1. 2016 Pediatric Hospital Medicine Meeting Workshop Pediatric Hospitalist Programs in Community Hospital Settings: Lessons Learned in the Trenches July 29, 2016 Chicago, IL

2. Workshop Faculty
Jeff Brown, MD, MPH, CPE, FAAP, Pediatrix Medical Group. Fort Worth, TX
Michelle Hofmann, MD, MPH, FAAP, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake city, UT
Rachel Marek, MD, FAAP, Director, Pediatric Hospitalist Program, Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, The Woodlands, TX
Jack Percelay, MD, MPH, FAAP, SFHM, Regional Program Director, Hospital Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
Tom Nichols, MD, Pediatric Hospitalist, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Jeff Chinsky, MD, PhD., Director, In-pt Pediatrics, St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Beth Natt, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Pediatric In-pt Unit, Yale-New
Haven Children's Hospital, Bridgeport Campus, Bridgeport, CT

3. Disclosure
None of the workshop faculty have any financial relationship/gain in the material to be presented in this workshop
We wish we did!
If anyone can figure out how to make a buck doing this, please let us know – mortgages, kids to feed/educate/spouses to support, etc.

4. Workshop Background: PH’s in the US
Approximately 4,300 PHs in US; unknown # of hospitals.
60-70% work in community hospital settings; the rest in Children’s Hospitals, University Hospitals, etc.
Unclear % general pediatricians, fellowship trained/subspecialty trained, board eligible/certified.
American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) - formal subspecialty board certification for PH’s; fellowship training; grandfathering process to be included.

5. Workshop Learning Objectives
Session participants will better understand/participate in the AAP SOHM Subcommittee on CHs activities.
Session participants will better understand the unique/different aspects of working in/directing a pediatric hospitalist program in a CH setting.
Session participants will learn from other PHs working in CHs about how they address unique aspects/methods/successful strategies re providing care in CHs.
Have some fun – we don’t take ourselves as seriously as PH colleagues in University/CH settings.
Shore up/improve/enhance/reinforce our identity as PHs in CHs – We are not 2nd class citizens!

6. Workshop Format
Brief review of AAP SOHM SC on CHs activities – RM and JB
12-15 min informal presentations- Faculty
Brief remarks by presenter
Q & A to follow
Q & A at end
Speak up! This is your WS. We are all experts/benefit from other’s experiences/wisdom
Interactive session – network, network, network!!
Extra points for any jokes/humor 