December 2009 - PDF Version
- At the Starting Line Again: The Emotional Transition to Life as an Attending
- Curbside Consult: Career Decisions
- President's Column: A Thanksgiving Reflection: Can a Generalist Be an Expert Too?
- The Patient-Centered Medical Home and the Care of Older Adults
- Looking Back with Paul Griner
- Point: An Archaic Method
- Counterpoint: Pimping: A Long and Important Tradition
- Morning Report: A 22 Year Old Male with Arthralgias
- Book Review: Every Patient Tells a Story
November 2009 - PDF Version
- Developing a Policy-Relevant Research Agenda for the PCMH
- Ethics and Disasters: Tougher Than You Think
- President's Column: A Thanksgiving Reflection: The Lessons We Learn from Our Patients
- Guide 2 Twitter 4 #SGIM Members: Commons Misconceptions and Tips 2 Get Started
- Microblogging in Medicine
- What Hill Day Meant For Me
- Well, How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Government Involvement in Physician Reimbursements
- Outpatient Morning Report: A Young Man with Progressive Dysarthria
- How Do You Do That? Eliciting Effective Resident-to-Attending Feedback
October 2009 - PDF Version
- Ctrl C, Ctrl V: A New Threat to Medical Practice & Education
- Datasets for Ambulatory and Emergency Department Care
- President's Column: Lessons Learned from Saying Goodbye to My Patients
- Physician Advocacy is Not Demanded by Professional Norms
- Advocacy: Not Entirely Optional
- The Culture of Medicine: How We Can Improve Communication and Save Lives
- Commentary: Open to Discussion
- Editorial: Distributing Patients: The Role of Non-resident Services
- Leadership Development Part II: The Impact of the Henry J. Kaiser Faculty Scholar Program in GIM
- Inpatient Morning Report: A Middle-Aged Man with New Jaundice and Abdominal Pain
September 2009 - PDF Version
- Neighborhoods and Health Disparities
- On Neighborhoods
- President's Column: Looking Ahead: SGIM's Goals for the Year
- How Do You Do That? Teaching Effectively but Efficiently "On The Fly"
- Letters to the Editor
- From the Editor: On Semantics
- Outpatient Morning Report: A Middle-Aged Man with Fatigue and Edema
- VA Update: Educational Opportunities in the VA
- Leadership Development Part I: The Impact of the Henry J. Kaiser Faculty Scholar Program in GIM
August 2009- PDF Version
- 2009 Annual Meeting Debriefing
- Again in the News: Health Reform and Primary Care
- President's Column: SGIM's Position on Health Care Reform: The Back Story
- Update on Health Care Reform: Health Policy Committee Report on Clinical Practice
- SGIM Policy Positions Related to Health Care Reform: Health Policy Research Subcommittee
- Editorial: SGIM and Health Policy
- Rebuttal to "The Bundling Nemesis"
- Counterpoint: Goodson Response to Whittle Rebuttal
- Editorial: A Different Perspective on Malpractice
July 2009 - PDF Version
- Physician Advocacy: It's Academic
- New England Regional Conference: Spring 2009
- President's Column: When Bad Advice is Just Bad Advice: Or Is It?
- Editorial: The Brain as a Diagnostic Test: How to Give Better Care, Save Money, and Use What Nature Gave You
- Response to "The Brain as a Diagnostic Test"
- A Taste of Medicine in Kenya
- Inpatient Morning Report: A 63-year-old Bosnia Woman with Back Pain and Fever
- How Do You Do That? How Do You Give a Great Lecture?
June 2009 - PDF Version
- Editorial - The Emergence of Spreadsheet Dictatorship
- So You Want to do a General Medicine (Research) Fellowship?
- President's Column: Spring fever and Academic Medicine's Own "March Madness"
- How Do You Do That--Part One: How Do You Give A Great Lecture?
- Life as a General Internist at CDC
- Outpatient Morning Report: A 75 Year Old Woman with Paresthesias
- Essay: The Power of Speaking English
- Academic Hospitalist Task Force Introduces the Quality Portfolio
May 2009- PDF Version
- Editorial - Can I Fire My Hospitalist?
- The Various Handoffs: All a Learned Practice?
- President's Column: When Things Don't Go Right: Turning Mistakes into Learning
- How Do You Do That? Finding a Mentor and Making it Work
- Outpatient Morning Report: A 61 Year Old Man with Lower Extremity Edema, Proteinuria, and Microscopic Hematuria
- Practice Innovations at MUSC and Grady Memorial Hospital
April 2009 - PDF Version
- Annual Meeting Update: Plenary Sessions Offer Something for Everyone
- Practice Innovations: Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program
- Presidents Column: Rounding Out the SGIM Year: Highlights from 2008 to 2009
- Point: The Case for Continuity Clinic
- Counterpoint: More Thoughts on Continuity Clinic
- From the Editor: Speaking Up and Standing Out
- Annual Meeting Update: Hot Off The Press: Record Number of Submissions, Top Ten Handout Downloads from Past Meetings and More
- Annual Meeting Update: What Do You Get For the Man or Woman Who Has Everything?
- Inpatient Morning Report: A 42-Year Old Man with Rash and Arthritis
- Society News: Introducing the SGIM Research Dataset Compendium
March 2009 - PDF Version
- Editorial: The Building Nemesis Withing E/M Coding: We Need Payment Reform Now!
- New Perspectives: Coming to the VA
- Presidents Column: Is Primary Care Disgraceful?
- Curbside Consult: Two Mentors Weigh In on a Question Facing Mid-Level Faculty
- Annual Meeting Update: Top Ten Reasons You Should Attend the Annual Meeting
- Editorial: Primary Care to Hospitalist and Back
- Inpatient Morning Report: Middle Aged Man with Hepatitis
- Essay: Meeting in the Middle: Lessons Learned from Community-Based Participatory Research
February 2009 - PDF Version
- Midwest Region SGIM Meeting 2008
- Clinical Advocates: Where are they? How can we get more?
- President's Column: Visit Time Waits for No One: Can Generalists Make Time for Healing?
- Professional Standards and the Limits of Blogging
- Medical Bloggers Do Not Need External Standards
- Outpatient Morning Report: A 72 Year-Old Man With Asthma
- Editorial: Payment Reform for Primary Care: Clinging to Fee For Service or Ready for More Fundamental Reform?
- Editorial: Customer Satisfaction in Graduate Medical Education: Identifying the "Customer"
- What is the Best Home For Hospitalists?
- Editorial: Just Say No
January 2009 - PDF Version
- Point: Continuity Clinic - Aim for Competence, Not Continuity
- Counterpoint: The Core of Continuity
- President's Column: Tuning the Medical Workforce: Counting Proportions is Important But Not Enough
- Inpatient Morning Report: Vertigo and Facial droop in a Woman with Cardiovascular Risk Factors
- Part II: Two Mentors Weigh in on Questions Commonly Facing Junior Faculty
- Point: Promotion in General Academia for the General Internist
- Counterpoint: The Dark Side of "Focus"
- From the Editor: My Top Blogs for General Internists
- In the Era of an 80 Hour Work Week for Housestaff, How Can You Ensure Safe Handoffs?