Background: Hospital Medicine has been the fastest-growing field of physician practice over the past two decades in the United States, and hospitalists practice in a variety of institutional and geographical settings. The role of the “academic hospitalist” has arisen in response to the needs of academic medical centers and their associated medical schools and Internal [...]

Background: Hospital Medicine has seen rapid growth since its emergence as an independent field. While internal medicine residency provides robust training for the clinical aspects of inpatient medicine, residents are not always given adequate education and insight into the non-clinical aspects of a hospitalist career. Specialized hospitalist tracks have been developed in residency programs across [...]

Background: Research suggests correlations between career satisfaction and lower levels of burnout.(1,2) Yet, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are less frequently involved (< 50%) in teaching, research, QI and leadership training suggesting opportunities in these realms.(3) To bridge this gap and increase APP career satisfaction, researchers developed a novel framework L.E.A.D. Figure 1 In 2022, L.E.A.D. [...]

Background: The growth of academic hospitalists has lagged behind the expansion of hospital medicine as a specialty, and leaders within the field have called the lack of academic hospitalists a challenge to the academic credibility of the field.1 Previous publications have cited challenges to developing academic hospitalists including lack of access to resources, an absence [...]

Background: Cost associated with diagnostic testing contributes greatly to the rising cost of health care in the United States (Bindraban et al, 2018). There is evidence to suggest that up to 20% of lab testing is unnecessary (Bindraban et al, 2018).Main Line Health (MLH) is a health system in suburban Philadelphia made up of four [...]