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The University of California, San Diego Medical Center Division of Hospital Medicine is comprised of 17 hospitalist physicians, providing inpatient care for the UCSD Medical Centers in Hillcrest and La Jolla. Dr. Greg Maynard, MD, MS, serves as the Chief for the division, and has been with UCSD since January of 2003.
The Three Pillars of UCSD’s Division of Hospital Medicine
Our program has three pillars to support Excellence:
- Excellent care of the individual patient.
- Effective teaching of residents, students, and each other.
- Systems change to make the care of patients seen at the UCSD Medical Centers more safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. Our academic work should be linked to effective systems change whenever feasible.
What is a Hospitalist?
The Society of Hospital Medicine has adopted the following official definition of "Hospitalist": Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Their activities include patient care, teaching research, and leadership related to Hospital Medicine.
The term 'hospitalist' refers to physicians whose practice emphasizes providing care for hospitalized patients. While some doctors have emphasized inpatient care for many years, there has been an explosive growth of such doctors since 1994.
What benefits can hospitalists offer patients?
By focusing his or her practice on the care of hospitalized patient, a hospitalist can gain a great deal of experience in the unique aspects of a patient's needs during the hospital stay. And hospitalists typically spend most or all of their work day in the hospital, and thus can be more readily available to a patient than a doctor who spends much the day outside the hospital in an office or clinic setting.
UCSD's Hospitalist Team
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