AI, especially generative AI, is transforming medical education by changing how trainees learn, synthesize information, and engage in clinical decision-making. This shift requires proactive curricular ...

Hospitalization provides a crucial opportunity to support tobacco cessation. A QI initiative introduced a streamlined “ask-and-offer” model to normalize tobacco treatment and promote equitable access ...

CLINICAL QUESTION: Does influenza vaccination prior to hospital discharge improve a cause mortality and rates of readmission for patients admitted with acute heart failure (HF)? BACKGROUND: Influenza ...

Understanding the complexities of health information and traversing the often obtuse, poorly organized, broader healthcare system can be difficult for even the most knowledgeable and educated ...

Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine ...

When, in their classic 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article, Robert Wachter, MD, and Lee Goldman, MD, announced the emergence of the hospitalist concept, they defined it in terms of doctors ...

Now in its 13th year, Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) continues to incentivize hospitals to do a better job of coordinating the care of patients they are discharging to ...

Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total ...

A 45-year-old hospitalist, a familiar face in the system for the past decade, tragically took his own life. His colleagues and staff admired him, and he always had a pleasant working personality.

Foreign medical graduates (FMGs), or international medical graduates (IMGs) represent an important section of the U.S. healthcare workforce. An IMG is a physician who received a basic medical degree ...

With hospital medicine a newer specialty, mentorship has an extra special role, say several hospitalist leaders who have spent much of their careers serving as mentors for others. Mentoring helps ...

Clinical coding is a meticulous task that translates patient notes into specific International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes, crucial for billing and insurance claims.