Background: Hospitalists rely on patients’ family members and caregivers to convey medical history, communicate on the patient’s behalf, assist with decision making, participate in care training, partake in discharge planning and provide support. With the rise of COVID-19 infection rates across the country, hospitals promptly enforced strict visitation protocols to prevent transmission, preserve PPE and [...]

Background: Under-represented minority (URM) physicians, specifically African American, Native American, Hispanic, and/or Pacific Islander, constitute only about 10% of practicing cardiologists. Although concerted efforts to increase diversity may increase the likelihood of graduating minority cardiologists, there remains uncertainty regarding how best to recruit and incentivize URM applicants to apply for cardiology fellowship training. As a [...]

Background: In current times, physicians are working to older ages, lending experience and knowledge that benefits both patient care and education. Recent findings demonstrate advanced age as a risk factor for severe morbidity and mortality from serious acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (COVID-19), placing older physicians at high-risk during the current pandemic. Pediatric hospitalists frequently care for [...]

Background: The ordering of unnecessary daily labs affects the safety of patients through hospital-acquired anemia, patient discomfort, and unnecessary downstream testing. This results in both additional financial and labor costs burdening the health system. As such, establishing effective interventions is warranted with necessary analysis of site-specific lab-ordering culture. We seek to perform this analysis to [...]