Hiring family medicine physicians for hospitalist positions is a growing trend in today’s hospital medicine environment.

In a recent SHM article, Dr. Jasen Gundersen, TeamHealth’s president of acute and post-acute services, shared his thoughts on the value of considering family medicine doctors as candidates for hospitalist job opportunities and how TeamHealth has long been open to this hiring practice.

Generalist knowledge is an asset: Hospitalists trained in family medicine

Lori J. Heim, MD, FAAFP, a hospitalist in practice at Scotland Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg, N.C., for the past 10 years, recalls when she first decided to pursue hospital medicine as a career. As a family physician in private practice who admitted patients to the local hospital in Pinehurst, N.C., and even followed them into the ICU, she needed a more flexible schedule when she became president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).