RT Book, Section
A1 Budnitz, Tina
A1 McKean, Sylvia
A2 McKean, Sylvia C.
A2 Ross, John J.
A2 Dressler, Daniel D.
A2 Brotman, Daniel J.
A2 Ginsberg, Jeffrey S.
SR Print(0)
ID 56191291
T1 Chapter 5. The Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine
T2 Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-160389-8
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56191291
RD 2024/04/23
AB Initially,  the  hospitalist  movement  arose  to  reduce  length  of  stay  by  having  dedicated  physicians  in  the  hospital  most  of  the  time.  Over  time,  the  role  evolved,  and  it  became  clear  that  hospitalists  could  improve  the  quality  of  inpatient  care,  promote  patient  safety,  and  educate  the  next  generation  of  physicians.  Although  the  term  hospitalist  was  coined  in  1996,  over  the  subsequent  decade  there  remained  considerable  variability  in  the  definition  of  hospitalist  and  the  scope  of  work  attributed  to  that  role  from  one  practice  setting  to  the  next.  At  the  same  time  that  Hospital  Medicine  leaders  embraced  the  importance  of  evidence-based  care  and  systems  improvement—especially  around  transitions  of  care  and  the  well-publicized  safety  and  quality  issues  facing  hospitalized  patients—they  were  recruiting  physicians  from  traditional  residency  programs  that  had  not  adequately  prepared  them  for  their  new  roles.  In  fact,  the  Accreditation  Council  for  Graduate  Medical  Education  (ACGME)  acknowledged  training  gaps  in  six  main  competency  areas  for  evaluation  of  medical  trainees:  patient  care,  medical  knowledge,  practice-based  learning  improvement,  interpersonal  and  communication  skills,  professionalism,  and  systems  based  learning.