Interview With Hospitalist Board-Certified Physician Dr. Charlie Hu, MD

Dr. Charlie Hu has 15+ years of hospitalist medicine experience. He discussed his reasons for choosing to be a hospitalist and giving students insights that could help you make a decision to be a hospitalist one day.
0:00 What do hospitalists do?
1:25 Reasons for choosing to be a hospitalist
2:37 Paths to becoming a hospitalist
4:18 Other residencies and medical specialties he considered
4:48 Personal qualities of successful hospitalist
7:08 Enjoyable and satisfying aspect of being a hospitalist
10:48 Work life balance of being a hospitalist
12:28 The not so enjoyable aspects of being a hospitalist
14:58 Changes of hospitalist medicine during Covid-19
16:56 10-20 years outlook of being a hospitalist
18:36 Future job market for hospitalist medicine
19:47 Additional resources to learn more about hospitalist medicine
20:34 Top tips to students

[@onua2012sga]

Thank you for this video, Dr. Cao. As a recently-accepted applicant I really appreciate you sharing Dr. Hu's information with us. Now that I can more confidently research specialities I do think the hospitalist path is very appealing. Thanks again!

[@yihoonshin176]

I’m an undergrad who has his MCAT coming up in a few months, and this was very eye-opening and inspiring! Thank you!

[@khanhcaomd5838]

Cool, good luck on the exam. Feel free to share w/ anyone you know that is interested in going into medicine.

[@TheOnlyTinMS3]

Thank you for this!

[@khanhcaomd5838]

Glad it was helpful! Good luck Tin

[@samuelrestrepo4489]

Great video 👍

[@khanhcaomd5838]

Thanks Samuel, glad it can be of help

[@tuyats7727]

Great video! Please do video on oncology and hematology.

[@khanhcaomd5838]

Thanks, will try for one in the future.

[@AZ.1988]

Hey nice video. Can you please tell me what's the average Salary of IM/FM academic hospitalist who just started after completing his/her residency? Thanks in advance😊

[@thanaykumar5613]

how much do a fresh hospatalist earn in usa??

[@khanhcaomd5838]

You can search for data on average salary on medscape on different specialties although not sure if they break down years of experience. Salaries changes w/ supply and demand like most jobs in life.

[@os3752]

Around 180-280k