RT Book, Section
A1 Bessler, Robert A.
A2 McKean, Sylvia C.
A2 Ross, John J.
A2 Dressler, Daniel D.
A2 Scheurer, Danielle B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1137606334
T1 Building, Growing and Managing a Hospitalist Practice
T2 Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071843133
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1137606334
RD 2024/04/18
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.