Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Abstract
This Department of Medicine Grand Rounds presentation is another installment of our "Year in Review" Series. This series highlights practice-changing updates in various medical fields, and in this session we will be hearing from some of our experts in General Internal Medicine – Hospital Medicine.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Recognize how hospital medicine is growing as a chosen field for internal medicine residency graduates.
Identify barriers to academic promotion for hospitalists at academic medical centers.
Discuss clinical updates relevant to the practice of inpatient medicine.
Summarize the impact of hospitalists on inpatient value-based care, including performance scores, patient experience, and efficiency.
Debate the impact of early morning discharges on patietn length of stay.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading

Lapps J, Flansbaum B, et al. Growth trends of the adult hospitalist workforce between 2012 and 2019. J Hosp Med. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.12954
Renner CS, Sumarsono A, et al. Scholarly productivity and growth of academic hospital medicine full professors. J Hosp Med. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.12894
Kirubarajan A, Shin S, et al. Morning Discharges and Patient Length of Stay in Inpatient General Internal Medicine. J Hosp Med. 2021;16(6):333-338. https://doi.org/10.12788/jhm.3605

Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This educational activity is approved for 1.0 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:

Ann Perrin, MD, MPH — Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

Michael Simonson, MD, MS — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.