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. 2022 Apr 13;22(1):278.
doi: 10.1186/s12909-022-03356-0.

Characteristics, satisfiers, development needs, and barriers to success for early-career academic hospitalists

Shradha A Kulkarni  1 , Margaret C Fang  2 , Jeffrey J Glasheen  3 , Vikas Parekh  4 , Bradley A Sharpe  2
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Characteristics, satisfiers, development needs, and barriers to success for early-career academic hospitalists

Shradha A Kulkarni et al. BMC Med Educ. .

Abstract

Background: Academic hospitalists engage in many non-clinical domains. Success in these domains requires support, mentorship, protected time, and networks. To address these non-clinical competencies, faculty development programs have been implemented. We aim to describe the demographics, job characteristics, satisfiers, and barriers to success of early-career academic hospitalists who attended the Academic Hospitalist Academic (AHA), a professional development conference from 2009 to 2019.

Methods: Survey responses from attendees were evaluated; statistical analyses and linear regression were performed for numerical responses and qualitative coding was performed for textual responses.

Results: A total of 965 hospitalists attended the AHA from 2009 to 2019. Of those, 812 (84%) completed the survey. The mean age of participants was 34 years and the mean time in hospitalist practice was 3.2 years. Most hospitalists were satisfied with their job, and teaching and clinical care were identified as the best parts of the job. The proportion of female hospitalists increased from 42.2% in 2009 to 60% in 2019 (p = 0.001). No other demographics or job characteristics significantly changed over the years. Lack of time and confidence in individual skills were the most common barriers identified in both bedside teaching and providing feedback, and providing constructive feedback was an additional challenge identified in giving feedback.

Conclusions: Though early-career hospitalists reported high levels of job satisfaction driven by teaching and clinical care, barriers to success include time constraints and confidence. Awareness of these factors of satisfaction and barriers to success can help shape faculty development curricula for early-career hospitalists.

Keywords: Bedside teaching; Faculty development; Feedback; Hospital medicine; Medical education.

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Conflict of interest statement

JJG, VP, and BAS would like to declare that honoraria were provided by Society of General Internal Medicine and Society of Hospital Medicine for role as co-course director of Academic Hospitalist Academy.

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Female participation in AHA. *dotted line indicates linear regression trend line
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