Featured blog post: What is a hospitalist? In search of a definition of hospital medicine
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, December 15, 2009
What is a hospitalist? As a hospitalist, you may have to refer to House, MD, and Scrubs to explain to others what you do for a living. The Society of Hospitalist Medicine, the professional organization with more than 10,000 members, now makes it a little easier now and offers formal definitions for hospitalist and hospital medicine.
Hospital medicine – A medical specialty dedicated to the delivery of comprehensive medical care to hospitalized patients. Practitioners of hospital medicine include physicians (“hospitalists”) and nonphysician providers who engage in clinical care, teaching, research, or leadership in the field of general hospital medicine. In addition to their core expertise managing the clinical problems of acutely ill, hospitalized patients, hospital medicine practitioners work to enhance the performance of hospitals and healthcare systems.
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