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 is a nuanced field that requires expertise in patient care and non-clinical health system topics. While several residency programs have now developed dedicated hospital medicine electives, there still exists a gap in education for medical students as they are only exposed to inpatient care. Additionally, many fourth-year medical students (M4s) interested in [...]

Background: At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4th year medical students can complete an elective in Perioperative and Consultative Medicine. The Farber Hospitalist Division is a unique Hospital Medicine Division in the Department of Neurosurgery that runs the medicine consult service and specializes in neurosurgical co-management at both TJUH Main Campus and [...]

Background: Total joint arthroplasties (TJA) are the most frequently performed orthopedic surgeries in the USA. Given the aging US population, the number of TJA surgeries is expected to grow by 559% by 2060. Additionally, the average medical comorbidity for patients undergoing TJA surgery is increasing, a trend that is expected to continue. Given both the [...]

Background: Though the ACGME dictates that Internal medicine residents should be exposed to the domains of quality improvement (QI) and medical education (Med Ed), most residency programs provide limited opportunities to develop these skills. Furthermore, most existing hospital medicine electives which attempt to cover these topics are 4 weeks in length. Purpose: We sought to [...]