TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Building, Growing and Managing a Hospitalist Practice A1 - Bessler, Robert A. A2 - McKean, Sylvia C. A2 - Ross, John J. A2 - Dressler, Daniel D. A2 - Scheurer, Danielle B. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - According to the Society of Hospital Medicine, the number of hospitalists has increased from approximately 5,000 hospitalists in 2005 to more than 44,000 hospitalists in 2015. Despite this explosive growth and the fact that the majority of hospitals now have hospitalist programs, not all of them have been successful in establishing a thriving organization that becomes part of the fabric of the hospital. The supply-demand imbalance for hospitalists continues. The etiology for the imbalance is multifactorial. Contributing factors include the small number of medical school graduates pursing hospital medicine continues to be below the market needs and the relative ease of moving from one hospitalist team to another. Couple these factors with the increased level of physician stress secondary to understaffed programs and a continued push on scope of practice with physicians who are younger than those in other specialties and these factors together perpetuate the supply-demand imbalance in the market today. The issues experienced by hospitalists are not unique; other specialties including emergency medicine and critical care have similar challenges with turnover, recruiting physicians and temporary workers. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1137606334 ER -