Section of Hospital Medicine

The Section of Hospital Medicine employs 70+ hospitalists: doctors, PAs and NPs who are specialized in taking care of patients in the hospital, provide 24/7 coverage and coordinate and manage the hospitalized patient’s interdisciplinary and specialty care team. The Section of Hospital Medicine each day cares for patients on 15+ clinical services across a wide spectrum of diagnoses from liver transplant to lymphoma and manages greater than one third of the patients hospitalized at University of Chicago Medicine and the majority of the medicine patients hospitalized on medicine at Mercy Medical Center.  We care for patients referred from across the world to our quaternary care hospital for the care of specialists who are often international leaders in their field.  We also care for patients from our own community in the south side of Chicago and serve as both an advocate and navigator for their medical needs.  Hospitalists serve in key clinical leadership and operational roles and spearhead quality improvement, medical education and high value care work throughout the University of Chicago Hospital. 

In addition to this robust clinical enterprise, the University of Chicago Section of Hospital Medicine is a national leader in hospital medicine research with several award-winning master researchers and a long-standing and well-respected hospital medicine fellowship training program.  The Section is home to innovative and transformative research programs including the Hospitalist Project and the Comprehensive Care Program. 

Educators within the section occupy important leadership roles within Pritzker School of Medicine and University of Chicago Internal Medicine Residency Program.  Hospitalists engage in medical education across all levels and early career hospitalists are provided support and mentorship to improve clinical teaching skills through the Passport to Clinical Teaching.  Hospitalists are integrated into education across the University of Chicago, some serving as faculty within other schools including the Harris School and many teaching courses to undergraduates and non-medical graduate students as well. 

The section has a comprehensive committee structure wherein hospitalists work on projects and skills in multiple areas of their choice including informatics, patient engagement and quality improvement, among others.  The section emphasizes mentorship and professional development with an innovative Clinical Mentorship Program for early career hospitalists, a biweekly CME program and engagement and outreach with key professional organizations including SHM and SGIM.  Our multiple programs and roles align in our core mission: to achieve clinical, research and educational excellence in the field of Hospital Medicine and to help hospitalists create long-term, meaningful and satisfying hospital medicine careers.