Background: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the hospitalist workforce, which has been at the forefront, has been further stretched in both clinical and non-clinical domains. Hospitalists have faced increased clinical workloads due to inpatient volume surges, have been asked to lead hospital administrative pandemic responses, and have had to quickly adapt research to the context […]

Background: Georgetown professor Cal Newport coined the term “deep work” to describe the type of focus that allows high performance on cognitively demanding tasks that is only possible when one is free from distraction. High levels of attention and focus have been tied to increased creativity, improved work satisfaction, and higher quality of work. Some […]

Background: Building a diverse hospitalist workforce is of paramount importance as a growing number of studies demonstrate the value of diverse teams on patient care (reference 1). A 2019 Association of American Medical Colleges report on race/ethnicity data of full-time academic medicine faculty showed that 3.6% self-identified as Black or African American, and 5.5% self-identified […]