About UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine

The Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) 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 Goldman medical service, medical consult service (and at Mission Bay), neurosurgery comanagement service, heme-bmt hospitalist service, advanced heart failure hospitalist service, procedure service, and nighttime medical service.

The Medical Service at St. Mary’s Medical Center is our newest clinical service, caring for patients admitted through both the UCSF Medical Center and St. Mary’s Emergency Departments, as well as direct admissions from referring clinics. In addition to their clinical work, the Division of Hospital Medicine focuses on excellence in teaching, research, and quality improvement.

The Division has achieved a remarkable number of "firsts" in hospital medicine:

• Coined the term hospitalist (in a 1996 article by Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman in the New England Journal of Medicine)
• Published the first peer-reviewed paper on hospitalists' positive impact on clinical care in Annals of Internal Medicine
• Hosted the first hospital medicine CME course in 1997; the course remains the nation's most popular and is now in its 21st year
• Edited 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 and a division of their own starting July 2018
• Edited the major case-based series on End-of-Life care in the United States, Perspectives of Care at the Close of Life, in JAMA
• Edited 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 (PSNet), and wrote the bestselling book on medical errors, Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America’s Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes
• Helped found the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM); two of the society's first eight presidents (Robert Wachter and Steven Pantilat) are from the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine
• Launched the first Hospitalist Mini-College in 2008
• Launched the first Global Health Hospital Medicine fellowship in 2012

Over the past few years, articles describing the Division have appeared in virtually every major medical publication, along with the New York Times, the LA Times, and the Washington Post. Our faculty have also been featured on CNN and NPR.