Clinical Overview

The University of Chicago, Section of Hospital Medicine provides 24 hour a day in-house clinical care at The University of Chicago Medicine (UCM). The Section’s clinical work is performed by more than 70 physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, nurses, and social workers. The members of our Section serve in a broad array of clinical and leadership roles in the Medical Center, Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Undergraduate College,. Faculty roles include serving as teaching attendings for general medical patients, running a robust consultative service, and providing inpatient care of some of the most medically complex patients admitted to UCM Faculty in the Section continue to be tapped for education, clinical, and administrative roles, highlighting their breadth of skills and ability to adapt to new responsibilities.

Our providers play care for patients admitted to UCM. In addition to pre-operative evaluation, we actively manage patients with chronic active medical conditions who are admitted for a non-medical issue. We are available, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with an in-house attending to evaluate and treat patients on the non-medical services that develop an acute medical issue.  We care for a range of medically complex patients, including most solid organ transplant patients and oncology patients with medical complications of their disease or treatment. In an innovative care team model, we use hospital medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in close cooperation with the consulting services to meet the highly complex care required by these patients. We have developed expertise in the management of complications of immunosuppression and other common complications facing these types of patients. Additionally, the Section’s Comprehensive Care Physician Program (CCP) provides integrated inpatient and outpatient care for patients at increased risk of hospitalization. The Hospital Medicine Section also runs the medicine consult service at UCM, a service which works closely with the surgical and other non-medicine services, particularly Orthopedics, Urology, Vascular Surgery, Neurosurgery, and Neurology.

As academic hospitalists, the members of the Hospital Medicine Section are active clinical educators. Hospitalists attend on the general medicine teaching services at UCM. These services include one resident, two interns, and several medical students. The patients on this service include patients followed in the UCM system as outpatients, patients from the surrounding community, as well as patients referred here for complex medical care and access to our expert clinical specialists.