Background: Hospital medicine (HM) continues to be primarily composed of junior faculty and research has highlighted a paucity of mentors and academic output. Faculty advancement programs have been identified as a means to support junior faculty in their career trajectories and to advance the field. The optimal approach to supporting faculty development (FD) efforts is [...]

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 [...]