Background: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) program requirements for family medicine permit wide variability in adult inpatient medicine curricula. Family physicians compose a significant percentage of the hospitalist workforce, and the American Board of Family Medicine co-sponsors the Recognition of Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine. Previously published survey data describe certain residency characteristics [...]

Background: The Hospitalist Service of Wellstar-MCG Health run the Family Medicine In-Service (FMIS) rotations. It is a month-long rotation with a team consisting of a hospitalist attending, one or two senior residents, and several interns. A large portion of learning to care for inpatients occurs during these rotations. There currently is no process in place [...]

Background: Procedures, both inpatient and outpatient, are an essential part of the training for family medicine residents. Several residency programs struggle to provide the minimum number of procedures for residents to develop competency and comfort with the said procedures. Hospitalists do offer increased experience with procedures, although more recently, hospitalists are also referring most procedures [...]