Background: Nocturnists often start their positions immediately after residency. It has been shown that early career hospitalists benefit from mentorship for scholarly productivity, academic promotion and personal career satisfaction (1,2). However, as nocturnists typically work at different hours than senior clinicians and service leaders, there are decreased opportunities for informal mentorship, modelling, and visibility. Purpose: [...]

Background: Hospital medicine is a rapidly growing specialty within internal medicine, offering diverse career opportunities in clinical practice, teaching, research, innovation, and quality improvement (QI). As with any other specialty within Internal Medicine, residents interested in Hospital Medicine need specialty guidance, mentorship, and professional development when considering careers in Hospital Medicine. The Hospital Internal Medicine [...]

Background: As generational gaps between leadership and early-career academic hospitalists continue to widen, acknowledging shifting priorities around mentorship is essential for success of new faculty. We noted decreased engagement with mentorship and scholarship among our junior faculty and sought to characterize contributing causes. We hypothesized that our existing dyad mentorship framework, designed by senior hospitalists, [...]

Background: Effective mentorship of junior faculty correlates with future academic success and career sustainability.1,2 Traditional approaches to mentorship involve pairing mid- and late-career faculty with junior faculty randomly or based on compatible interests and allowing the relationship to evolve as driven by the mentee’s needs. After organized attempts to implement mentorship programs along traditional lines [...]