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: Self-reflection facilitates the identification of performance gaps and is a critical step in the process of behavior change among physicians.  However, little is known about reflection and its relation to behavior change in hospital medicine (HM) continuing medical education (CME).  Our objectives were to identify associations between validated reflection scores and characteristics of CME [...]