Community Pediatric Hospitalist Workload: Results from a National Survey.

As a newly recognized subspecialty, understanding programmatic models for pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) programs is vital to lay the groundwork for a sustainable field. Although variability has been described within university-based PHM programs, there remains no national benchmark for community-based PHM programs. In this report, we describe the workload, clinical services, employment, and perception of sustainability of 70 community-based PHM programs in 29 states through a survey of community site leaders.

The Strategic Planning Committee report: the first step in a journey to recognize pediatric hospital medicine as a distinct discipline.

The field of pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) has experienced phenomenal growth over the past decade. Academic contributions by pediatric hospitalists include the creation of PHM core competencies, national collaborative PHM networks for both research (the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings network) and quality improvement (the Value in Inpatient Pediatrics network), a robust and well-attended annual scientific meeting, and an increasing number of divisions or sections of PHM in pediatric departments across the country. Many pediatricians are choosing to pursue careers in PHM, and several postgraduate training programs for PHM have emerged.