Hospitalist Medicine—Chairs' Perspective of Specialty Status and Training Requirements

Hospital medicine represents one of the fastest growing fields in US medicine with approximately 55 000 clinicians nationally.1,2 Pediatric hospitalists now account for about 10% of the total hospital medicine physician workforce. In October 2016, the American Board of Medical Specialties approved an application sponsored by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) to seek subspecialty certification for pediatric hospital medicine and a procedure for certification was established. As discussions were underway at the ABP, the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs (AMSPDC) sponsored a survey to collect data and poll academic chairs on the roles and training requirements for pediatric hospitalists in this fast growing field and to determine whether pediatric chairs felt hospital medicine should have subspecialty certification.

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