The first comprehensive treatment of hospitalist recruitment and retention, this resource discusses how to build a new hospital medicine practice and effectively reinvigorate and maintain an established practice. The coverage thoroughly analyzes current trends in hospital medicine, and discusses the role of the hospitalist in recruitment, retention, and stabilization of physicians in their local communities. The text also offers professional tools developed over years of clinical practice and professional consultation with more than two dozen hospital medicine programs. Given the impending shortage of physicians in the healthcare industry, this text is especially timely.