Advanced Hospitalist Training

The Stanford Hospitalist Advanced Practice & Education (SHAPE) program is designed to foster professional growth and teach high-impact skills for residents planning careers in Hospitalist Medicine, including procedural skills, ultrasound technique, surgical co-management, and quality improvement. SHAPE is open to all internal medicine residents, and can be combined with any of the PODs. The clinical and non-clinical course requirements to graduate with a clinical certificate and program recognition are as follows:

• Medicine consults
• Minimum of two ICU months during the 2^nd or 3^rd year of residency [in addition to CCU month(s)]
• Ultrasound elective
• QI elective
• Inpatient neurology
• Palliative care
• Hospitalist co-management service

• QI or education project during PGY2 or PGY3 yearincluding presenting the work at an academic conference.
• Participation in hospitalist-specific mentorship program
• Enrollment in the Medical Teaching workshop 

• Close career mentorship throughout your residency from academic hospitalists at Stanford University Hospital and the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital

• Cost containment
• Patient safety
• Hospital efficiency
• Hospital administration
• Fundamentals of perioperative medicine
• Healthcare system structure and changing reimbursement patterns
• LEAN modeling in the hospital setting

• Focused education to best prepare for a career as an academic hospitalist
• Research opportunities, mentorship, networking, and preference on desired rotations
• Certificate upon completion of the program.