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2007 Forum Issues

 

December 2007 PDF Version

  • ACGIM: Life is General Internal Medicine, in Miniature
  • Annual Meeting Preview: Everything You Wanted to Know About Writing a Research Abstract but Were Too Afraid (or Started Too Late) to Ask
  • President's Column: Learning by Doing
  • Human Medicine: Know the Right Thing! A Civilian's Perspective on Civilian and Military Medical Professionalism (first of two parts)
  • Ask the Expert: In Conversation with Larry Smith
  • From the Regions: "A Brain to Pick, An Ear to Listen, and a Push in the Right Direction": A Student’s Perspective On Building A Mentoring Relationship
  • In Training: Where the Wild Things Are
  • Morning Report: 61-Year-Old Female with Deep Abdominal Pain
  • Policy Corner: VA Bucks Appropriations Trend with Large Budget Increases
  • VA Research Briefs: Successful Approaches to Increasing HIV Testing within VA
  • Funding Opportunities Showcase
November 2007 PDF Version
  • Intraining Housestaff: Quality Improvement's Skeptical Footsoldiers
  • From the Society: New Women’s Health Working Group Will Unite Interest Groups Addressing Women’s Health
  • President's Column: Doctor’s Don’t Just Work for Money...
  • ACGIM: "Managing Up" - Strengthening the Relationship with Your Division Chief
  • Ask the Expert: The Dos and Don’ts of How to Ask Your Chair for a Raise
  • Morning Report: A 27-year-old Woman with Hyperthyroidism during Pregnancy
  • Abstractions: Public Hospitals
  • Disparities in Health Care: The SGIM at the National Medical Association
  • Policy Corner: How Much Federal Money Will Health Services Research Get in Fiscal Year 2008?
  • Funding Opportunities Showcase

October 2007 PDF Version

  • Special Theme Issue: Education In General Internal Medicine
  • Exploring New Frontiers: Lessons In General Internal Medicine
  • Human Medicine: Patient as Teacher
  • President's Column: The Highest Form of Teaching
  • From the Society: Internal Medicine Residency Redesign—SGIM Responds to AAIM Recommendations on Continuity Care Training
  • Innovations In Medical Education: Building Community in the Movement to Improve the Hidden Curriculum
  • ACGIM: Success As An Educator
  • From the Regions: Harnessing Technology to Build Regional Collaboration - The Southern Medical Education Research Forum (SMERF)
  • VA Research Briefs: Internal Medicine Educational Innovation in the Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Morning Report: A 27-Year-Old Woman With Hyperthyroidism During Pregnancy
  • Policy Corner: Training In Primary Care Medicine And Dentistry - Glass Half-Full Or Half-Empty?

September 2007 PDF Version

  • From the Field: Why So Much Avandia in the First Place? The Ethics of Quality Improvement
  • This Month in JGIM: Life Chaos - Impacts on Health and Health Care Utilization
  • President's Column: "The Vision Thing" - Leadership and SGIM
  • From the Society: Council Retreat Report, Summer 2007
  • Abstractions: From Somalia to SGIM - A Path Less Traveled!
  • Ask the Expert: Ethics at the NIH - An Interview with Marion Danis
  • Between Us: That Lurking Shadow in the Distance - Is It...the IRB?
  • Funding Corner: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Program for Substance Abuse Policy Research
  • In Training: An Investment That's Worth the Risk
  • From the Regions: Opportunity from Tragedy - Patient-centered Medical Homes in Post-Katrina New Orleans

August 2007 PDF Version

  • From the Field: Time for Priorities - Remarks on Receiving the 2007 Glazer Award
  • From the Society: Annual Meeting 2007 in Review
  • President's Column: The "Big Tent" of SGIM
  • Policy Corner: The Politics of Universal Health Care - Helps and Hindrances
  • Morning Report: A 61-year-old Woman with Renal Failure Following Colonoscopy
  • This Month in JGIM: Chronic Benzodiazepine Use - Evaluating Impact on the Elderly
  • Photos from the 2007 Annual Meeting:
  • In Training: The Art of the Deal
  • Ask the Expert: The ABCs of CTSAs - Translating Translational Research to a General Internal Medicine Audience
  • VA Research Briefs: Self-management with Chronic Diseases within the VA - Hypertension as an Example

July 2007 PDF Version

  • Human Medicine: Solidarité - We are shocked that he is shocked
  • Between Us: Why Academic General Internal Medicine is Critical to the Health of Academic Medicine
  • President's Column: It’s OK to Get Sick in July!
  • Innovations in Clinical Care: Improving Decision-Support - The Use of SmartForms
  • Morning Report: A High School Student with a Fever and Incapacitating Knee/Ankle Pain
  • From the Religions: Passing the Baton:A Conversation with Outgoing Regional Coordinator Mitch Feldman
  • Policy Corner: You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Program
  • From the Society: Health Policy Committee Works to Transform Members into Advocates
  • Funding Corner: Using the NIH Biosketch as a Roadmap to Being a Credible Principal Investigator
  • ACGIM: A Chief’s Best Day

June 2007 PDF Version

  • Innovations in Medical Education: Transforming Clinical Undergraduate Medical Education- The Cambridge Hospital Experience
  • Funding Corner: True Confessions of a Generalist: How I Became a Disease-Oriented, NIH-Funded Researcher
  • President's Column: Thirty Years of SGIM—Looking Back and Looking Ahead
  • Ask the Expert: Collaborating 24/7
  • Policy Corner: The Politics of Universal Health Insurance Coverage: Are We Likely to Get Closer?
  • From the Society, Part I: New Web Editorial Board Changing the Face of SGIM’s Internet Presence
  • From the Society, Part II: Requests for Action: Responding to and prioritizing the needs of SGIM members
  • Morning Report: Rash, Arthralgias, and Injection Drug Use
  • Abstractions: An Interview with Israel De Alba
  • ACGIM: Negotiation—We All Can Win

May 2007 PDF Version

  • Special Theme Issue: Focusing On Quality - Reaching for Excellence in Patient Care, Education, and Research
  • VA Research Briefs: Performance Measurement Must Begin & End with Understanding How Treatment Benefit Varies Between Patients
  • President's Column: Quality - What is it, and can we measure it?
  • From The Society: Measuring Quality of Care in Complex Patients
  • Ask The Expert: Using Quality Improvement to Enhance Public Health
  • Policy Corner: How Did Health Care Quality Become a Public Policy Issue?
  • Disparities in Health: Disparities and Quality of Care
  • Funding Corner: Research Funding in Patient Safety
  • In Training: Find a Mentor! Experience and Advice for SGIM Mentoring Programs
  • Innovations in Clinical Practice: Relationship Centered Care - A Gateway to Quality
  • From The Regions: One Health Care System’s Experience with Pay for Performance
  • Human Medicine: Glimpses - Quality Health Care from a Patient's Perspective

April 2007 PDF Version

  • From the Society: Funding SGIM's Mission - Membership Dues Aren't Enough
  • Ask the Expert: A View from the Top - General Internal Medicine from the Perspective of a Chair and Dean
  • President's Column: What I Have Learned from IMGs
  • Funding Corner: Getting NIH to Fund Your Research - Persistence, Revision and Success
  • Morning Report: Fever and Rash in a Recent Traveler
  • Policy Corner: The Food and Drug Administration - An Agency Under Fire
  • VA Research Briefs: Meet the New Director of VA's Health Services Research
  • Abstractions: On the Frontlines: An Interview with John Ekstrand
  • This Month in JGIM: Domestic Violence - Are Health Care Providers Screening Patients?
  • In Training: Normal—It Ain’t Just a Town in Illinois
   

March 2007 PDF Version

  • Annual Meeting Preview: GIM Goes Global - The First International Symposium in General Internal Medicine
  • Ask the Expert: What do Editors Want from Authors?
  • President's Column: From Whence I Came
  • Disparities in Health: Op-Ed: A Double-Standard for US Drug Companies?
  • From the Regions: When Should SGIM Regions Take a Stand?
  • ACGIM: 2007 ACGIM Leadership and Management Training Institute - A Preview
  • Funding Corner: The NIH Application Process - Getting Started (Part 2)
  • Innovations in Medical Education: Strengthening the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Medical Schools: A Key Role for Generalists
  • Spotlight on SGIM: Meet Bill Tierney
  • From the Society: ACGIM Chiefs’ Summit Considers Hospitalists’ Roles and the Future of GIM
  • Policy Corner: Living with a Continuing Resolution
  • VA Research Briefs: Innovative Web Portal Provides Veterans With New Ways to Stay Healthy and Informed
  • Annual Meeting Preview: Precourse Offerings
   

February 2007 PDF Version

  • Special Theme Issue: Clinical Practice - Why Clinical Practice is Central to the Mission of SGIM
  • From the Society, Part I: Academic Hospitalist Task Force Update
  • President's Column: The Tale of Lorenzo
  • Morning Report: A Diabetic Man with a Swollen Ankle
  • From the Society, Part II: Highlights of the 2007 SGIM Annual Meeting
  • In Training: Defending the Modern Day Hypomanic Gatherer
  • Disparities in Health: Primary Care Practice in Minority Settings - A Mission and a Profession
  • From the Field: A Day in the Life
  • Ask the Expert: Interview with Larry Ray
  • Innovations in Clinical Care: Diabetes Dashboards — Bringing Population Management to Primary Care
  • Policy Corner: Will Medicare’s Payment Policies Kill Primary Care in this Country?
  • This Month in JGIM: A Purulent Presentation of Pittsburgh Pericarditis
  • VA Research Briefs: Practicing General Medicine in the Department of Veterans Affairs - An Internist’s View
       

January 2007 PDF Version

  • From the Editor’s Desk: Ringing in the New Year - New Publisher, New Features
  • Human Medicine: Snapshots - Home Visit
  • President's Column: The Future of General Internal Medicine
  • Spotlight on SGIM: SGIM Member John A. Rich Named 2006 MacArthur Fellow
  • From the Regions: The SGIM/VA Regional Meeting Initiative
  • Disparities in Health: Clinician-Educators to Shape Global Health Training in the United States
  • This Month in JGIM: Big Brother is Watching: Computers Impact Doctor-Patient Interactions
  • From the Society, Part I: SGIM Financial Update for FY 2005-2006
  • From the Society, Part II: Meet Associate Member Representative Neda Ratanawongsa
  • Policy Corner: Health Policy Committee Reorganizes
  • VA Research Briefs: Implementing a Direct-to-Consumer Campaign to Increase Stroke Awareness
  • Ask the Expert: Sabbatical Reflections