Thanks for the Memories

SHM is just completing the Core Curriculum for Hospital Medicine, which will define the knowledge base for our specialty and serve as the basis for SHM’s growing educational enterprise. SHM is defining the value that hospitalists add beyond just direct patient care. This phenomenon has been the basis for hospitals looking for innovative ways to grow and support their hospital medicine groups. SHM will publish these white papers for hospitalists and hospital executives to use in designing their hospital medicine programs.

SHM has defined the productivity and compensation data for our specialty in our biannual surveys that are the best source for hospitalist data. SHM has developed a Washington presence and is defining the advocacy issues for hospital medicine, including substantial reform of payment to de-emphasize compensation based solely on the unit of the visit or the procedure.

SHM is now an organization with almost $3 million in assets, completely autonomous, and functioning on its own. We have a strong and growing relationship with ACP, and SHM has reached out to partner with many other organizations, including the AHA, ACCP, JCAHO, RWJ, Hartford Foundation, CDC, AACN, ASHP, ABIM, AAP, SGIM, AAIM and many others.

Future

And there is much to look forward to in the next 5 years. In the coming months, SHM will launch the first journal in hospital medicine in January 2006. SHM’s Web site will come into the 21st century with the ability for each member to have their own Web page. The Web site will be the one location that hospitalists can come to for CME and other educational information. SHM will be working with AACP, AACN, ASHP, and others to establish an Acute Care Collaborative, reorganizing hospital workflow to deliver measurable higher-quality health care using interdisciplinary teams of health professionals. This will help to define the hospital of the future.

There will be a certification for hospitalists in the near future. This will define how hospitalists add value and how we are different from other internists, pediatricians, and family practitioners. SHM will also be using the Core Curriculum to not only drive SHM post-graduate education, but to help redefine residency training to produce more and better-trained individuals for a future that includes 30,000 to 40,000 hospitalists.

This has been quite a ride in the last 5 years. I have been fortunate enough to have had a front row seat. And I am not going anywhere soon. This is way too much fun. I just wanted to share with you a few others who have been instrumental in growing SHM.

A Special Thank You to Those Who Did the Work

SHM Presidents

John Nelson

Win Whitcomb

Bob Wachter

Ron Angus

Mark Williams

Jeff Dichter

Jeanne Huddleston

SHM Board Members (in addition to all Presidents)

Bill Atchley

Brad Flansbaum

David Zipes

Diane Craig

Herb Rogove

Jan Merin

Lisa Kettering

Mark Aronson

Mary Jo Gorman

Mike Ruhlen

Mitch Wilson

Pat Cawley

Peter Lindenauer

Richard Slataper

Russ Holman

Steve Pantilat

Editors, The Hospitalist

Scott Flanders

Jim Pile

Committee & Council Chairs (in addition to Board members)

Alpesh Amin

Andy Auerbach

Don Krause

Jack Percelay

Joe Li

Lakshmi Halasyamani

Mike Pistoria

Natalie Correia

Neil Kripalani

Preetha Basaviah

Sanjay Saint

Shaun Frost

Stacy Goldsholl

Sylvia McKean

Teresa Jones

Tim Cornell

Vineet Arora

SHM Staff

Angela Musial

Erica Pearson

Jane Mihelic

Kevin Stevens

Marie Francois

Marilyn Rivera

Michelle D’Agostino

Vera Bensch

Vernita Jackson

Veronica BeUs

Joe Miller

Tina Budnitz