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Trends and Benefits for Hospitalists, and How They Help With Recruitment and Retention
- Jun 25, 2025
Every incentive counts when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent. In particular, today’s hospitalists view funding for continuing medical education (CME) and getting paid time off (PTO) as some of the most important benefits.
Empowering Growth: The Impact of Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Coaching on Career Development
- Jun 11, 2025
Having a mentor increases career satisfaction, improves retention, enhances career goals, and augments academic productivity. “A sponsor talks about you, a mentor talks to you, and a coach talks with you.”
Cognitive load in hospital medicine: Implications for teachers, learners, and programs
- May 1, 2025
Practicing medicine is cognitively demanding. One must recall and integrate vast knowledge into care, often in fast-paced, chaotic environments. Our brains can only work so hard—and if we are overwhelmed, we do not learn effectively. This is why the days we are pushed beyond our capacity end up a blur and contribute less to learning.
Prevalence of burnout and impact of workload on physician wellness: A cross-sectional survey of hospitalists in British Columbia, Canada
- Feb 6, 2025
Hospitalists in British Columbia care for a large percentage of hospitalized patients across 21 acute care facilities. We aimed to characterize the demographic and work attributes of the workforce and to understand levels of burnout and the relationship between workload and job satisfaction.
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Guiding while growing: The dual role of early career mentors
- Jan 23, 2025
Early career physicians often ask me for guidance on when they should venture into mentorship. Serving as a scholarship or research mentor at an early career stage is both challenging and rewarding.
Put away the shoe polish: Strengthen a learning culture by embracing vulnerability
- Oct 23, 2024
JHM's Editor-in-Chief encourages leaders to embrace the opportunity within vulnerability. He provides tips for leading by example and encouraging vulnerability to build trust within employees.
Domains of professional fulfillment for pediatric hospital medicine: A concept mapping study
- Oct 26, 2023
We know little about how pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) physicians conceptualize their professional fulfillment (PF). Learn more about a study conducted to determine how PHM physicians conceptualize PF.
PCP Shortage Affects Hospitalists; What are the Options?
- Oct 5, 2023
With worsening doctor shortages expected in many areas of medicine, including hospital medicine, the expected shortfall in primary care doctors is particularly sobering.
Leadership & professional development: Moving on
- Aug 10, 2023
It can be natural to feel a sense of diminishing self-worth as a career winds down and it is important to implement strategies to counteract such feelings.
Becoming a Well-being Advocate
- Jul 12, 2023
This article discusses the impacts of Covid-19 on Hospitalists and ways we can support first hand.
Reducing Mental Health Care Barriers for Hospitalists
- Jul 5, 2023
Through education, policy making, and organizational advocacy, hospitalists can help increase access to mental health for physicians.
How Hospitals are Tackling Violence
- Apr 12, 2023
Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers suffered more workplace injuries as a result of violence than any other profession, with approximately 654,000 harmed annually, according to American Hospital Association studies.
Using Ikigai to Find Your “Something” as a Hospitalist
- Feb 15, 2023
By asking ourselves and reflecting on four key questions, we can use our answers to find the joy, meaning, purpose, and fulfillment we seek.
What Happens When Leaders Burnout? Nine Ways to Counter Leadership Burnout
- Jan 25, 2023
The good news is that there are tangible and effective ways to address leadership burnout.
Hospitalists Join in Sustainability Efforts
- Jan 4, 2023
A growing number of hospitals and their hospitalists are seeking ways to contribute to the conversation about sustainability and environmental stewardship for their facilities and the larger world.
Scrubs or No Scrubs?
- Dec 21, 2022
It’s a question more and more physicians are asking–scrubs or no scrubs?
Books for the Hospitalist’s Soul
- Nov 23, 2022
Complementary to mentorship and experiential learning, select professional-development books can help early-career hospitalists acquire the necessary skills to fulfill their myriad responsibilities.
The Blueprint for Overcoming Burnout Exists
- Nov 2, 2022
As a hospitalist, I witnessed how this phenomenon was exacerbated by a global pandemic, which placed a collective strain on our health system and its workers.
Rethinking Hospitalist Work: Reimagining Workforce Goals
- Oct 5, 2022
The speakers at this Converge session focused on the inadequacies of current measures of hospitalist workload and how these inadequacies can lead to worsened outcomes. They then proposed a new model for assessing workload that could be used for staffing strategies.
