INTRODUCTION As an emerging and rapidly growing specialty, academic hospitalists face unique challenges in career advancement. Key mentoring needs, especially developing reputation and relationships outside of their institution are often challenging. METHODS We describe the structure of a novel Visiting Professorship in Hospital Medicine Program. It utilizes reciprocal exchanges of hospitalis...

Jeffrey R. Dichter is the current president of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the leading organization and voice for hospitalists, developed specifically to support and enhance the practice of hospital medicine and the delivery of healthcare to hospitalized patients. SHM (formerly known as the National Association of Inpatient Physicians) is affiliated with the American College of Phys...

BACKGROUND Academic hospital medicine (AHM) groups continue to grow rapidly, driven largely by clinical demands. While new hospitalist faculty usually have strong backgrounds in clinical medicine, they often lack the tools needed to achieve excellence in the other aspects of a faculty career, including teaching, research, quality improvement, and leadership skills. OBJECTIVE To develop and im...

OBJECTIVES To examine factors influencing promotion to hospital consultant. DESIGN Multivariate logistic regression analysis of NHS administrative data between 1991 and 2000. SETTING Hospitals in NHS Scotland. Population All registrars, senior registrars, and specialist registrars in Scotland. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The proportion of doctors promoted to NHS consultant. RESULTS Compared wi...

Chi-Ming Liu, Tao-Hsin Tung, Community Medicine Research Center & Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University; Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Pesus Chou, Community Medicine Research Center & Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Victor Tze-Kai Chen, Cardinal Tien Hospital; College of Medicine, Fu-Jen Catholic University; National De...

1Faculty of Postgraduate Studies, University of Health Sciences, 3Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, 5Gynecologic Oncology Unit, Setthathirath Hospital, 8Institut de la Francophonie pour la Médecine tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR. 2Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval Univers...

Seok Joon Shin, M.D., Myungshin Kim, M.D., Hyojin Chae, M.D., Ahlm Kwon, M.T., Yonggoo Kim, M.D., Sung Jun Kim, M.D., Hye Eun Yoon, M.D., Dong Wook Jekarl, M.D., and Seungok Lee, M.D. Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul; Catholic Genetic Laboratory Center, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Th...

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Department of Psychiatry, Chonbuk National University School of Medicine, Jeonju, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospit...

a Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan b Faculty of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan c Department of Occupational Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan d De...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Department of Cellular Pathology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton,...