The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is an American membership society for hospitalists—physicians and other caregivers who practice the specialty of hospital medicine.
SHM is focused on supporting the hospital medicine industry and individual hospitalists. SHM provides continuing education and industry updates for hospitalists in its monthly publication, The Hospitalist and peer-reviewed journal for hospital medicine, the Journal of Hospital Medicine. In addition to its publications, SHM conducts surveys, prepares written analyses and offers discussion forums that aid in the overall development of the specialty of hospital medicine.
SHM is focused on providing resources, programs and mentoring for quality improvement program for reducing readmissions and hospital acquired diseases while optimizing transitions of care, glycemic control and overall patient care. An integral role of SHM has been the development of policy and position statements to address the concerns and issues of hospitalists and advocating on behalf of hospitalists before government and regulatory agencies.