The Hospitalist

The Society of Hospital Medicine and Wiley are happy to announce that The Hospitalist has received an APEX Award of Excellence for its June 2025 issue.

The issue was one of 10 magazines honored with an Award of Excellence ...

Feedback is a cornerstone of medical education and professional growth, playing a critical role in shaping competent, confident physicians. Yet despite its importance, feedback often falls short. Studies show that 50% to 67% of learners find the feedback they receive unhelpful or ineffective, while approximately half of faculty report discomfort with giving effective feedback...

In a city where cover bands are judged on whether they can sell the song in the first eight bars, Steven Chen, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd, opened his Converge 2026 session on inpatient dermatology with an analogous claim: the skin tells you what is wrong before the chart does. Dermatologists, he reminded the audience, do a physical and history, not a history and physical. Start with th...

Picture your team walking out of a patient’s room. You head down the hallway toward the elevator, the doors open, and for a moment, everyone just stands there. No one says anything. That pause, that small, unremarkable window between one patient and the next, is exactly the teaching opportunity that most of us let slip by every single day. Brad Sharpe, MD, FACP, SFHM,...

This talk focused on the role of the unit-based medical director and the skills needed to be effective in this position. Although there are some similarities to other leadership positions, such as division or department leadership, this role has key differences and requires distinct skills and attitudes to succeed.

Unit-based medical directors often have a broa...