Featured blog post: Resident hospitalists in teaching hospitals
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, August 14, 2009
It has been very interesting to me to watch the explosive growth of the hospitalist movement, particularly the use of hospitalists in teaching institutions. At some of these institutions, the residents ARE the hospitalists and primarily serve unassigned patients. However, many (if not most) teaching hospitals also have a large number of private practice physicians on their medical staffs; this is where it gets interesting.
In my experience, private practice physicians often hesitate, if not outright refuse, to have residents see their patients because of their concerns regarding quality, patient satisfaction, and the permanent loss of the patient to faculty practice plan physicians. In these cases, a segment of the medical staff does not have access to a hospitalist program unless it uses the residency program’s “hospitalists.” Sometimes, this will cause the medical staff to send their patient to other hospitals where they can access a hospitalist program without concern. . . Read more of the “Resident hospitalists” post by Kirk Mathews, MBA, at HospitalistLeadership.com.
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