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Innovations at St. Mary's Medical Center have cut length of stay in the observation unit and throughout the hospital. Read how it works.
Read about one hospital's series of throughput innovations to manage staffing shortages, an aging population and consistently high volumes.
The goal is to understand when new patients come in and adjust the time for when physicians are available to provide timely care. https://bit.ly/shift-start-times-hospitalists
How common is paid time off for hospitalists?
How common is paid time off? According to our survey, the majority of hospitalists surve—64.3%—receive no paid time off at all.
We are seeking your help: what questions do you want us to include in the 2024 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey? Submit your survey question now. https://todayshospitalist.com/submit-your-survey-question/
Some may call it hospital medicines “dirty little secret." Does this still happen?
Read “Ducking out early? ” and other informative articles in Today’s Hospitalist. Follow us for news & tips in the medical career field.
Different strengths, skills, personalities: A committee sets each shift’s specific rate, so “we all know exactly what everyone is paid. It’s all fully out in the open.” https://bit.ly/different-skills-personalities-strengths
From compensation to shifts and workload, what questions do you want us to include in the 2024 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey?https://todayshospitalist.com/submit-your-survey-question/
“I maybe have a tiny shred of compassion.” A physician looks for a way to come back from burnout.
Read “A doctor's struggle for patient care ” and other informative articles in Today’s Hospitalist. Follow us for news & tips in the medical career field.
After experimenting with different flexible shift options, the with Williamson Health Williamson Medical Center, have turned to seasonal staffing to help right-size the number of physicians onsite.
Read how seasonal staffing helped right-size the number of physicians onsite. The best of many different flexible shift options explored.
For the at the The University of New Mexico - UNM hospital, scheduling software has helped them achieve targeted flexibility with different kinds of shifts.
Read how one hospital's use of scheduling software has helped them achieve targeted flexibility with different kinds of shifts.
At UnityPoint Health - Meriter Hospital flexible scheduling allows the group to capitalize on the skill sets and strengths of different physicians.
Read how flexible scheduling allows this hospitalist group to capitalize on the skill sets and strengths of different physicians.
The hospitalists with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health have been working to understand their workflow. That’s the only way, they find, to maintain adequate staffing and sustainable workloads.
Read how by working to understand their workflow, hospitalists are able to maintain adequate staffing and sustainable workloads.
Read how several hospitalist groups have moved to create flexible scheduling for their staff given the heightened need to reduce physician burnout and improve retention.
Creating flexible schedule to match physician supply to demand makes for faster care and better job satisfaction.
Physicians are charged with both saving lives and preparing patients for dying. Comparing dying to pregnancy can help physicians “soften” the description of this decline. https://bit.ly/physicians-prepare-patient-deaths
How does experience affect pay, how much is earned from extra shifts, what's the average size group. All this and more information on ' careers. https://todayshospitalist.com/compensation-career-guide-survey-articles/
About one third of hospitalists in our survey said they’re more satisfied, but a similar number also said they’re less satisfied. See why here.
When it comes to career satisfaction, nearly equal numbers of hospitalists who were surveyed said they were both less and more satisfied.
A national telehealth company increasingly supports larger hospitals, many of which are critical access hospitals that serve as the spokes affiliated with a main hub campus. https://bit.ly/telemedicine-surge-capacity
What’s the average size of hospitalist groups?
Read “What's the average size of hospitalist groups? ” and other informative articles in Today’s Hospitalist. Follow us for news & tips in the medical career field.
Survey data look at head counts for physicians and nonphysician clinicians in U.S. hospitalist groups.
Data from Today's Hospitalist's survey found that the average size of a hospitalist group that treats adults is 25.7 physicians.
An academic sees night work as a lot more than just a rite of passage for trainees
An innovative program of having dedicated nocturnist attendings whose sole job is to help educate and supervise the residents working nights.
Academic hospitalists work slightly fewer hours, have fewer patient encounters, and they make less money. See more stats here: https://www.todayshospitalist.com/academic-hospitalists-pay-work-hours/ vs. .
The gender gap is alive and well + The relationship between hospitalist experience and pay
https://todaysphysician.com/career-news-for-physicians-2023/
How does work experience affect hospitalist pay? While there are differences in compensation based on experience, they're often not large. See more here.
Work experience and pay: mean compensation figures based on how many years survey respondents have worked as hospitalists.
Telehospitalists increasingly work with larger hospitals to offload census during surge times. https://www.todayshospitalist.com/telemedicine-growing-interest-surge-capacity/
Hospitalists on average get about 11% of their pay from working additional hours
Read “How much do hospitalists earn from extra shifts? ” and other informative articles in Today’s Hospitalist. Follow us for news & tips in the medical career field.
Why then do physicians view this time-honored decline as a series of clustered medical problems, when it really is just someone moving toward death?
Physicians often shy away from preparing their patients to die, but for this physician there's beauty in death if one can tolerate looking.
About one-half of hospitalists have bonuses pegged to a mix of individual and group quality performance.
Hospitalists on average see bonuses of about $40,000. How are those bonuses calculated, and are they group or individual based?
Academic hospitalists work fewer hours and they're (slightly) less concerned about burnout. Here’s a look at what academic hospitalists told us about themselves in our latest survey.
Academic hospitalists vs. nonacademic hospitalists: a look at compensation, shift work, patient encounters and more.
Complaints that threaten your license and what to do about them.
How to prepare for and defend yourself against a complaint - and implied threat to your career - made to your state licensing medical board.
According to data from the 2023 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey, nocturnists do earn more money than their colleagues who work days, but the differences in pay—and other factors like hours—aren’t always as pronounced as you might think.
How many shifts a month do nocturnists work, how many patient encounters do they have per shift and how does it affect salary.
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