BACKGROUND: The hospitalist model of inpatient care has been rapidly expanding over
the last decade, with significant growth related to the quality and efficiency of care provision …

BACKGROUND The seminal article that coined the term hospitalist, published in 1996,
attributed the role of the hospitalist to enhancing throughput and cost reduction, primarily …

Core Competencies) to help define the role and expectations of hospitalists. 1, 2 The Core
Competencies provided a framework for evaluating clinical skills and professional expertise …

Methods: The chiefs of hospital medicine at five hospitals were asked to identify their
“clinically best” hospitalists. Data collection, in the form of one-on-one interviews, was …

The hospitalist movement represents a novel paradigm of health care delivery in the USA, its
evolution hastened by a variety of financial, clinical, and time pressures. Hospitalists are site …

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 opportunity to serve as an educator is a top reason that residency graduates choose
careers in academic hospital medicine. 1 Hospitalists are often primary clinical educators to …

All levels of medical education will require modification to address the challenges in health
care practice brought about by managed care. Because preparation for practice in a …

Hospitalists serve as physicians-of-record for hospitalized patients after accepting “hand-
offs” from primary care physicians (PCPs). Patients return to their PCPs at the time of …

Hospitalists are the most rapidly growing group of providers in the United States; in a few
years, there will be more hospitalists than cardiologists in the US While early growth in the …