Background: Onboarding for new hospitalist attendings tends to focus heavily on local systems practices, such as the electronic health record, how to engage consultants, and billing in order to ensure clinical functionality. This orientation tends to be impersonal and deficient in the essential skills for a long and fulfilling career in hospital medicine. The importance […]

Background: Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs) are a vital part of a Hospital Medicine Group (HMG). Many NPs and PAs join HMGs directly after graduating and without prior experience in Hospital Medicine. The anticipation of a new position brings many emotions. There is excitement, but there is also hesitation. The introductory phase in […]

Background: As the field of Hospital Medicine continues to grow and evolve, many hospital medicine groups (HMGs) are expanding their scope of practice outside of the routine care of the hospitalized patient. Our HMG, a 120-physician team working at two tertiary care hospitals in the New York Metropolitan area, is no exception. In recent years, […]