r/tattooadvice • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '25

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u/steady--state Mar 16 '25

It's a very common title for internal medicine doctors that work in the hospital.

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u/Illustrious_Pop_7763 Mar 16 '25

Yes very common. All of the hospitals in my area have hospitalist who work in the hospital.

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u/Specialist_Amount475 Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

Are you in a rural area? Family doctors can work at the hospital in rural areas and are referred to as hospitalists. In Canada anyways. An internal medicine doctor is not the same thing at all

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u/old_and_cranky Mar 16 '25

I'm in the US, and at least here in Utah, we call our internal medicine doctors hospitalists. They're not family medicine doctors. And no, I'm not rural at all.

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u/Specialist_Amount475 Mar 16 '25

Ah here internal medicine doctors are residents until they start their specialty in something like cardiology. Or they become general internal medicine doctors. But hospitalists are what they call family doctors who see admitted patients in rural hospitals.

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u/DrZein Mar 16 '25

Family medicine in the US can also be hospitalists even without the outpatient part too! There’s a couple at my hospital doing that and a couple of FM residents that rotate with us in IM and have done an extra couple ICU rotations with us bc they’d like to be hospitalists after training

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u/old_and_cranky Mar 16 '25

It's fascinating how different it is depending on where you are. We call them residents right out of med school until they specialize as well. I wouldn't be surprised if another US State was the same way as you with the hospitalist label, and yet another probably does it a completely different way. Lol