in the hospital has spread beyond internal medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine. Specialists in a number of other fields have adopted HM principles and adapted them to such medical specialties as orthopedics, surgery, psychiatry, OBGYN, and neurology.

Leaders in those hospital-focused-practice specialties now can work together to share best practices and identify opportunities to improve hospital-based care delivery through SHM, which has dedicated a section of its website (www.hospitalmedicine.org/hfp) to providing hospital-focused-practice caregivers some of the first resources in the specialty.

“SHM has created these Web areas as a place to convene and develop these emerging specialties in hospital medicine,” SHM CEO Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM, says in a video on the website. He says that the new Web areas give specialty hospitalists the chance to “put their practice on the map, begin to share data, post relevant articles, and use social networks to share ideas.”

The site highlights five emerging specialties:

• Orthopedic HM;
• Surgical/acute-care surgery;
• Psychiatric HM;
• OBGYN HM; and
• Neurohospitalists.

Each of the listed specialties has its own section of the website that describes the practice, provides relevant articles, and lists events specific to the practice. Later, SHM expects to include access to a hospital-focused-practice community on its popular Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) online collaboration site.

Specialty hospitalists can literally put their practice on the map by filling out a practice profile form, which then enters the practice information on a map for other specialty hospitalists to see.

High-level conversations among hospitalists and hospital executives about hospital-focused practice began to take shape at a 2011 conference hosted by SHM. In 2012, the American Hospital Association’s Physician Leadership Forum and SHM published the first report on the subject, “Creating the Hospital of the Future: The Implications for Hospital-Focused Physician Practice,” which was sponsored by Apogee Physicians, Delphi Healthcare Partners Inc., and Eagle Hospital Physicians.

Dr. Wellikson says now is the time for these pioneer hospitalists to come together.

“This is your opportunity to create your new specialty,” he says, “and SHM is happy to be a part of this.”

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

Dr. Stephan

SHM presented its annual Awards of Excellence to five hospitalists and one hospital care team at its annual meeting May 18 just outside Washington, D.C. The awards honor the best practices in the growing specialty in such fields as quality improvement (QI), research, teaching, and teamwork.

“We are thrilled to honor this year’s award winners. Not only do they exemplify the very best in hospital medicine, they are also leading the way for thousands of other of hospitalists across the country,” says Jack Percelay, MD, SFHM, MPH, FAAP, chair of SHM’s Awards Committee. “These are not just personal achievements, they are achievements for the entire specialty—and they are a great representation of the depth and diversity of hospital medicine.”

The 2013 SHM Awards of Excellence recipients are:

Dr. Stephan

Award for Clinical Excellence: Tierza M. Stephan, MD, FACP, SFHM, of Allina Health, for her work in creating new models for improving clinical practices for hospitalists. She has played a vital role in the development and maintenance of a number of tools designed to make a significant impact on the patient experience, including a “Top 10 List to Improve Communication with Patients,” and a monthly patient experience newsletter.

Dr. Schnipper

Award for Excellence in Research: Jeffrey Schnipper, MD, MPH, FHM of Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, for his track record in uniting the often separate worlds of quality improvement (QI) and clinical trial research. In addition to earning eight Awards of Excellence from Partners Heatlhcare, he has been an investigator on 24 funded studies and served as the Principal Investigator SHM’s first large federal research grant, a $1.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Dr. Sharpe

Award for Excellence in Teaching: Bradley Sharpe, MD, FACP, SFHM, of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Sharpe earned this year’s award for his continued role in teaching at national meetings, presentations at the Academic Hospitalist Academy, multiple peer-reviewed publications, and scholarly work. He has also been recognized with the UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award.

Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine: Patrick J. Torcson, MD, MMM, SFHM, of St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington, La., for his advocacy on behalf of hospitalists and hospitals for quality and performance in health care. Dr. Torcson has distinguished himself as a national leader in hospital value-based purchasing and helped hospitalists better understand the concept through SHM’s Value-Based Toolkit.

Dr. Kalupas

Award for Excellence in Hospital Medicine for Nonphysicians: Jeanette Kalupa, DNP, ACNP-BC, APNP, of Hospitalists of Northern Michigan, for her work in improving outcomes for patients and implementing best-practice models in hospitalist programs. Those best-practice models have re-engineered patient-care processes, and her dedication to hospital medicine has paved the way for many other nonphysician providers in the specialty.

Award for Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement: The INTERdisciplinary Approaches to Communication and Teamwork (INTERACT) team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, for improving teamwork among physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers. The INTERACT team focuses on one of the most common sites of hospital care: medical surgical units, where effective communication is critical but can be difficult.

SHM is accepting nominations for its 2014 Awards of Excellence, which will be presented at the 2014 annual meeting in Las Vegas. For more information, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/awards.

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

Dr. Stephan

SHM presented its annual Awards of Excellence to five hospitalists and one hospital care team at its annual meeting May 18 just outside Washington, D.C. The awards honor the best practices in the growing specialty in such fields as quality improvement (QI), research, teaching, and teamwork.

“We are thrilled to honor this year’s award winners. Not only do they exemplify the very best in hospital medicine, they are also leading the way for thousands of other of hospitalists across the country,” says Jack Percelay, MD, SFHM, MPH, FAAP, chair of SHM’s Awards Committee. “These are not just personal achievements, they are achievements for the entire specialty—and they are a great representation of the depth and diversity of hospital medicine.”

The 2013 SHM Awards of Excellence recipients are:

Dr. Stephan

Award for Clinical Excellence: Tierza M. Stephan, MD, FACP, SFHM, of Allina Health, for her work in creating new models for improving clinical practices for hospitalists. She has played a vital role in the development and maintenance of a number of tools designed to make a significant impact on the patient experience, including a “Top 10 List to Improve Communication with Patients,” and a monthly patient experience newsletter.

Dr. Schnipper

Award for Excellence in Research: Jeffrey Schnipper, MD, MPH, FHM of Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, for his track record in uniting the often separate worlds of quality improvement (QI) and clinical trial research. In addition to earning eight Awards of Excellence from Partners Heatlhcare, he has been an investigator on 24 funded studies and served as the Principal Investigator SHM’s first large federal research grant, a $1.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Dr. Sharpe

Award for Excellence in Teaching: Bradley Sharpe, MD, FACP, SFHM, of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Sharpe earned this year’s award for his continued role in teaching at national meetings, presentations at the Academic Hospitalist Academy, multiple peer-reviewed publications, and scholarly work. He has also been recognized with the UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award.

Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine: Patrick J. Torcson, MD, MMM, SFHM, of St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington, La., for his advocacy on behalf of hospitalists and hospitals for quality and performance in health care. Dr. Torcson has distinguished himself as a national leader in hospital value-based purchasing and helped hospitalists better understand the concept through SHM’s Value-Based Toolkit.

Dr. Kalupas

Award for Excellence in Hospital Medicine for Nonphysicians: Jeanette Kalupa, DNP, ACNP-BC, APNP, of Hospitalists of Northern Michigan, for her work in improving outcomes for patients and implementing best-practice models in hospitalist programs. Those best-practice models have re-engineered patient-care processes, and her dedication to hospital medicine has paved the way for many other nonphysician providers in the specialty.

Award for Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement: The INTERdisciplinary Approaches to Communication and Teamwork (INTERACT) team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, for improving teamwork among physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers. The INTERACT team focuses on one of the most common sites of hospital care: medical surgical units, where effective communication is critical but can be difficult.

SHM is accepting nominations for its 2014 Awards of Excellence, which will be presented at the 2014 annual meeting in Las Vegas. For more information, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/awards.

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

Dr. Stephan

SHM presented its annual Awards of Excellence to five hospitalists and one hospital care team at its annual meeting May 18 just outside Washington, D.C. The awards honor the best practices in the growing specialty in such fields as quality improvement (QI), research, teaching, and teamwork.

“We are thrilled to honor this year’s award winners. Not only do they exemplify the very best in hospital medicine, they are also leading the way for thousands of other of hospitalists across the country,” says Jack Percelay, MD, SFHM, MPH, FAAP, chair of SHM’s Awards Committee. “These are not just personal achievements, they are achievements for the entire specialty—and they are a great representation of the depth and diversity of hospital medicine.”

The 2013 SHM Awards of Excellence recipients are:

Dr. Stephan

Award for Clinical Excellence: Tierza M. Stephan, MD, FACP, SFHM, of Allina Health, for her work in creating new models for improving clinical practices for hospitalists. She has played a vital role in the development and maintenance of a number of tools designed to make a significant impact on the patient experience, including a “Top 10 List to Improve Communication with Patients,” and a monthly patient experience newsletter.

Dr. Schnipper

Award for Excellence in Research: Jeffrey Schnipper, MD, MPH, FHM of Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, for his track record in uniting the often separate worlds of quality improvement (QI) and clinical trial research. In addition to earning eight Awards of Excellence from Partners Heatlhcare, he has been an investigator on 24 funded studies and served as the Principal Investigator SHM’s first large federal research grant, a $1.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Dr. Sharpe

Award for Excellence in Teaching: Bradley Sharpe, MD, FACP, SFHM, of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Sharpe earned this year’s award for his continued role in teaching at national meetings, presentations at the Academic Hospitalist Academy, multiple peer-reviewed publications, and scholarly work. He has also been recognized with the UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award.

Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine: Patrick J. Torcson, MD, MMM, SFHM, of St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington, La., for his advocacy on behalf of hospitalists and hospitals for quality and performance in health care. Dr. Torcson has distinguished himself as a national leader in hospital value-based purchasing and helped hospitalists better understand the concept through SHM’s Value-Based Toolkit.

Dr. Kalupas

Award for Excellence in Hospital Medicine for Nonphysicians: Jeanette Kalupa, DNP, ACNP-BC, APNP, of Hospitalists of Northern Michigan, for her work in improving outcomes for patients and implementing best-practice models in hospitalist programs. Those best-practice models have re-engineered patient-care processes, and her dedication to hospital medicine has paved the way for many other nonphysician providers in the specialty.

Award for Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement: The INTERdisciplinary Approaches to Communication and Teamwork (INTERACT) team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, for improving teamwork among physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers. The INTERACT team focuses on one of the most common sites of hospital care: medical surgical units, where effective communication is critical but can be difficult.

SHM is accepting nominations for its 2014 Awards of Excellence, which will be presented at the 2014 annual meeting in Las Vegas. For more information, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/awards.

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

SHM announced in May the launch of a new interdisciplinary partnership, the Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition, in conjunction with four other organizations. The alliance’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through nutrition intervention in the hospital.

Representing more than 100,000 dietitians, nurses, hospitalists, and other physicians and clinicians from across the nation, the following organizations have come together with SHM to champion for early nutrition screening, assessment, and intervention in hospitals:

• Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN);
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND);
• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN); and
• Abbott Nutrition.

Malnutrition increases costs, length of stay, and unfavorable outcomes. Properly addressing hospital malnutrition creates an opportunity to improve quality of care while also reducing healthcare costs. Additional clinical research finds that malnourished patients are two times more likely to develop a pressure ulcer, while patients with malnutrition have three times the rate of infection.

Yet when hospitalized patients are provided intervention via oral nutrition supplements, health economic research finds associated benefits:

Nutrition intervention can reduce hospital length of stay by an average of two days, and nutrition intervention has been shown to reduce patient hospitalization costs by 21.6%, or $4,734 per episode.

Additionally, there was a 6.7% reduction in the probability of 30-day readmission with patients who had at least one known subsequent readmission and were offered oral nutrition supplements during hospitalization.

“There is a growing body of evidence supporting the positive impact nutrition has on improving patient outcomes,” says hospitalist Melissa Parkhurst, MD, FHM, who serves as medical director for the University of Kansas Hospital’s hospitalist section and its nutrition support service. “We are seeing that early intervention can make a significant difference. As physicians, we need to work with the entire clinician team to ensure that nutrition is an integral part of our patients’ treatment plans.”

The alliance launched a website at www.malnutrition.org to provide hospital-based clinicians with the following resources:

• Research and fact sheets about malnutrition and the positive impact nutrition intervention has on patient care and outcomes;
• The Alliance Nutrition Toolkit, which facilitates clinician collaboration and nutrition integration; and
• Information about educational events, such as quick learning modules, continuing medical education (CME) programs.

The Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition is made possible with support from Abbott’s nutrition business.

SHM announced in May the launch of a new interdisciplinary partnership, the Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition, in conjunction with four other organizations. The alliance’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through nutrition intervention in the hospital.

Representing more than 100,000 dietitians, nurses, hospitalists, and other physicians and clinicians from across the nation, the following organizations have come together with SHM to champion for early nutrition screening, assessment, and intervention in hospitals:

• Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN);
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND);
• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN); and
• Abbott Nutrition.

Malnutrition increases costs, length of stay, and unfavorable outcomes. Properly addressing hospital malnutrition creates an opportunity to improve quality of care while also reducing healthcare costs. Additional clinical research finds that malnourished patients are two times more likely to develop a pressure ulcer, while patients with malnutrition have three times the rate of infection.

Yet when hospitalized patients are provided intervention via oral nutrition supplements, health economic research finds associated benefits:

Nutrition intervention can reduce hospital length of stay by an average of two days, and nutrition intervention has been shown to reduce patient hospitalization costs by 21.6%, or $4,734 per episode.

Additionally, there was a 6.7% reduction in the probability of 30-day readmission with patients who had at least one known subsequent readmission and were offered oral nutrition supplements during hospitalization.

“There is a growing body of evidence supporting the positive impact nutrition has on improving patient outcomes,” says hospitalist Melissa Parkhurst, MD, FHM, who serves as medical director for the University of Kansas Hospital’s hospitalist section and its nutrition support service. “We are seeing that early intervention can make a significant difference. As physicians, we need to work with the entire clinician team to ensure that nutrition is an integral part of our patients’ treatment plans.”

The alliance launched a website at www.malnutrition.org to provide hospital-based clinicians with the following resources:

• Research and fact sheets about malnutrition and the positive impact nutrition intervention has on patient care and outcomes;
• The Alliance Nutrition Toolkit, which facilitates clinician collaboration and nutrition integration; and
• Information about educational events, such as quick learning modules, continuing medical education (CME) programs.

The Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition is made possible with support from Abbott’s nutrition business.

SHM announced in May the launch of a new interdisciplinary partnership, the Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition, in conjunction with four other organizations. The alliance’s mission is to improve patient outcomes through nutrition intervention in the hospital.

Representing more than 100,000 dietitians, nurses, hospitalists, and other physicians and clinicians from across the nation, the following organizations have come together with SHM to champion for early nutrition screening, assessment, and intervention in hospitals:

• Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN);
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND);
• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN); and
• Abbott Nutrition.

Malnutrition increases costs, length of stay, and unfavorable outcomes. Properly addressing hospital malnutrition creates an opportunity to improve quality of care while also reducing healthcare costs. Additional clinical research finds that malnourished patients are two times more likely to develop a pressure ulcer, while patients with malnutrition have three times the rate of infection.

Yet when hospitalized patients are provided intervention via oral nutrition supplements, health economic research finds associated benefits:

Nutrition intervention can reduce hospital length of stay by an average of two days, and nutrition intervention has been shown to reduce patient hospitalization costs by 21.6%, or $4,734 per episode.

Additionally, there was a 6.7% reduction in the probability of 30-day readmission with patients who had at least one known subsequent readmission and were offered oral nutrition supplements during hospitalization.

“There is a growing body of evidence supporting the positive impact nutrition has on improving patient outcomes,” says hospitalist Melissa Parkhurst, MD, FHM, who serves as medical director for the University of Kansas Hospital’s hospitalist section and its nutrition support service. “We are seeing that early intervention can make a significant difference. As physicians, we need to work with the entire clinician team to ensure that nutrition is an integral part of our patients’ treatment plans.”

The alliance launched a website at www.malnutrition.org to provide hospital-based clinicians with the following resources:

• Research and fact sheets about malnutrition and the positive impact nutrition intervention has on patient care and outcomes;
• The Alliance Nutrition Toolkit, which facilitates clinician collaboration and nutrition integration; and
• Information about educational events, such as quick learning modules, continuing medical education (CME) programs.

The Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition is made possible with support from Abbott’s nutrition business.

Launching this summer, SHM’s new Learning Portal will offer a better way to access and track online CME, with member discounts to a growing library of content. For more information, visit www.shmlearningportal.org.

Launching this summer, SHM’s new Learning Portal will offer a better way to access and track online CME, with member discounts to a growing library of content. For more information, visit www.shmlearningportal.org.

Launching this summer, SHM’s new Learning Portal will offer a better way to access and track online CME, with member discounts to a growing library of content. For more information, visit www.shmlearningportal.org.

Dr. Conway

It doesn’t come as a surprise to many in hospital medicine that the specialty’s influence continues to grow. However, it doesn’t hurt to see it in print.

This year, the readers and senior editors of health-care-media powerhouses Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician named Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, FAAP, SFHM, Robert Wachter, MD, MHM, and Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM, as three of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives” of 2013. According to the magazines, Drs. Conway, Wachter, and Wellikson were selected “for their leadership in the varied sectors of the industry, whether provider organizations, government agencies, associations, insurers, or supplier companies.”

Other media outlets are continuing to acknowledge the leadership role hospitalists are playing across the country, too. The April issue of HealthLeaders magazine featured hospitalists in an article titled “A Bigger Role for Hospitalists.” Writer Joe Cantalupe notes that “increasingly, hospitalists are gaining more responsibilities in areas such as monitoring patients day to day, ordering tests, performing surgeries, handling specialized care, or taking on leadership roles.”

Dr. Conway

It doesn’t come as a surprise to many in hospital medicine that the specialty’s influence continues to grow. However, it doesn’t hurt to see it in print.

This year, the readers and senior editors of health-care-media powerhouses Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician named Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, FAAP, SFHM, Robert Wachter, MD, MHM, and Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM, as three of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives” of 2013. According to the magazines, Drs. Conway, Wachter, and Wellikson were selected “for their leadership in the varied sectors of the industry, whether provider organizations, government agencies, associations, insurers, or supplier companies.”

Other media outlets are continuing to acknowledge the leadership role hospitalists are playing across the country, too. The April issue of HealthLeaders magazine featured hospitalists in an article titled “A Bigger Role for Hospitalists.” Writer Joe Cantalupe notes that “increasingly, hospitalists are gaining more responsibilities in areas such as monitoring patients day to day, ordering tests, performing surgeries, handling specialized care, or taking on leadership roles.”

Dr. Conway

It doesn’t come as a surprise to many in hospital medicine that the specialty’s influence continues to grow. However, it doesn’t hurt to see it in print.

This year, the readers and senior editors of health-care-media powerhouses Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician named Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, FAAP, SFHM, Robert Wachter, MD, MHM, and Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM, as three of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives” of 2013. According to the magazines, Drs. Conway, Wachter, and Wellikson were selected “for their leadership in the varied sectors of the industry, whether provider organizations, government agencies, associations, insurers, or supplier companies.”

Other media outlets are continuing to acknowledge the leadership role hospitalists are playing across the country, too. The April issue of HealthLeaders magazine featured hospitalists in an article titled “A Bigger Role for Hospitalists.” Writer Joe Cantalupe notes that “increasingly, hospitalists are gaining more responsibilities in areas such as monitoring patients day to day, ordering tests, performing surgeries, handling specialized care, or taking on leadership roles.”

This year marks an exciting milestone for pediatric hospitalists: the 10th anniversary of the only national conference dedicated to pediatric hospital medicine (PHM). Although the first meeting might have been just a handful of pediatric hospitalists gathering to better understand an emerging specialty, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2013 will be a bustling gathering of leaders in the now-established field.

New this year are three conundrum sessions and a Sunday plenary session focusing on pediatric overuse in the hospital setting. And in response to participant demand, the concurrent workshop sessions have been expanded to include nine educational tracks, including the debut of the early-career and community hospitalist tracks.

PHM 2013 is sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the AAP Section on Hospital Medicine (SOHM), the Academic Pediatric Association, and SHM.

This year marks an exciting milestone for pediatric hospitalists: the 10th anniversary of the only national conference dedicated to pediatric hospital medicine (PHM). Although the first meeting might have been just a handful of pediatric hospitalists gathering to better understand an emerging specialty, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2013 will be a bustling gathering of leaders in the now-established field.

New this year are three conundrum sessions and a Sunday plenary session focusing on pediatric overuse in the hospital setting. And in response to participant demand, the concurrent workshop sessions have been expanded to include nine educational tracks, including the debut of the early-career and community hospitalist tracks.

PHM 2013 is sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the AAP Section on Hospital Medicine (SOHM), the Academic Pediatric Association, and SHM.

This year marks an exciting milestone for pediatric hospitalists: the 10th anniversary of the only national conference dedicated to pediatric hospital medicine (PHM). Although the first meeting might have been just a handful of pediatric hospitalists gathering to better understand an emerging specialty, Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2013 will be a bustling gathering of leaders in the now-established field.

New this year are three conundrum sessions and a Sunday plenary session focusing on pediatric overuse in the hospital setting. And in response to participant demand, the concurrent workshop sessions have been expanded to include nine educational tracks, including the debut of the early-career and community hospitalist tracks.

PHM 2013 is sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the AAP Section on Hospital Medicine (SOHM), the Academic Pediatric Association, and SHM.

Dr. Allen-Dicker

Josh Allen-Dicker, MD, has received the SHM Boston Chapter’s first HM13 Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarship helped defray Dr. Allen-Dicker’s expenses to attend HM13.

Josh is a senior medical resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has taken a job as a hospitalist starting this summer at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He presented a poster as part of the Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes competition at HM13.

"Dr. Allen-Dicker represents the best qualities in the next generation of hospitalists,” says says Kathleen Finn, MD, MGH, of the Boston SHM Chapter. “We are excited and honored to have him join the field of hospital medicine, and are thrilled we could help expose him to the leaders in the field at HM13."

Dr. Allen-Dicker

Josh Allen-Dicker, MD, has received the SHM Boston Chapter’s first HM13 Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarship helped defray Dr. Allen-Dicker’s expenses to attend HM13.

Josh is a senior medical resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has taken a job as a hospitalist starting this summer at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He presented a poster as part of the Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes competition at HM13.

"Dr. Allen-Dicker represents the best qualities in the next generation of hospitalists,” says says Kathleen Finn, MD, MGH, of the Boston SHM Chapter. “We are excited and honored to have him join the field of hospital medicine, and are thrilled we could help expose him to the leaders in the field at HM13."

Dr. Allen-Dicker

Josh Allen-Dicker, MD, has received the SHM Boston Chapter’s first HM13 Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarship helped defray Dr. Allen-Dicker’s expenses to attend HM13.

Josh is a senior medical resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has taken a job as a hospitalist starting this summer at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He presented a poster as part of the Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes competition at HM13.

"Dr. Allen-Dicker represents the best qualities in the next generation of hospitalists,” says says Kathleen Finn, MD, MGH, of the Boston SHM Chapter. “We are excited and honored to have him join the field of hospital medicine, and are thrilled we could help expose him to the leaders in the field at HM13."

Whether you couldn’t make it to HM13 or you’re bringing back all the energy from the conference back to your hospital, now is the time to start planning for the next national conference exclusively designed for the nation’s 40,000 hospitalists.

For newcomers, HM14 will offer unprecedented access, networking, and CME-accredited educational sessions for hospitalists in all career stages. And for veterans of SHM’s annual meeting, 2014 will introduce two new pre-courses: “Cardiology and Evidence-Based Medicine” and “Bending the Cost Curve,” one of the hottest topics in public health, which will have its own dedicated track as well.

In addition to offering the best CME-accredited educational experience, HM14 will also give hospitalists the chance to enjoy an all-new official headquarters for the meeting: Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Pre-Courses

Enhance the HM14 educational experience, broaden your skills, and earn additional CME credits. Choose from one of the following HM-focused topics:

• Medical Procedures for the Hospitalist;
• Portable Ultrasound for the Hospitalist;
• Perioperative Medicine;
• ABIM Maintenance of Certification;
• Practice Management;
• Neurology;
• Cardiology (new); and
• Evidence-Based Medicine (new).

Content Areas

The educational tracks offered at HM14 enable attendees to take courses in various designated tracks designed to better focus and enrich the annual meeting for attendees.

Tracks focus on the following cutting-edge content areas:

• Clinical;
• Rapid Fire;
• Practice Management;
• Academic/Research;
• Quality;
• Bending the Cost Curve (new);
• Pediatric;
• Potpourri;
• Comanagement; and
• Workshops.

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

HM14 HEADQUARTERS: THE MANDALAY BAY HOTEL & CASINO

Enjoy casual elegance and comfort in the main tower’s rooms and suites, or relax in unparalleled sophistication and style at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. At HM14 in March, hospitalists will:

• Bask in ultimate aquatic relaxation at the unforgettable, 11-acre Mandalay Bay Beach;
• Explore the Shark Reef Aquarium, featuring more than 2,000 exotic animals in a breathtaking 1.6-million-gallon habitat; and
• Taste the variety of foods at the 20-plus restaurants Mandalay Bay has to offer, including beach dining.

Whether you couldn’t make it to HM13 or you’re bringing back all the energy from the conference back to your hospital, now is the time to start planning for the next national conference exclusively designed for the nation’s 40,000 hospitalists.

For newcomers, HM14 will offer unprecedented access, networking, and CME-accredited educational sessions for hospitalists in all career stages. And for veterans of SHM’s annual meeting, 2014 will introduce two new pre-courses: “Cardiology and Evidence-Based Medicine” and “Bending the Cost Curve,” one of the hottest topics in public health, which will have its own dedicated track as well.

In addition to offering the best CME-accredited educational experience, HM14 will also give hospitalists the chance to enjoy an all-new official headquarters for the meeting: Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Pre-Courses

Enhance the HM14 educational experience, broaden your skills, and earn additional CME credits. Choose from one of the following HM-focused topics:

• Medical Procedures for the Hospitalist;
• Portable Ultrasound for the Hospitalist;
• Perioperative Medicine;
• ABIM Maintenance of Certification;
• Practice Management;
• Neurology;
• Cardiology (new); and
• Evidence-Based Medicine (new).

Content Areas

The educational tracks offered at HM14 enable attendees to take courses in various designated tracks designed to better focus and enrich the annual meeting for attendees.

Tracks focus on the following cutting-edge content areas:

• Clinical;
• Rapid Fire;
• Practice Management;
• Academic/Research;
• Quality;
• Bending the Cost Curve (new);
• Pediatric;
• Potpourri;
• Comanagement; and
• Workshops.

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

HM14 HEADQUARTERS: THE MANDALAY BAY HOTEL & CASINO

Enjoy casual elegance and comfort in the main tower’s rooms and suites, or relax in unparalleled sophistication and style at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. At HM14 in March, hospitalists will:

• Bask in ultimate aquatic relaxation at the unforgettable, 11-acre Mandalay Bay Beach;
• Explore the Shark Reef Aquarium, featuring more than 2,000 exotic animals in a breathtaking 1.6-million-gallon habitat; and
• Taste the variety of foods at the 20-plus restaurants Mandalay Bay has to offer, including beach dining.

Whether you couldn’t make it to HM13 or you’re bringing back all the energy from the conference back to your hospital, now is the time to start planning for the next national conference exclusively designed for the nation’s 40,000 hospitalists.

For newcomers, HM14 will offer unprecedented access, networking, and CME-accredited educational sessions for hospitalists in all career stages. And for veterans of SHM’s annual meeting, 2014 will introduce two new pre-courses: “Cardiology and Evidence-Based Medicine” and “Bending the Cost Curve,” one of the hottest topics in public health, which will have its own dedicated track as well.

In addition to offering the best CME-accredited educational experience, HM14 will also give hospitalists the chance to enjoy an all-new official headquarters for the meeting: Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Pre-Courses

Enhance the HM14 educational experience, broaden your skills, and earn additional CME credits. Choose from one of the following HM-focused topics:

• Medical Procedures for the Hospitalist;
• Portable Ultrasound for the Hospitalist;
• Perioperative Medicine;
• ABIM Maintenance of Certification;
• Practice Management;
• Neurology;
• Cardiology (new); and
• Evidence-Based Medicine (new).

Content Areas

The educational tracks offered at HM14 enable attendees to take courses in various designated tracks designed to better focus and enrich the annual meeting for attendees.

Tracks focus on the following cutting-edge content areas:

• Clinical;
• Rapid Fire;
• Practice Management;
• Academic/Research;
• Quality;
• Bending the Cost Curve (new);
• Pediatric;
• Potpourri;
• Comanagement; and
• Workshops.

Brendon Shank is SHM’s associate vice president of communications.

HM14 HEADQUARTERS: THE MANDALAY BAY HOTEL & CASINO

Enjoy casual elegance and comfort in the main tower’s rooms and suites, or relax in unparalleled sophistication and style at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. At HM14 in March, hospitalists will:

• Bask in ultimate aquatic relaxation at the unforgettable, 11-acre Mandalay Bay Beach;
• Explore the Shark Reef Aquarium, featuring more than 2,000 exotic animals in a breathtaking 1.6-million-gallon habitat; and
• Taste the variety of foods at the 20-plus restaurants Mandalay Bay has to offer, including beach dining.