2011 Forum Issues

December 2011 -PDF Version 

• Radhakrishnan, P. (2011) From the Editor: Duty Hours and the Cinderella Effects: A Year Later. SGIM Forum; 34(12): 1, 13.
• Usta, Y. (2011) A Resident's Response: Duty Hours: We Are the Future. SGIM Forum; 34(12): 2, 15.
• Selker, H.P. (2011) President's Column: Luck, and When to Duck. SGIM Forum; 34(12): 3-4, 14.
• Chakraborti, C. (2011) An Attending's Response: Look Not to Fairy Tales but to Yoda. SGIM Forum; 34(12): 4.
• Raj, J. (2011) A Program Director's Response: When I Was a Resident... .. SGIM Forum; 34(12): 5.
• Preston, C. (2011) A Policy Makers's Response: A Different View on Duty Hours. SGIM Forum; 34(12): 6-7.
• Fang, M.C. (2011) SGIM Annual Meeting 2012: Things To Remember. SGIM Forum; 34(12): 7.
• Dunn, C.R., Miller, C.S. (2011) Morning Report: A Man With Increasing Abdominal Girth. SGIM Forum; 34(12): 8, 14-15.
• Levine, R., Kim, S., Lin, J. (2011) News From the Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. SGIM Forum; 34(12): 9.
• Guerrasio, J., Rothberg, B., Garrity, M. (2011) New Perspectives: Dear Dean: Why Am I Failing? SGIM Forum; 34(12): 10-12.

November 2011 - PDF Version

• Chakraborti, C. (2011) Editorial, Part I: Why I Write, Review, and Generally Love Clinical Vignette Abstracts. SGIM Forum; 34(11): 1,13.
• Greene, R.E. (2011) Editorial, Part II: Teaching LGBT Health in Medical School. SGIM Forum; 34(11): 2, 15.
• Selker, H.P. (2011) President's Column: Advise and Consent: Community Consultation in Research and Health Care. SGIM Forum; 34(11): 3-4.
• Wright, C., Wright, S. (2011) Policy Corner: A House United: When a Generalist and a Specialist Agree. SGIM Forum; 34(11): 4.
• Szulc, S., Tahhan, S. (2011)Morning Report: The Kindergarten Cop's Morning Report: Is Arnold Schwarzenegger Right? Is It Not a Tumor? SGIM Forum; 34(11): 5, 12, 15.
• Millstine, D. (2011) Limitations of Our Focus of Medication Management of a Disease. SGIM Forum; 34(11): 6, 13.
• Iyasere, C., Wright, D. (2011) Chalk Talk: Thinking about Thinking: Medical Decision Making Under the Microscope. SGIM Forum; 34(11): 7, 10-11.
• Sharpe, B., Hunt, D. (2011) Task Force Update Part I: The Challenge of Cost-Shifting. SGIM Forum; 34(11): 13.
• Paranjape, A., McCall-Hosenfeld, J. (2011) Task Force Update Part II: News from the Women's Health Task Force. SGIM Forum; 34(11): 9.

October 2011 - PDF Version

• Olson, D.S. (2011) Editorial Part 1: The Meaning of Medicare. SGIM Forum; 34(10): 1, 13.
• Radhakrishnan, P. (2011) From the Editor: The Sounds of Medicine. SGIM Forum; 34(10): 2, 15.
• Selker, H.P. (2011) President's Column: Changes to the "Common Rule" : A Chance to Reframe Quailty Improvement Research in Practice.SGIM Forum; 34(10) 3, 15.
• Schutzbank, A. (2011) New Perspectives Part 1: Is Anyone's Time Valuable? SGIM Forum; 34(10): 4, 14.
• Tsai, A. (2011) Mountain West SGIM 2011 Regional Meeting: "Serving the Underserved". SGIM Forum; 34(10): 5.
• Miller, E. (2011) Passage of the Budget Control Act Creates More Uncertainty for the Medicare Program. SGIM Forum; 34(10): 5, 14.
• Nekhlyudov, L. (2011) SGIM Cancer Research Interest Group: A Five-Year Journey Building Collaborations...and Friendships. SGIM Forum; 34(10): 6-7.
• Chakraborti, C. (2011) Editorial Part II: Phantom Menance Prompts Education Reform to Strike Back. SGIM Forum; 34(10): 7, 12.
• Isaacson, J.H. (2011) Committee Update: 2011 SGIM Education Committee Survey. SGIM Forum; 34(10): 8.
• Majeed, A. (2011) New Perspectives Part II: Population-based Risk Reduction for Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease in England.SGIM Forum; 34(10): 9, 12.
• Hanyok, L. (2011) Interprofessional Education: The Time for Collaboration is Now. SGIM Forum; 34(10): 10, 16.
• Jetton, F. (2011) From the Society: Using New Technologies to Communicate with Membership and Beyond: SGIM is Getting a New Website! SGIM Forum; 34(10): 11.

September 2011 - PDF Version

• Teaching How Not to Fumble the Hand Off
• Making the Most of Ambulatory Precepting: Using th Microskills as a Guide
• President's Column: Advocacy: Now We Have a Book on That!
• Maximizing Impact: Using Media Coversage to Disseminate Yoru Research
• Getting Research Covered in Black, White and Color
• Strategic Planning for the Future of SGIM
• Midwest Regional Meeting 2011: "Embracing Changes in HealthCare Reform"
• Morning Report: A Young Woman with Low Back Pain
• The Patient Care Agenda
• Professional/Personal Balance: Balancing Competing Professional Committments: Applying the "Black Shoe Phenomenon" to Professional Life
• Policy Corner: Medicare Part D: The Results Are (Not) In
• From the Editor: Mystery Shopper Program Axed: Why We Should Care

August 2011 - PDF Version

• Life After Residency and How to Prepare For It
• Finding Your Home
• President's Column: Our Message, Our Selves - It's Time For an Update!
• Adoption of the PCMH Model: Perspective From a "Seasoned Clinician" and His Nurse
• Reflections on the PCMH: An Experienced Nurse's Perspective
• PCMH: A Solution for Primary Team Satisfaction
• Chalk Talk: Back to Basics: Nuances and Pitfalls of Blood Pressure Measurement
• New Perspectives: No Single Academic Home
• Why Is A Regional SGIM meeting Important?
• Researchers' Corner: Journal Venues for Quality and Safety Improvement Publications
• Professional/Personal Balance: Wellness for Physicians

July 2011 - PDF Version

• "The Many Faces of Generalism": Wrapping up the 34th Annual Meeting
• The Social Justic Revolution: Role of this Generation of Physicians
• President's Column: An SGIM Family Reunion in Phoenix
• Social Media @SocietyGIM: Evidence-Based Tweeting and Meeting
• The Life of a SuperTweeter
• Doctors as Human Rights Advocates: Room for Improvement
• Protest Against Anti-Immigration Laws
• 2011 Annual Meeting: A Cornucopia of Delights
• Capital Campaign Wrap-Up
• Morning Report: A Woman with Recurring Abscesses
• 2011 Annual Meeting Awardees

June 2011 - PDF Version

• Evidence-Based Practice: What's the Bottom Line?
• Personal/Professional Balance: Advice from a Younger Sister
• President's Column: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: Just a New Name or a New Perspective for CER?
• From the Society: Capital Campaign Wrap-Up
• Clinical Update: Things You Should Know About Buprenorphine and Methadone
• Researchers' Corner: Journal Venues for Clinician Educators
• Morning Report: A Young Man with Epigastric Pain and Anemia
• From the Editor: The Editor's Closing Thoughts Part II
• From the Society: The Clinical Practice Committee's Role in Advancing the Practice of GIM

May 2011 - PDF Version

• Thoughts on the End of Residency
• On Treating Medical Students with Respect: Three Perspectives
• President's Column: Our Role in Health Care Reform: Can We Get it Right This Time?
• In Training: A 28 Hour Retreat for Internal Medicine Interns
• Morning Report: A Young Woman with Abdominal Pain and a Recent Motor Vehicle Accident
• From the Editor: Closing Thoughts, Part I
• Policy Corner: SGIM Hill Day 2011: "See One, Do One, Teach One"
• Essay: The Key to Being a Great Educator: Show Your Work

April 2011- PDF Version

• From the Society: SGIM Taking the Lead in Promoting Education in Health Disparities
• Medicine: The Art Behind the Science
• President's Column: ACO's: The New Frontier for GIM or Deja Vu All Over Again?
• Editorial: Needed: fellowship Trained Academic Hospitalists
• The ACA is a Powerful Endorsement of Primary Care
• New Perspectives: The Patient-Centered Medical Home: What's all the Hype?
• Chalk Talk: Ascities

March 2011 - PDF Version

• New Perspectives: When Doctors Have to Choose Sides
• From the Society: We Hear You
• President's Column: Investing in Clinician Educators
• Annual Meeting Update: Tweeting the Meeting #sgim2011
• Health Policy Corner Part I: Why Are We Still Talking about the SGR and What is it Anyway?
• Funding Corner: Show Me The Money: Funding Opportunities for SGIM Interest Groups
• Reflections: Generalism Redux
• Health Policy Corner Part II: The Role of Congressional Staff: Committee Staff
• Update from the California/Hawaii Region
• Chalk Talk: Measuring Orthostatic Hypotension...Wait a Minute--Or Should You?

February 2011- PDF Version

• How Will the Recent Mid-Term Elections Affect Health Care Reform Implementation?
• The Trainee's Role in Primary Care Reform
• President's Column: Measuring the Quality of Generalist Care: The Need for a New Generation of Metrics
• From the Society Part I: A New Relationship with the VA
• From the Regions: Getting Local Funding for the Regional Meeting: So Much More than Fundraising
• From the Society Part 2: The Value of Membership
• Chalk Talk: Why Grandma Shouldn't Spend Extra Days in the Hospital
• A Journey in Academic General Internal Medicine
• Morning Report: A Young Man with Cough, Dyspnea, and Pleurisy
• Health Policy Corner: The Role of the Congressional Staff Part II

January 2011 - PDF Version

• Grassroots Primary Care Advocacy: From Crisis to Opportunity at Harvard
• Essay: Why Chose Medicine
• President's Column: Reflections on a Week in Cuba
• Morning Report: A Young Pregnant Woman Presenting with Two Days of Confusion and Ataxia
• Researchers' Corner: Authorship: Talk Early and Often
• Researchers' Corner II:
• Datasets for Emergency Department Research
• Improving Access and Continuity
• Policy Corner: The Moving Our Home, Building Our Future