September 2024

September celebrates Women In Medicine month! SGIM Forum recognizes our female SGIM members with several articles in the September issue. Dr. Cioletti and colleagues spotlight the strong history of the Women’s Caucus as they celebrate 40 years of activity within SGIM. They provide history lessons on where the Women’s Caucus started, contributions from the Caucus and the ensuing growth in membership of female members. Dr. Farkas and colleagues offer their perspective on Women’s Health and ponder whether the time is now to reconsider how we treat female patients as well as how we teach and align women’s healthcare. This month's Editorial includes a quiz that challenges SGIM members to identify Women who have made a difference in Medicine. See if you can get a perfect score.

In her President's Column, Dr. Bussey-Jones reminds us that primary care is undervalued. She highlights efforts by ACLGIM and workgroups from the Hess Institute that are strategizing on filling primary care gaps with early and intentional exposure of students to primary care learning. SGIM CEO, Dr. Bass has a question-and-answer session with Dr. Mladenovic, President and Founder of Gender Equity in academic Medicine and Science (GEMS) Alliance. Dr. Mladenovic describes her organization, which SGIM recently joined.

The SGIM Forum Editorial team shares two articles on regional activities focusing on the Regional Bite Size Teaching Award Winners. In the first of the two articles, Dr. Nandiwada and colleagues describe the impetus behind the development of the regional bite size teaching awards and the opportunities for junior faculty educators to showcase skills at regional meetings. In the second article, Dr. Farkas and colleagues interview the regional bite size teaching award winners and share quotes from the winners on their presentations, tips for future participants and what mattered to them in this process. Finally, Dr. Fitzgerald and colleagues share their best practices regarding clinical billing by educating SGIM members on the use of new social determinants of health and community health integration billing codes to create more specificity and increase clinical revenue. Their use of clinical examples creates an easy-to-follow road map that allows busy clinicians to understand the key concepts in using these new codes.