Chapter Spotlight: Central Texas

They say everything is bigger in Texas—and it appears SHM chapters are no exception.  Take the Central Texas group, which stretches from Waco to San Antonio (anchored by Austin roughly halfway between). That’s nearly 200 miles apart, or, put another way, roughly the length of New Jersey end to end. “It’s both challenging and fun,” said chapter president Hameed Ali, DO, SFHM. “It’s a real combination of urban, suburban, and even rural medicine.” Dr. Ali At its most recent count, this collection of hospitalists treating everything from cowboys to CEOs had 367 members. Dr. Ali, a veteran hospitalist with Baylor, Scott & White Health, says that increasing membership is always a focal point of the chapter. In that regard, he’s thankful for the Texas-sized academic institutions or health systems he can partner with, including Texas A&M University and Baylor University.  “We plug into those up-and-coming in hospital medicine,” Dr. Ali said. The chapter held “a meeting in March [2022] with those residents in internal medicine who were interested in going into hospital medicine. It was a very fruitful consortium…[and] we had quite a few residents who came who were interested, and some medical students who were rotating with some of my colleagues. “We had a panel discussion talking about our experiences from training all the way to being staff physicians and how things are changing in medicine. We got some new chapter members out of that particul...
Source: The Hospitalist - Category: Hospital Management Authors: Tags: Chapters Source Type: research