Internal Medicine Student Education on Direct-Care Hospital Medicine Services: Results of a National Survey

Traditionally, internal medicine inpatient student rotations at clinical sites include teams of students, residents, and an attending physician. With exponential growth since its relatively recent introduction, hospital medicine has an expanding and enduring presence in academic medicine. In 2010, the CDIM Annual Survey found 91.0% of responding programs had students learning under the guidance of hospital medicine physicians.1 Hospital medicine attendings make up a growing portion of internal medicine inpatient teaching faculty and are perceived by trainees as more effective general medicine ward teachers than other medicine or traditional subspecialist attendings.