As a result of multiple disruptors in recent years, Dr. Feeney has observed that residents are seeking greater variety in the ...

As hospital medicine becomes an established career path for trainees, new opportunities are emerging in leadership, medical ...

Urinalysis is the oldest laboratory test ever performed. It is a fast, easy, low-cost test for a variety of clinical ...

The Summer 2025 round of the National Hospital Medicine Writing Challenge will begin Monday, July 7, and registration will ...

During his adolescence in conservative Virginia, Ian Jenkins felt isolated and alone as he began getting in touch with his gay identity. He didn’t know any gay people, and they weren’t portrayed on ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, advances in technology, and new views about work-life balance have all impacted how medical residents learn in recent years. Dr. Barna “Although the evolution of... Between 2012 ...

Clinical question: Can baseline C-reactive protein concentrations help identify which patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are most likely to benefit from adjuvant treatment with... Dr.

With hospital medicine a newer specialty, mentorship has an extra special role, say several hospitalist leaders who have spent much of their careers serving as mentors for others. Mentoring helps ...

A 74-year-old frail man with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease is admitted for severe community-acquired pneumonia. On hospital day four, the nurse reports a new sacral wound ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background: The standard of care for IE has been a prolonged course of IV antibiotics. Recent literature has suggested that oral antibiotics might be a safe and effective step-down therapy for IE.