What does a Hospitalist do?

Provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms. Day to day that includes work like diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients and Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.

What skills should a Hospitalist put on a resume?

O*NET rates Active Learning, Active Listening, Complex Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Judgment and Decision Making among the most important skills for this occupation. Name the ones that are genuinely yours and show where you used them. A resume that lists skills you do not have is weaker than one that lists fewer.

What software should a Hospitalist list?

Software recorded for this occupation includes Billing software, Computerized physician order entry CPOE software, Electronic medical record EMR software, Email software, and Epic Systems. Applicant tracking systems match on the exact product name, so write the tool as the posting writes it rather than describing it in general terms.

What other job titles cover Hospitalist work?

O*NET records 17 titles for this occupation, including Hospitalist Medical Doctor, Hospitalist MD, MD, and Medical Doctor. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.

What qualifications does a Hospitalist need?

In O*NET's survey of people doing this job, 48% reported their level of education as "Post-Doctoral Training". That is what current postholders reported, not a requirement any single employer sets.

Will this resume pass an ATS for a Hospitalist role?

No tool outside an employer can tell you how that employer's system is configured, including ours. What you can control is that the resume parses cleanly, names the work in the words the posting uses, and does not claim anything you cannot back up.

Hospitalist resume example

A resume for a Hospitalist needs to show the work itself: provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms. Day to day that means work like this: diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients; prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients. Recruiters and applicant tracking systems both read for the tasks and tools this role actually involves, so the strongest resume names them in your own experience rather than describing the job in the abstract. Below are the tasks O*NET records for this occupation, the software and tools it uses, the titles it is advertised under, and the skills worth naming if they are genuinely yours.

Also advertised as

The same job is posted under many titles. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.

Hospitalist Medical Doctor
Hospitalist MD
MD
Medical Doctor
Physician
Academic Hospitalist
Consultant Physician
Neonatal ICU Hospitalist
Hospitalist Nocturnist Physician
Hospitalist Physician
Intensivist
Internal Medicine Hospitalist
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospitalist
Neurology Hospitalist
Nocturnist Hospitalist
Pediatric Hospitalist
Pediatric Hospitalist Physician

What people in this job call themselves

Titles reported by people actually doing this work, which is often not the title on the job posting.

Hospitalist
Hospitalist Medical Doctor (Hospitalist MD)
MD (Medical Doctor)

What this work actually involves

Tasks recorded for this occupation, in O*NET's words. If your experience covers one of these, it belongs on your resume in your own words.

Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
Admit patients for hospital stays.
Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
Refer patients to medical specialists, social services, or other professionals as appropriate.
Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.
Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge and skills.
Direct or support quality improvement projects or safety programs.

14 tasks are recorded in total; these are the most central.

Example bullets for this role

Built from this occupation's own tasks. The brackets stay empty on purpose: we will not invent a number for you, and a fabricated metric is the fastest way to lose an interview you had already won.

Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays), for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
Admit patients for hospital stays, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].

Software used in this role

Recorded for this occupation by O*NET. An applicant tracking system matches the exact product name, so write the tool the way the posting writes it.

Billing software
Computerized physician order entry CPOE software
Electronic medical record EMR software
Email software
Epic Systems
Epocrates
Global positioning system GPS software
MDeverywhere
Medical decision support software
Medical procedure coding software
Medical reference software
MEDITECH software
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office software

18 software entries are recorded in total.

Tools and equipment

The physical equipment this occupation is recorded as using. Worth naming when a posting asks for it by name.

Aspheric lens magnifiers
Automated defibrillators
Ayre's spatula
Bag valve mask BVM resuscitators
Binocular light compound microscopes
Bipolar forceps
Blood glucometers
Cannula sets
Capnograph monitors
Carbon dioxide monitors
Cardiorespiratory monitors
Central venous catheters

Skills an ATS reads for

Worth naming only if they are genuinely yours. Keyword overlap is one input to a resume's score, not a verdict.

Epic
prescribe medications

What this job rates as most important

O*NET rates every skill for importance to this occupation. These are the highest rated, in order.

01Active Learning
02Active Listening
03Complex Problem Solving
04Critical Thinking
05Judgment and Decision Making
06Reading Comprehension
07Social Perceptiveness
08Speaking
09Monitoring
10Service Orientation

Knowledge areas

The subject knowledge this occupation draws on, rated by importance.

Medicine and Dentistry
Biology
English Language
Psychology
Education and Training
Therapy and Counseling
Customer and Personal Service
Administration and Management

What qualifications people in this job have

From O*NET's survey of people doing this work. This is what postholders reported, not a requirement any single employer sets.

48%Post-Doctoral Training
40%Doctoral Degree
8%First Professional Degree, awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession.

What level this role is pitched at

O*NET places this occupation in “Extensive Preparation Needed”. Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Common questions

What does a Hospitalist do?: Provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms. Day to day that includes work like diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients and Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
What skills should a Hospitalist put on a resume?: O*NET rates Active Learning, Active Listening, Complex Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Judgment and Decision Making among the most important skills for this occupation. Name the ones that are genuinely yours and show where you used them. A resume that lists skills you do not have is weaker than one that lists fewer.
What software should a Hospitalist list?: Software recorded for this occupation includes Billing software, Computerized physician order entry CPOE software, Electronic medical record EMR software, Email software, and Epic Systems. Applicant tracking systems match on the exact product name, so write the tool as the posting writes it rather than describing it in general terms.
What other job titles cover Hospitalist work?: O*NET records 17 titles for this occupation, including Hospitalist Medical Doctor, Hospitalist MD, MD, and Medical Doctor. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.
What qualifications does a Hospitalist need?: In O*NET's survey of people doing this job, 48% reported their level of education as "Post-Doctoral Training". That is what current postholders reported, not a requirement any single employer sets.
Will this resume pass an ATS for a Hospitalist role?: No tool outside an employer can tell you how that employer's system is configured, including ours. What you can control is that the resume parses cleanly, names the work in the words the posting uses, and does not claim anything you cannot back up.

Related roles

Occupations O*NET records as closest to this one, and worth looking at if this search is not moving.

What this page cannot tell you

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This page makes no claim about pay, demand or how many people hold this job. O*NET does not publish that here and we will not estimate it.
Keyword overlap is one input to a resume’s score, not a verdict on you. A resume that names skills you do not have is worse than one that names fewer.

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