SPECIAL REPORT: 2023 COMPENSATION & CAREER GUIDE

WHILE DATA from the 2023 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey show that hospitalist pay remained relatively flat this year, conversations with hospitalists and consultants provide a more nuanced picture of pay for the specialty. Through charts from our survey and interviews with experts, see what trends in hospitalist pay look like across the country and within different types of hospitalist practice settings. READ MORE HERE.

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A look at nocturnist pay, workload, schedules and satisfaction

WHAT DO AVERAGE nocturnists working in U.S. hospitals earn, how many shifts a month do they work and how many patient encounters do they...
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Crafting an electronic alert in the hospital?

JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN doesn't necessarily mean you should. That's the object lesson that Michael Maniaci, MD, enterprise physician lead for Mayo Clinic’s hospital...
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Outsourcing telenocturnist coverage

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Telehealth services: rural admissions and post-discharge visits

WITH ITS MAIN campus in Gainesville, Ga., Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) has an employed hospitalist group that numbers about 100. Within the five-hospital...
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