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: It is very common for physicians to adopt aggressive treatment strategies when dealing with younger patient populations. This usually leads to more use of resources and often results in better outcomes. Thus, we sought in this study to test such a hypothesis and examine whether the use of resources, aggressive therapies, and outcomes for […]

Case Presentation: A 52‐year‐old previously healthy man with history of prior alcohol dependence and a Billroth II procedure 25 years ago for peptic ulcer disease presented with 100 pounds of unintentional weight loss associated with new‐onset diarrhea over the past 6 months. His diarrhea was postprandial, occurring 20–30 minutes after all meals. Physical exam was […]

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 […]