Background: Across the field of Hospital Medicine, there is a “call to arms” to build robust faculty development programs(1). Medical education and clinical teaching are common career interests for early career hospitalists (ECH), defined as hospitalists ≤5 years since postgraduate training. ECH often pursue academic positions to explore an interest in medical education, but find […]

Background: Academic hospitalists have identified teaching learners as the most fulfilling aspect of their jobs. Components of effective clinical education include teaching at the bedside and giving feedback. To enhance and develop the teaching and professional developmental skills of early-career hospitalists, the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), and […]

Background: With the advent of high‐resolution cross‐sectional imaging, incidental findings (IFs) have become an increasingly common occurrence. Though workup guidance is available for a few IFs (such as a pulmonary nodule), there are no guidelines on when and how to work up the various IFs seen in hospitalized patients. This has led to a wide […]

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 […]