Table 1.

Defined Responsibilities for the Role of Overnight Academic Hospitalist (2012–2014)

Role	Description
Supervisory	Discuss, evaluate, and bill new admissions admitted by house staff.
	Discuss, evaluate, and bill consultations for patients on other services performed by house staff.
	Discuss and supervise (when applicable) bed triage decisions and dispositions.
	Discuss and supervise clinical issues arising with medicine patients.
	Supervise and bill procedures performed by house staff.
	Evaluate patients in need of urgent surgery requiring preoperative medical assessment.
	Provide back-up coverage to the ICU residents when needed (ICU fellows are first call)
Clinical	Assess and evaluate (with house staff) patients requiring emergent surgery.
	Admit patients to the medicine service, when required, to assist house staff with workload.
	Serve as physician leader for all adult cardiac and respiratory arrests throughout the hospital.
	Serve as physician leader for all adult rapid response calls throughout the hospital.