Academic Hospitalist Interest Group

Hello— Our traditional teaching service weeks count for less money than direct care weeks. They are considered less time-intensive than direct care weeks. Although certainly there is an argument to be made they are quite intense in other ways. There ...

Hello all, We've done both since our inception. Time on counts the same in our group and no differential for teaching v. Direct care as often while there is coverage the time involved amounts to about the same (notes, teaching, continued pages from ...

FYI, we have three nocturnists - one admitting, one covering the non-teaching service (who is a PA about 60% of the nights), and one covering Neuroscience and emergent overnight consults. Maximum coverage gap is 30 minutes in the morning (nocturnists ...

David As we are moving to introduce non-teaching teams, I have been struggling with how to do this also. As Randy stated, I envision the direct care teams to have fewer patients, so that kind of offsets the patient workload. The challenge for me is ...

Our direct care attendings carry fewer patients (max 12) than our teaching teams (target 16, max 20), so we consider them equivalent. ------------------------------ Randy Goldberg, MD MPH FACP FHM Westchester Medical Center Valhalla, NY randy.goldberg@wmchealth.org ...