A Novel Hospital Medicine Training Track for Internal Medicine Residents: Description and Program Evaluation of the First 15 Years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The growth of hospital medicine has resulted in a parallel growth of hospital medicine training within internal medicine residency programs (IMRPs), but the experience and outcomes of these training offerings have not yet been described.

Objective

To describe the first dedicated hospitalist track and the program evaluation data.

Methods

The University of Colorado Hospitalist Training Track (HTT) is a 3-year track within the IMRP with robust inpatient clinical training, specialized didactics, experiential improvement work, and career mentorship. We collected data on graduates' current practices and board certification pass rates. To further evaluate the track, we electronically sent a cross-sectional survey to 124 graduates from 2005 to 2019 to identify curr

SUBMITTER: Limes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200261 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature