Background: In 2016, there were more than 50,000 hospitalists working in the United States. The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) published ‘The Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine’ as a blueprint to standardize expectations of practicing hospitalists and to inform continuing medical education (CME) programs. We conducted a qualitative study to discover elements judged to be [...]

Background: All hospitals strive for service excellence. In 2014, there were more than 40,000 hospitalists delivering the lion’s share of inpatient care in our nation’s hospitals. No empiric research has characterized hospitalist comportment and communication patterns as they care for patients so as to establish norms and expectations. We set out to establish a metric [...]