Background: Mentoring skills are valuable assets for academic medicine faculty, who support academic excellence including scholarly productivity of the next generation of physicians. But mentoring students and residents in scholarly projects is often challenged by increased clinical, administrative, research, and other educational demands on medical faculty. And since clinician educators rarely receive training on the [...]

Background: Advanced practice providers (APPs) such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants have become an important addition to the hospital medicine team with the growing demand for physician providers. As APPs experience variable exposure to hospital medicine during training, the Society of Hospital Medicine and other governing bodies such as the American Academy of Physician [...]

Background: The field of hospital medicine has grown rapidly since its inception over 20 years ago. In addition to providing vital clinical care, many hospitalists are also engaged in (or interested in pursuing) academic activities such as quality improvement (QI), medical education, clinical research, informatics and innovation, and global health. Mentorship from more senior academic [...]