Family Medicine Hospitalists Three Years Out of Residency: Career Flexibility or a Threat to Office-Based Family Medicine?

Author(s)

Cancino, R, and Jack, B

Topic(s)

What Family Physicians Do

Keyword(s)

National Graduate Survey, Policy Brief Commentaries, and Urgent / Emergent Care

Volume

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

The 2015 and 2016 Association of American Medicinal Colleges (AAMC) Medical School Graduation Questionnaire all Schools Summary Report indicated that 18.4 and 18.9% of graduates, respectively, were interested in hospitalist medicine.1,2 A report released in June 2016 by the AAMC analyzing characteristics of the growing primary care hospitalist workforce between the years 2012 and 2013 indicated that 17.2% of hospitalists identified as family medicine physicians.3 A majority of family medicine physicians use hospitalist services,4 and hospitalists have a significant educational role in family medicine resident training.5

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