Background: Hospital medicine is a rapidly growing specialty, but prior studies have raised concern that hospital medicine’s research output has not kept up with its clinical importance. The ongoing evolution of hospital medicine into an academic field requires clinician-investigators with dedicated time and funding to support research contributions. National Institute of Health (NIH) Career Development [...]

Background: A frequently cited challenge to parenting as a clinician relates to family leave policies. Taking parental leave may negatively affect clinicians’ income, research, career, and relationships with colleagues. Parental leave policies may be unfair, vague, or poorly communicated. We sought to describe the parental leave experiences and approaches used to support parental leave and [...]

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: Georgetown professor Cal Newport coined the term “deep work” to describe the type of focus that allows high performance on cognitively demanding tasks that is only possible when one is free from distraction. High levels of attention and focus have been tied to increased creativity, improved work satisfaction, and higher quality of work. Some [...]

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 [...]

Background: In 2023, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) proposed changes to Pediatric Residency programs allowing for greater individualization of resident experiences and increased ambulatory care time. The ACGME changes may lead some institutions to expand pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) services to provide coverage of hospitalized children previously cared for by residents. We [...]

Background: Hospitalists’ engagement in scholarship (e.g., research, education) mitigates burnout, yet academic advancement and productivity among hospitalists lags behind other specialties. Gender inequities are well-documented across academic medicine, as evidenced by delayed career progression, lower scholarly productivity, and pay gaps. We aimed to characterize hospitalist interest, barriers, and facilitators to engage in academic activities. Results [...]

Background: The selection of medical specialties by physicians may be shaped not only by their academic interests and aptitudes but also by socioeconomic factors within their families. However, research on the relationship between parental income and specialty choice among physicians remains limited. This study aimed to elucidate the socioeconomic backgrounds of parents across various medical [...]

Background: Healthcare systems in the United States are navigating a complex landscape of financial strain, high clinician burnout, and workforce instability. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the clinical space offers the potential to improve clinical care and productivity but faces challenges like cost, clinician acceptance, and bias. Use of AI tools in [...]

Background: Hospital medicine groups are rapidly expanding with an increasing presence across academic medical centers yet little data exist to identify which models yield the best outcomes for patients, hospitalists and the health system. Poorly designed staffing models can contribute to hospitalist burnout and turnover. We sought to explore hospitalist clinicians’ perceptions of care delivery [...]