Background: Academic hospitalists engage in multiple and varied career directions, including medical education, quality improvement, leadership, and research. In 2009, the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), and the Association of Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine (ACLGIM) launched the Academic Hospitalist Academy (AHA), an annual conference that […]

Background: As the field of HM continues to evolve, many hospital medicine groups (HMGs) are expanding their scope of practice outside of the care of the hospitalized patient. Our HMG, a 120-physician team working at 2 tertiary care hospitals in the New York Metropolitan area, is no exception. Over the past 3 years, our HMG […]