Conclusions In 1996 Wachter and Goldman, referring to the thenemerging medical
hospitalist model, predicted the growth of the field in both teaching and nonteaching …

Sir William Osler may have been one of the earliest practitioners of hospital medicine (1).
Yet, the recent development of the field can be traced to the choice by some graduates of …

The hospitalist movement, first described in 1996 (1), has grown from several hundred
practitioners to more than 4,000 today. The movement's 2-year-old professional association …

The rapid growth of physicians practicing as hospi-talists has raised a number of new issues
and challenges that need to be addressed to ensure that physicians continue to provide the …

The growth in the number of hospitalist programs over the past 12 years can be accurately
described as explosive. The term" hospitalist" first gained widespread recognition in the US …

One thing seems clear: hospitalists do not appear to be going away. After Wachter and
Goldman first used the term hospitalist to describe a new type of US physician 8 years ago, 1 …

August 2006 marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of an article in the New England
Journal of Medicine in which Lee Goldman and I coined the term hospitalist—an event that …

Hospitalism as a career option is likely to reinforce the emphasis of traditional medical
residency programs on inpatient care; may become an alternative area of emphasis in many …

Many people date the start of the hospitalist field to my 1996 New England Journal of
Medicine article, 1 which first introduced the concept to a broad audience. That makes 2011 …

The rapid emergence of hospitalist care in the United States has been extraordinary, with
more than 20,000 hospitalists practicing today. 1 Several factors underlie this growth …