Not Affiliated
Society of Hospital Medicine
In 1996, Robert Wachter, MD, MHM coined the term “hospitalist” in the New England Journal of Medicine. Subsequently, the National Association of Inpatient Physicians (NAIP) was founded, followed by the commencement of NAIP’s first annual meeting in 1998. NAIP changed its name to the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) in 2003. SHM continues to be the only medical society devoted entirely to hospitalists and the hospital medicine movement.
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is a professional medical society representing more than 14,000 of the 44,000 practicing hospitalists in the U.S. dedicated to providing exceptional care to the hospitalized patient.
