PMID- 38523998
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240326
IS  - 2168-8184 (Print)
IS  - 2168-8184 (Electronic)
IS  - 2168-8184 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 2
DP  - 2024 Feb
TI  - COVID-19 and Its Potential Impact on Achieving Pediatric Hospital Medicine Board 
      Certification for Established Internal Medicine-Pediatrics (Med-Peds) 
      Hospitalists.
PG  - e54708
LID - 10.7759/cureus.54708 [doi]
LID - e54708
AB  - With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent rise in adult 
      hospitalized patients, many internal medicine and pediatrics (Med-Peds) 
      hospitalists volunteered or were required by their hospital employers to 
      transition their practice to caring for hospitalized adult patients only. Some 
      Med-Peds hospitalists had a disruption in their practice that may affect their 
      board eligibility for the pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) subspecialty exam in 
      2024. In this editorial, we review the rise of Med-Peds hospitalist careers, the 
      evolution of PHM becoming a subspecialty, and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic 
      on some Med-Peds hospitalists in their quest to become board certified in PHM via 
      the practice pathway.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2024, Lauffer et al.
FAU - Lauffer, Andrea M
AU  - Lauffer AM
AD  - Hospital Medicine, Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, 
      Huntington, USA.
FAU - Noble, Angela
AU  - Noble A
AD  - Hospital Medicine, Allina Health, Minneapolis, USA.
FAU - Fish, David
AU  - Fish D
AD  - Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, USA.
FAU - Peterson, Rachel
AU  - Peterson R
AD  - Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, 
      USA.
FAU - Matthiesen, Madeleine
AU  - Matthiesen M
AD  - Hospital Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Editorial
DEP - 20240222
PL  - United States
TA  - Cureus
JT  - Cureus
JID - 101596737
PMC - PMC10960611
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - board-certified
OT  - change in practice
OT  - covid-19
OT  - med-peds
OT  - pediatric hospital medicine
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2024/03/25 06:43
MHDA- 2024/03/25 06:44
PMCR- 2024/02/22
CRDT- 2024/03/25 04:21
PHST- 2024/02/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2024/02/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/03/25 06:44 [medline]
PHST- 2024/03/25 06:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/03/25 04:21 [entrez]
PHST- 2024/02/22 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.7759/cureus.54708 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Cureus. 2024 Feb 22;16(2):e54708. doi: 10.7759/cureus.54708. eCollection 2024 
      Feb.