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Essential Yet Invisible: Professional Identity Formation Among Academic Internal Medicine Hospitalists Cover

Essential Yet Invisible: Professional Identity Formation Among Academic Internal Medicine Hospitalists

Open Access
|Jun 2026

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Demographics table.

CHARACTERISTIC1N = 20
Age
    <301 (5)
    31–4014 (70)
    41–504 (20)
    51–601 (5)
Years as an Attending
    0–59 (45)
    6–108 (40)
    11–150 (0)
    16–202 (10)
    >201 (5)
Years as an Academic Hospitalist
    0–511 (55)
    6–106 (30)
    11–150 (0)
    16–202 (10)
    >201 (5)
Institution Setting
    Rural1 (5)
    Urban17 (85)
    Blank2 (10)
Geographic Location
    Northeast11 (55)
    West3 (15)
    Central/Midwest2 (10)
    South4 (25)
Academic Rank
    Instructor2 (10)
    Assistant Professor14 (70)
    Associate Professor2 (10)
    Professor2 (10)
Level of Training in Medical Education
    Division level training (e.g. Structured course in peer-teaching or assessment)11 (55)
    Institutional faculty development offered by your department or office of faculty affairs/deans office13 (65)
    Regional/national faculty development at national meetings6 (30)
    Longitudinal/certificate course in teaching skills5 (25)
    Master’s in education/health professions education2 (10)
    PhD in medical education0 (0)
Previous Work in Non-Academic Medicine
    Yes8 (40)
    No12 (60)
Years Worked in Non-Academic Medicine
    0–13 (38)
    2–54 (50)
    >51 (12)
Night Shift Work
    Yes*7 (35)
    No13 (65)
International Medical Graduate
    Yes1 (5)
    No19 (95)
Race+
    Asian5 (25)
    Black/African American1 (5)
    Hispanic/Latino1 (5)
    White/Caucasian13 (65)
Gender Identity**+
    Female11 (55)
    Male9 (45)
    Cisgender1 (5)
Sexual Orientation+
    Straight/heterosexual19 (95)
    Gay1 (5)

[i] 1n (%).

*Mixed night and day shifts.

**Participants were able to select >1 item, therefore values do not equal 20.

+Items with zero participant selections were excluded from Table 1.

Figure 1

Interconnected themes illuminating the complexity of identity formation among academic hospitalists.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.2758 | Journal eISSN: 2212-277X
Language: English
Page range: 534 - 545
Submitted on: May 8, 2026
Accepted on: Jun 4, 2026
Published on: Jun 19, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Shazia Samanani, Beck Gold, Zareen Zaidi, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.