The Divisions of Hospital Medicine – located at the UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus and the San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center – are national leaders in clinical care, education, and research. Hospitalists care for inpatients on the general medicine service at the UCSF and SFGH Medical Centers, as well as on the general medical consult service and the palliative care service. In addition to their clinical work, the Divisions of Hospital Medicine focus on excellence in teaching, research, and systems improvement.
The divisions have achieved a remarkable number of "firsts" in hospital medicine:
- Coined the term hospitalist (in a 1996 article by Robert Wachter, MD, and Lee Goldman, MD in the New England Journal of Medicine)
- Published the first peer-reviewed paper on hospitalists' positive impact on clinical care in JAMA
- Hosted the first hospital medicine CME course in 1997; the course remains the nation's most popular and is now in its 10th year.
- Edit the field's main textbook, Hospital Medicine
- Established the nation's first hospital medicine fellowship
- Established one of the most highly respected inpatient palliative care services in the United States, now the site of a national palliative care leadership center
- Edit the major case-based series on End of Life care in the United States, Perspectives of Care at the Close of Life, in JAMA
- Edit the first case-based series on medical errors ("Quality Grand Rounds" in the Annals of Internal Medicine), the popular journal on medical errors, AHRQ WebM&M and the federal medical errors portal, AHRQ Patient Safety Network, and wrote the bestselling book on medical errors, Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind Americas Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes
- Helped found the Society of Hospital Medicine; two of the society's first eight presidents (Drs. Wachter and Pantilat) are from UCSF, and two members of the group have received the society's Young Investigator Award (Drs. Auerbach and Shojania)
Over the past few years, articles describing the program have appeared in virtually every major medical publication, along with the New York Times, the LA Times, and the Washington Post.
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