Heather A. Harris, MD, director of Eden Inpatient Services at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Calif., has been a hospitalist for nearly four years and helped start her hospital medicine practice, which currently employs eight full-time day hospitalists and “a cadre of night folks.”
“I’ve been on both ends of looking for a job and hiring hospitalists,” she says. Below, she and other hospitalists share advice on how to choose your first position in hospital medicine.