Background: While academic hospital medicine (HM) has experienced rapid growth, criteria for promotion, especially regarding scholarship, lack data to inform practice. We sought to describe the characteristics and scholarly progression of academic hospitalists who have been promoted to full professor (FP). Methods: We identified FP HM faculty of all medical schools ranked for research by [...]

Case Presentation: The patient was a 54yo male with history of alcoholic cirrhosis, CKD, and depression who originally presented to the hospital for a fall, L orbital fracture, and also developed rhabdomyolysis. His hospitalization was complicated by an NSTEMI and he underwent cardiac catheterization with PCI of an anomalous circumflex artery and placement of an [...]

Case Presentation: A 33-year-old obese woman with no significant past medical history initially presented to her primary care physician with fevers, pharyngitis, rash, malaise, and myalgias for ten days. Her rash was patchy, nonpruritic and worsened with her high spiking fevers. The rash progressed in a centrifugal pattern. She had also developed significant arthralgias in [...]