Summary: Dr. William Southern, chief of hospital medicine at Montefiore/Einstein in New York City, talks about how SCHOLAR was kicked off as a joint project of the Society of General Internal Medicine and Society of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Luci Leykum, associate professor of medicine and chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of Texas at San Antonio, outlines the metrics of the project’s discoveries and talks about inherent challenges in academic HM programs. Dr. Greg Seymann, clinical professor and chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of California at San Diego and chair of SHM’s Academic Advancement and Promotions task force, talks about other surprises the project revealed regarding definitions of success and shares some questions he hopes to explore in the SCHOLAR project’s next study.
