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 […]