Diversity in Medicine
News
Comorbidities larger factor than race in COVID ICU deaths?
Career
Mentoring is key to growing women’s leadership in medicine
Women report having a mentor less frequently than their male counterparts across all medical specialties.
Career
Hospitals must identify and empower women leaders
Women should engage with male allies to build a pipeline of mentorship and sponsorship to help identify future leaders.
Perspectives
Tolerance in medicine
Education is part of our job as health care professionals but judgment is not.
Perspectives
Embedding diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in hospital medicine
Hospitalists have significant work ahead to ensure that we develop and maintain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.
Career
PHM 2021: Achieving gender equity in medicine
COVID-19 is causing immense stress on women in medicine and the impact could be disastrous.
Practice Management
Move from awareness to action to combat racism in medicine
Calls to action to address structural racism include learning from policies, prioritizing voting, and educating children.
News
Bullying in academic medicine rife, underreported
“We found that bullies are commonly men and senior consultants, while more than half of their victims are women,” said Dr. Harriette G.C. Van...
Perspectives
“Enough English” to be at risk
One way to bypass language barriers is to recognize the value added by hiring and training bilingual health care providers.
SHM Converge
Improving racial and gender equity in pediatric HM programs
Be wary of conscious biases and the mental burden placed unfairly on underrepresented minorities in your institution.