Hospital Medicine

Welcome from the Division Chief

Welcome to the Division of Hospital Medicine! Since the hospitalist program launched at Strong Memorial Hospital in 2000, our diverse team has grown, creating innovative models of care for our adult inpatients, teaching and leading nationally recognized educational programs, and advancing our field through research and scholarship.

Comprising over 80 full- and part-time hospitalists and 60 APPs, our expanding group cares for over 300 patients each day at Strong Memorial Hospital, a quaternary referral center with a diverse patient population. Building on Rochester’s biopsychosocial model, we partner with our interprofessional teams to provide a comprehensive approach to patient care.

In addition to providing care for all patients on the general medical service, we also staff a variety of innovative co-management services with our subspecialty colleagues, including oncology, liver transplant, advanced heart failure, trauma surgery, emergency general surgery, colorectal surgery, thoracic surgery, ENT surgery, urology, and orthopedic surgery. Our bedside procedure team supports clinical care and patient throughput, and our Hospital at Home program provides high-quality inpatient care to patients in the comfort of their own home.

Our hospitalists are leaders in clinical programs, quality improvement, education, scholarship, and well-being. Our division is home to:

• 15 Unit Medical Directors
• Medical Director of Compliance and Utilization Management Physician Advisor Program
• Residency Program Director and 4 Associate Program Directors
• Director of the UR Mentor LAB
• Co-Director of the Academy of Educators
• Director of Medical Education Research and Scholarship in the Department of Medicine
• Directors and Associate Directors of the Internal Medicine Clerkship
• The Director of Acting Internships
• Several Core Clinical Assessors
• POCUS Curriculum Director
• POCUS Fellowship Director
• Many medical student course and clerkship faculty

In the spirit of Meliora, our faculty development program supports professional development, lifelong learning, and collegiality through mentoring programs, a robust faculty onboarding program, and educational sessions 2-4 times per week on a variety of topics such as diagnostic reasoning, POCUS, well-being, quality assurance, quality improvement, high-value care, and clinicopathological correlations. We support the development of educator skills through our conference series and a peer observation of teaching program.

Our group is dedicated to improving diversity and creating a more inclusive environment for our patients, staff, learners, and colleagues. We aim to enhance the division’s well-being and support institutional strategic priorities through our faculty education programming, community and institutional mentoring, and quality improvement programs.

Justin L. Hopkin, MD
 Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine

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