Background: Hospitalists—even at academic institutions—publish fewer papers than physicians in other specialties. In a 2021 study of the top 25 internal medicine residency programs, 51.4% of hospitalist faculty had zero publications and only 11.7% had been promoted beyond assistant professor (Sumarsano et al); by comparison, a 2014 study of academic cardiologists reported 28.2% were full [...]

Background: Despite equal representation of genders within academic hospitalist groups, more hospitalist authors are men than women (Burden et al). In a study analyzing first and last authors in medical publications from all specialties between 2000 and 2017, only 31.6% of first authors and 19.4% of last authors were women (Bernardi et al). The COVID-19 [...]