The UCSF Hospital Medicine Group is a national leader in clinical care, education, and research. Hospitalists care for inpatients on the general medicine service at UCSF Medical Center, as well as on the general medical consult service and the palliative care service. In addition to their clinical work, the UCSF Hospital Medicine Group focuses on excellence in teaching, research, and systems improvement. Mission Statement To provide the highest quality inpatient care, and to do so efficiently To redefine and improve the standard of inpatient care To excel as educators in conveying the principles of evidence based inpatient medicine to students, residents, colleagues, and patients, and transmitting the excitement, gratification, and humanism of hospital medicine To remain academic leaders in hospital medicine, helping bring new knowledge and insight into quality improvement, patient safety, end of life care, evidence-based medicine, and clinical research