March 2021


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Switching jobs during a pandemic

Learn the pros and cons of recent changes, and get tips for virtual searching.

Strategies for recruiting NPs and PAs

Two hospitalists share their program's model for outreach, screening, and interviews.

Weighing perioperative cardiac risk scores

Experts explain and compare the available tools, detailing which scores they prefer.

A call to action: Align well-being and antiracism strategies

Physicians have a duty to challenge processes, policies, and procedures that stem from structural inequities.

Nurses key to antibiotic stewardship intervention

Algorithms helped them know when urine cultures were appropriate.

Avoiding, or treating, AKI in cirrhosis

Catch acute kidney injury early in this high-risk population.

De-Mentored

Learn how not to mentor.

Physician advisor as a career path

These physicians help ensure compliance with regulatory issues and advise on medical necessity and documentation needs.

Why to watch your language

Two attendings take aim at jargon, neologisms, and more.

Job switching, recruiting, and more

This issue includes advice on searching for a job during the pandemic and hiring NPs and PAs, a call to action against racism, and clinical coverage of perioperative risk and AKI in cirrhosis.

Malpractice and syncope, heart failure and fracking

Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.

MKSAP quiz on acute kidney injury

This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on acute kidney injury.

Anemia, antibiotic overuse, and more

Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.