Background: Despite a rapid increase in academic hospitalists, faculty development in academic hospital medicine remains an ongoing challenge. We aim to describe scholarly output and demographics in relation to academic rank distribution and to identify factors associated with academic promotion of a national sample of academic hospital medicine programs. Methods: We extracted demographic and academic [...]

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: Residents in Internal Medicine have traditionally taken electives that prepare or position them well for fellowships. Another purpose of elective time during residency is to expose the learner to career opportunities. As Hospital Medicine grows as a specialty, more training programs are offering electives for residents in this field. However, most elective descriptions that [...]

Background: Scholarly productivity is critical for academic fulfilment and promotion in hospital medicine (HM), but many hospitalists struggle to achieve scholarly success. Protected time (PT) (i.e., non-clinical time that can be dedicated to scholarly activities) is a key facilitator of academic productivity in HM. However, little is known about how PT for scholarship is managed [...]

Background: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the hospitalist workforce, which has been at the forefront, has been further stretched in both clinical and non-clinical domains. Hospitalists have faced increased clinical workloads due to inpatient volume surges, have been asked to lead hospital administrative pandemic responses, and have had to quickly adapt research to the context [...]

Background: : Low patient satisfaction can result in financial loss for hospitals, and potentially for individual physicians or groups and patient satisfaction is known to be lower on academic services.1 Increasingly, Medicare funds will be withheld from hospitals for underperformance in patient satisfaction due to Value Based Purchasing (VBP).  We identified a low performing, academic [...]

Background: Translating academic effort into scholarship and portfolios for institutional awards and promotion is time intensive and can be challenging to incorporate into the daily work of academic hospitalists. Writing accountability groups offer an opportunity to increase scholarly productivity and receive peer support. Purpose: The goal of the VA Hospitalist Writing Accountability Group is to [...]

Background: As the field of HM continues to evolve, many hospital medicine groups (HMGs) are expanding their scope of practice outside of the care of the hospitalized patient. Our HMG, a 120-physician team working at 2 tertiary care hospitals in the New York Metropolitan area, is no exception. Over the past 3 years, our HMG [...]

Background: Considerable resources are expended by academic divisions of hospital medicine (HM) to recruit and retain physicians that will be successful. Despite the high stakes for the institution and candidate, there is a lack of data to guide these decisions. Suppositions regarding what attributes contribute to success predominate. We evaluated the relationship between factors known [...]

Background: As generational gaps between leadership and early-career academic hospitalists continue to widen, acknowledging shifting priorities around mentorship is essential for success of new faculty. We noted decreased engagement with mentorship and scholarship among our junior faculty and sought to characterize contributing causes. We hypothesized that our existing dyad mentorship framework, designed by senior hospitalists, [...]