Background: Hospital medicine is a growing field, including the subset of academic hospital medicine. Little is known about the characteristics of academic hospitalist programs, leadership, structure and faculty. Methods: A multifaceted survey was developed, piloted and refined to explore and define characteristics of academic hospital medicine. It was sent electronically, with follow up email and [...]

Background: We are a large academic Hospital Medicine Group comprised of over 100 hospitalists at two tertiary care hospitals in an urban-suburban setting. Our group serves as the inpatient attendings for a large internal medicine residency program, leads robust co-management services (trauma surgery, ENT, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, psychiatry, & urology), and cares for a [...]

Background: Hospital Medicine continues to grow as a specialty and hospital medicine programs are rapidly expanding to meet this demand. One of the challenges of a rapidly growing program is how to onboard our new hires in a way that ensures their satisfaction and at the same time preserves engagement in a rapidly growing group. Purpose: The aim [...]