Hi Everyone,
I am a member of an academic hospitalist group that has residents and medical students on all our inpatient teams each day. Our cardiology division supports general cardiology and interventional cardiology training programs, rounding with those fellows plus rotating medical residents and nurse practitioners each day on their separate inpatient service.
Our cardiology service has recently decided they want to become a consultation-only service, with all admissions done by the hospitalist teams. Do any of you, as members of academic hospitalist programs have responsibility for admitting all cardiology patients? We have historically taken CHF, Afib, and chest pain ruling out, but we are concerned about admitting acute MI, severe cardiomyopathy, ventricular arrhythmia, elective caths, and LVAD patients for whom we will have little to no decision-making.
I'd really appreciate any information about the variety of models out there.
Thanks!
Laura Nicholson, MD, PhD
Scripps Green Hospital Medicine Division
Internal Medicine Residency Research Director
Director of Education, KL2 Clinical Scholars Program
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSD Volunteer Faculty
10666 N. Torrey Pines Rd., 404C
La Jolla, CA 92037
Nicholson.Laura@scrippshealth.org
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