title: Hospital medicine fellowships: works in progress.
abstract: The field of hospital medicine continues to grow rapidly, and with this growth has come the realization that residency alone may not provide the full complement of skills required of a successful hospitalist. As a result, several institutions have started hospitalist fellowships, new programs with the specific goal of training clinicians to improve hospital care. These fellowships offer diverse approaches to preparation for a hospitalist career, with opportunities for advanced training in clinical care, teaching, research, and quality improvement. This article provides an overview of the programs, explores the choices for trainees in selecting a fellowship, and the challenges for institutions in developing a new fellowship. Although hospitalist fellowships are still in evolution, they will play an important role in the development of hospital medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0131, USA. sumantr@medicine.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Sumant R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Ranji
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Rosenman
authors.forename: Alpesh N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Amin
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kripalani
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D020445:Hospitalists / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce