Career Catalyst: Building Hospitalist Futures with “CHAMP” (Career Hospitalist Advisement and Mentorship Program)
Guiding the Conversation: Your Workshop Presenters
Eric Barna MD MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education
Director Of Education Division of Hospital Medicine
Associate Residency Program Director
Acting Internship Clerkship Director
Director of the CHAMP Program
Director of the Hospital Medicine Elective
Mitchell Gronowitz MD
Instructor of Medicine
Division of General Medicine/Section of Hospital Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center/ Milstein Hospital
Rex Hermansen MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Clerkship Director, Inpatient Medicine
Division of Hospital Medicine
Yoni Kirsch MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Benjamin Hack MD (Mount Sinai, IM Resident)
CHAMP Program –Resident Lead
Know…
Our current residents and future hospitalists are not receiving the necessary guidance and support to build successful careers in Hospital Medicine.
Do…
Leverage the CHAMP program, the tools provided today, and the mentors present in this session to create a clear and effective pathway for your trainees.
Feel…
You now possess the essential tools to effectively support, advocate for, and guide your trainees as they embark on the next chapter of their careers as future hospitalists.
CHAMP Pre-Survey 2023
How do I apply? Where can I find a list of positions? What timeline for applying? Do I need a formal academic CV? Should I prepare three letters of recommendation? Is there tool we can use to prepare for an Interview? What are the differences between community and academic positions? How do I look for leadership roles? What will I need to do to ensure that I get promoted?
CHAMP: Foundational Elements
Initial Assessment
Faculty Pairing
Enhanced Exposure to HM
Career Development Curriculum
Career Planning Support/Advocacy
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❑ Enrollment ❑ Individualized Faculty Pairing ❑ Review Advisement Pathway
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Longitudinal Career Development Curriculum
Longitudinal Career Development Curriculum
Mock Interviews
Introduction: Benjamin Hack
The Resident Lens
2023 | Enrolled in CHAMP
2024-2025 | Resident Lead of CHAMP
2022-2025 | Mount Sinai Hospital Residency
July 2025 | Accepted Position: Hospitalist at Mount Sinai Morningside
Current Resident Perspective on CHAMP
❑ Connection to faculty mentor
❑ Hospitalist elective experience
❑ Webinars on the application and job process
❑ Using the alumni network
❑ Scholarship from CHAMP itself
The Resident Lead for CHAMP
❑ Routine meetings with program leadership
❑ Direct line of feedback/survey data
❑ Streamlining communication/reminders
❑ Building resource guides
❑ Anchoring to real-world context
ResourceArchive Development
Job Database Creation
Mitchell Gronowitz, MD
The Alumni Perspective
2023-2024 | Resident co-lead and graduate of CHAMP
2021-2024 | Mount Sinai Hospital Residency
July 2024 | Hospitalist at Milstein Hospital, Columbia University
2023-2024 | Resident co-lead and graduate of CHAMP
July 2024 | Hospitalist at Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health
Yoni Kirsch, MD
Alumni Reflections on CHAMP
❑ Hospital medicine elective
▪ Working with APPs
▪ Interdisciplinary care
❑ Workshop takeaways
▪ Billing
▪ Teaching learners at all levels
▪ Pathways to promotion
❑ Serving as informal mentors
❑ Skills to build mentorship programs at our new institutions
▪ Resources (workshop content, information about programs)
▪ Networking
❑ Continued scholarship
Introduction: Dr. Rex Hermansen
The Mentor Experience
2016-2019 | Mount Sinai Hospital, Division of Hospital Medicine
2019 | Hospitalist, Mount Sinai
IM Residency | Columbia 2023 | CHAMP Mentor
Mentor Expectations
❑ Personalized mentor-mentee pairing
❑ 2-3 Meetings annually with flexibility
❑ Tracking advisee’s movement through phases
❑ Collaborative engagement of other mentors
❑ Participate in mock interviews
❑ Direct support/advocacy for job placement
❑ Engage in mentor directed faculty development
Breakout Session…
Breakout Session Activity
Regroup and Report
Employment Placement: AY 2023/2024
AY 23/24
❑ Poster Accepted to Society of Hospital Medicine
❑ Selected as a finalist in poster competition
Dr. Kirsch Wins the Innovations Trainee Award for CHAMP at SHM!
Priceless Moments…
Mount Sinai’s first Hospitalist “match party”
The Hospitalist “How We Did It”
Looking Forward….
Feedback based programmatic change
Expansion of career development content
National expansion/collaboration
SHM Workshop Development Scholarship
Longitudinal mentorship of alumni
Enhanced Mentor Support and Faculty Development Hospital Medicine track?
“Creativity is just connecting things.” -Steve Jobs
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