Background: Control over work hours and schedule flexibility are important predictors of clinicians’ career satisfaction, work-life balance, and burnout, which are in turn linked to quality of patient care, recruitment, and retention. Additionally, several recent editorials questioned the “7-on/7-off scheduling.” In a rapidly expanding academic hospital medicine group with 63 physicians, the scheduling process is [...]

Background: As patient turnover increases, inpatients and providers may feel pressure during discharge preparation. Hospitals emphasize early daily discharge to improve throughput and decrease length of stay. At our academic center, providers often report feeling rushed in the 24 hours before discharge. Increased work intensity may contribute to burnout for the interdisciplinary team. Few studies [...]