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| Hospitalist Management Advisor |
| May 2008 |
| Facing a shortage, your program must be creative and selective |
| In 1996, when hospital medicine was in its infancy, there were approximately 1,000 hospitalists in the United States. Today, according to estimates from the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), there are more than 20,000.
SHM estimates that the need for hospitalists will continue to grow and could exceed 40,000 during the next five years. "No other specialty in the history of American medicine has grown at this rate," says Eric Siegal, MD, regional medical director at Cogent Healthcare in Brentwood, TN. |
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