Letter to the Editor

Hospitalist Physicians as Educators in a Community Hospital: The Trainee"s View

Authors: Sankar D. Navaneethan, MD, MPH, Amit Nautiyal, MD, Khalid Abdel-Gadir, MD, Rakesh Shrivastava, MD, Ganapathi Parameswaran, MD, Michael R. DiSalle, MD, James Haley, MD

Abstract

Hospitalists are playing an increasing role in inpatient care. In teaching institutions, hospitalists supervise patient care and participate in teaching conferences for residents.1 This educational role is well established in university hospitals where residents prefer teaching by hospitalist physicians over General Medicine Unit (GMU) physicians.2,3 That success, however, has not been well studied in community hospitals. In an attempt to explore this in community hospital settings, we surveyed whether residents obtain a better educational experience by caring for hospitalist-served patients or community physician-served patients.

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References

1. Meltzer D, Manning WG, Morrison J. et al. Effects of physician experience on costs and outcomes on an academic general medicine service: results of a trial of hospitalists. Ann Intern Med2002;137:866–874.
 
2. Hauer KE, Wachter RM, McCulloch CE, et al. Effects of hospitalist attending physicians on trainee satisfaction with teaching and with internal medicine rotations. Arch Intern Med 2004;164:1866–1871.
 
3. Hunter AJ, Desai SS, Harrison RA, et al. Medical student evaluation of the quality of hospitalist and nonhospitalist teaching faculty on inpatient medicine rotations. Acad Med 2004;79:78–82.