Commentary on Association Between Practice Setting and Pediatric Hospitalist Career Satisfaction; Observations From Two Very Satisfied Community Hospitalists

[摘要] We applaud Dr Pane and colleagues for continuing to investigate the question of career satisfaction for pediatric hospitalists. The publication of these findings is timely as we discuss the future of pediatric hospital medicine as a subspecialty. How we train, recruit, and nurture future pediatric hospitalists will determine the success of our field, and career satisfaction is a key issue in building the discipline. However, we would like to add some observations regarding the current study from a perspective outside of the academic medical center.Being a community hospitalist differs widely among programs. With no pressure to teach or publish, many of us feel the freedom to focus on patient care or hospital operational issues that interest us. Some programs cover the emergency department, the nursery or NICU, and sedation service, as well as the pediatric floor. We have all heard the mantra, “if you have seen one hospitalist service, you have seen one hospitalist service.” The variability in practice settings and setup is, we hypothesize, much more apparent in a community hospital setting than in an academic setting, …

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