Background: Despite rapidly growing interest in hospital medicine (HM), no prior research has examined the attributes that may be most beneficial to applicants during the HM application, interview and hiring process. We aimed to define the specific qualities that HM interviewers seek in candidates, and to assess interviewer perceptions about important applicant behaviors, attributes and [...]

Background: As the field of Hospital Medicine continues to grow and evolve, many hospital medicine groups (HMGs) are expanding their scope of practice outside of the routine care of the hospitalized patient. Our HMG, a 120-physician team working at two tertiary care hospitals in the New York Metropolitan area, is no exception. In recent years, [...]

Background: National data document that hospital medicine groups frequently lack representative diversity in terms of race, ethnic background and gender. This diversity gap further expands with career development and promotion. Traditional physician hiring strategies are susceptible to elements of bias that may contribute to these disparities. Purpose: To design and implement a structured process for [...]

Background: Building a diverse hospitalist workforce is of paramount importance as a growing number of studies demonstrate the value of diverse teams on patient care (reference 1). A 2019 Association of American Medical Colleges report on race/ethnicity data of full-time academic medicine faculty showed that 3.6% self-identified as Black or African American, and 5.5% self-identified [...]