Background: Internal Medicine residency is a three-year experience during which second and third year residents are expected to lead a team of first year residents and medical students. This structure has led to many residents finding themselves in leadership positions by circumstance and often with limited prior leadership training. The purpose of this study is [...]

Background: Increasingly, hospitals and health systems have looked to hospital medicine physicians to lead initiatives, locally and on a broader level. At our institutions, two 600+ bed, academic, tertiary care medical centers located outside of New York City, members of our 120-physician hospital medicine group (HMG) are often asked to champion initiatives aimed at quality/process [...]

Background: Considerable resources are expended by academic divisions of hospital medicine (HM) to recruit and retain physicians that will be successful. Despite the high stakes for the institution and candidate, there is a lack of data to guide these decisions. Suppositions regarding what attributes contribute to success predominate. We evaluated the relationship between factors known [...]