There are several benefits to going to the hospital and conducting face-to-face interviews. “You should absolutely do an in-person interview when able,” said Murray-Bainer. This gives you an ...

Several local hospitals are moving forward on the hospitalist bandwagon, focusing on full-time doctors who work solely within the hospital, rather than private physicians who come by in the evening to ...

The uniqueness of the hospitalist’s position does not just end at the actual job duties, but extends to the employment contract as well. There are a few key areas that require extra attention when ...

Many hospitals are establishing hospitalist programs to provide more focused care to hospitalized patients and to help reduce length of stay and readmissions. In late August, for instance, St. John’s ...

A growing number of in-demand physicians are seeing patients without appointments, checking up on them multiple times a day and providing comprehensive care. But there’s a catch: You shouldn’t aspire ...

Hospital medicine has grown steadily and dramatically over the past few years, and currently there are about 34,000 hospitalists in the United States. A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine ...

Leon Vangerud breathed deeply as the doctor pressed the stethoscope against his 83-year-old chest and back. "You're not getting dizzy anymore?" Dr. Muhammed Shaikh asked. "Once in a while. Not bad," ...

Change is just about the only constant in medicine, but some patients are surprised when an unfamiliar doctor stops by their room at Foote Hospital. Increasingly, it is not their general practitioner.

Hospitalist-led research is investigating how AI tools affect clinical reasoning, diagnostic accuracy, and workflow, while also defining necessary physician competencies for safe AI use.