Hospitalist Resources for Internal Medicine Physicians
ACP offers hospitalists a wide variety of resources and curated content related to practicing inpatient medicine.
Featured ACP Resources for Hospitalists
ACP CME On-Demand: 2026 Hospital Medicine Recordings
Access more than 100 hours of on-demand hospital medicine sessions from ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting 2026.
Read ACP’s weekly, member-exclusive digital magazine focused on hospital medicine.
Annals’ Specialty Collection: Hospital Medicine
Access a collection of curated articles related to inpatient care.
Join ACP to Access These Valuable Resources for Hospitalists
Membership options available for trainees, physicians, and allied health professionals.
Continuing Medical Education and Certification for Hospitalists
- ACP MKSAP® for Hospitalists CME, Inpatient exam, and MOC Prep: The new all digital ACP MKSAP delivers high yield and newly expanded hospitalist content to strengthen your clinical knowledge and uncover gaps. Discover updated guidance on results disclosure, procedural safety, complication management, perioperative medicine, inpatient pain, and more. A new Board Exam Topic Guide has been created for the ABIM's Inpatient exam to help focus your review.
- ACP CME On-Demand: 2026 Hospital Medicine Recordings: Ensure your entire team is equipped with the latest hospital medicine insights for a full year. Access more than 100 hours of on-demand hospital medicine sessions from ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting 2025 and more.
- Hospitalist Sessions at the annual Internal Medicine Meeting: Gain valuable knowledge from national experts in hospitalist-dedicated sessions that focus on clinical topics, quality and safety, team-based approaches, and care transitions.
- Coding for Clinicians: Learn to accurately document and code inpatient services to reflect the full complexity of your patient care, reduce compliance risk, and optimize reimbursement.
- Hospital Medicine Education in the ACP Online Learning Center: Access podcasts, videos, interactive multimedia education, and journal articles covering a wide range of clinical, administrative, and humanities topics relevant to inpatient medicine.
- ACP’s Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Courses: Expand your knowledge of POCUS care in hospital settings by attending one of ACP’s POCUS courses and completing the online learning activities.
Hospital Medicine Education
- ACP Hospitalist: This weekly online magazine covers all aspects of hospital medicine, including clinical care, technology, staffing, salary trends, patient safety, and more.
- Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls, Second Edition: This text focuses on the critical process of assessing and managing patients with medical comorbidities before undergoing surgical procedures.
- Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, Second Edition: This comprehensive textbook covers clinical, organizational, and administrative areas central to the practice of hospital medicine.
- Teaching and Coaching in the Hospital: The newest volume in the essential Teaching Medicine series provides practical guidance to prepare for and supervise rounds, develop strong clinical reasoning skills in your learners, and more.
- Annals’ Specialty Collection: Hospital Medicine: This compendium of Annals articles addresses contemporary issues, innovative practices, and recent research findings that give hospitalists pivotal insights into best practices for inpatient care.
Clinical Decision Support and Practice Tools
- DynaMedex®: Free with ACP membership, this powerful tool delivers fast, reliable answers busy hospitalists need to support informed clinical decision making at the point of care.
- Clinical Guidelines: ACP guidelines provide clinical recommendations based on the best available evidence, inform clinicians when there is no evidence, and help clinicians deliver the best health care possible.
- Critical Care Video Shorts: This unique, mobile-friendly training series provides essential content for intensive care practice.
- Diagnostic Equity: Minimizing Bias in Practice: ACP’s interactive series provides evidence-based strategies to help you recognize and mitigate unconscious bias, strengthening diagnostic decision-making and improving patient outcomes.
- Learning Hubs: Curated resources dedicated to key topics including diagnostic equity, high value care, quality improvement curriculum, pain management, obesity management, sex and gender care, adult immunization, and artificial intelligence.
Career Development for Hospitalists
- Physician Well-being: Access evidence-based resources, trusted tools, and peer support to protect your well-being and help foster communities of wellness within your hospital or health system.
- Team-Based Care Toolkit: Find best practices and real-life examples of successful team-based clinical care models to help you foster productive and purposeful internal medicine teams.
- Personal and Professional Development Webinars: Watch live and recorded webinars covering topics such as financial preparedness, leadership, medical informatics, and more.
- Financial Well-being Program: ACP's member-exclusive tools and resources help you plan and make wise financial decisions, including paying off student loans, managing credit, and more.
- Career Connection: Search ACP’s online marketplace to explore open hospitalist positions nationwide or post available jobs at your hospital.
- Physician Peer Coaching: Work with ACP physician coaches on your personal career goals or participate in a coach training program to develop evidence-based coaching skills that help strengthen your leadership and communication abilities.
Leadership Opportunities for Hospitalists
- Become an ACP Fellow (FACP®): The FACP credential signifies professional credibility and helps enhance and advance your career.
- Submit to Annals of Internal Medicine®: The journal publishes a wide variety of original research, review articles, practice guidelines, and commentary across the spectrum of medicine.
- Submit to Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases (AIMCC): Co-published by ACP and the American Heart Association, AIMCC is an open access journal that publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed clinical case reports, case series, and image and video cases.
- ACP Abstract Competitions: Medical Students, Residents, Transitional Medical Graduates, Fellows-in-Training, and early career physicians who are ACP members are eligible to participate in national or chapter abstract competitions.
- Volunteer Opportunities: Connect and engage with like-minded internal medicine physicians through volunteering opportunities.