doctor2 Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Just wondering if anyone can shed some light..... thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebouque Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Just wondering if anyone can shed some light..... thanks! By hospitalist you mean a CTU rotation? If you do an elective in general IM, you can do consults whereas if you do it in the CTU you're stuck on the wards, just like your compulsory IM rotation. Peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelLeigh Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 Hospitalists are usually family medicine-trained doctors who care for in-patients with less complicated issues. Internal medicine-trained physicians in most hospitals will either act as consultants on patients admitted under hospitalists or family doctors (or other specialists such as surgeons), or will be the most responsible physician for patients with more complicated medical issues. I don't think there are usually hospitalists in academic centres - here all patients would be admitted under specialists including internal medicine doctors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moo Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Hospitalists are usually family medicine-trained doctors who care for in-patients with less complicated issues. Internal medicine-trained physicians in most hospitals will either act as consultants on patients admitted under hospitalists or family doctors (or other specialists such as surgeons), or will be the most responsible physician for patients with more complicated medical issues. I don't think there are usually hospitalists in academic centres - here all patients would be admitted under specialists including internal medicine doctors. Actually hospitalists are present in many major academic centers. Usually these hospitalists take care of patients on surgical services (they deal with their non-surgical problems) and many even are just admitted to hospitalist services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviathan Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 I've seen lots of ads for hospitalist positions in Victoria and academic hospitals in Vancouver (well, New Westminster) so they definitely work there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JewelLeigh Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Actually hospitalists are present in many major academic centers. Usually these hospitalists take care of patients on surgical services (they deal with their non-surgical problems) and many even are just admitted to hospitalist services. Ah, fair enough...hadn't come across that in my training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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