Preparing rural care teams for AI can strengthen care without replacing clinical judgement.
|Articles|October 23, 2009
Hospital medicine by the numbers
The Society of Hospital Medicine's most recent bi-annual survey, which covers 2007-2008, indicates that hospitalists are young (the mean age is 40) and almost two-thirds (65 percent) are male.
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The Society of Hospital Medicine's most recent bi-annual survey, which covers 2007-2008, indicates that hospitalists are young (the mean age is 40) and almost two-thirds (65 percent) are male. Here are some additional survey results.
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Compensation arrangements for hospital medicine groups
Earnings by employment model (figures are means)
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