Background: Staffing of inpatient medicine services with Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), including physician assistants and nurse practitioners, is becoming increasingly common at academic medical centers across the United States. The various roles filled by APPs have not been well-described in the literature. The purpose of this study is to better characterize how APPs are utilized [...]

Background: Burnout among hospital medicine providers is well known. Advanced practice providers (APPs) are well-established in hospital medicine but there is a lack of data on burnout specific to the physician-APP model. As more hospitalist groups staff a physician-APP model, identifying contributors to burnout is key for ensuring career sustainability. Our academic hospital medicine group [...]

Background: Advanced practice providers (APPs) are among the fastest growing occupations in the US. Onboarding APPs is imperative to ensure adequate training in hospital medicine, but can be challenging given the resources required for optimal training. Team-based training offers opportunities to provide comprehensive onboarding while efficiently utilizing existing staff and resources. Purpose: To develop a [...]