In This Month's Issue

In this issue, Lypson, SGIM President, reflects on SGIM history to address COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and plans for the future, while Bass, SGIM CEO, and Gerrity, chair of SGIM’s Philanthropy Committee, also look ahead on bolstering SGIM’s community through the Forging Our Future program. Anampa-Guzmán, a medical student, courageously shares her experiences as a physician mental health and neurodiversity advocate. Torres-Deas and Moise call for greater attention to the link between physician well-being and patient well-being in their perspective. As one example, Malik, et al, share preliminary findings linking physician perceptions of e-cigarette use and advice given about using them as tobacco cessation tools. Miller offers a guide for primary care physicians to seek key competencies in a behavioral health clinician who can be a part of an integrated primary care team, while D’Amico, et al, describe the importance of screening for and addressing adverse childhood experiences among patients.

SGIM members excel at directly and deftly disrupting stigma-perpetuating barriers to well-being, including social and workplace injustices, using the tools of our trade: scientific evidence, expertise, and professionalism, weaved together by our shared human experiences and commonalities. Although 2022 is just around the corner, there is still so much more to be done to advance physician and patient mental health and well-being. Let’s be sure to keep going forward together, with and for each other and for our patients!

From the Editor

Be a Better Leader—Make a Difference for Those Around You

Michael Landry, MD, MSc, FACP, Editor in Chief, SGIM Forum
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Featured Column

Highlights of the SGIM 2025 Annual Meeting: Celebrating Our Transformational Ideas and Enacting Meaningful Change

Thomas Radomski, MD, MS; Dominique Cosco, MD
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The Hybrid General Internist: A Novel Solution to Declining Interest in Primary Care

Rae Witt, MD; Jana Wardian, PhD, MSW; Victoria Kennel, PhD; Jennifer Parker, MD; Chelsea Navarrette, MD
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Expectations and Champions Matter in Medicine

Deborah M. Oyeyemi, MD
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Other Articles

An Unusual Case of Post-operative Weakness: Recognizing Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Rachel Akers, MS; Sara Chitlik, BA; Michelle Sweet, MD
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Building the Rungs: Using Change Management to Accelerate Academic Promotions at a Community Academic Hospital

Anjali A. Nigalaye, MD, MBA; Matthew A. Weissman, MD, MBA
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Responding to the Sacred: Meaningful Moments in the Lives of Our Patients

Robert Jordan Hall, MD
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Yale Primary Care’s CHAMP: The Case for Addiction Medicine Training Tracks

Kenneth L. Morford, MD, FASAM
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Q & A with SGIM’s CEO and President about the Importance of SGIM’s External Relations in Disruptive Times

Eric B. Bass, MD, MPH; Jada Bussey-Jones, MD, MACP
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