%0 Editorial
%T COVID-19 and Its Potential Impact on Achieving Pediatric Hospital Medicine Board Certification for Established Internal Medicine-Pediatrics (Med-Peds) Hospitalists.
%A Lauffer AM
%A Noble A
%A Fish D
%A Peterson R
%A Matthiesen M
%J Cureus
%V 16
%N 2
%D 2024 Feb
%M 38523998
暂无%R 10.7759/cureus.54708
%X With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent rise in adult hospitalized patients, many internal medicine and pediatrics (Med-Peds) hospitalists volunteered or were required by their hospital employers to transition their practice to caring for hospitalized adult patients only. Some Med-Peds hospitalists had a disruption in their practice that may affect their board eligibility for the pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) subspecialty exam in 2024. In this editorial, we review the rise of Med-Peds hospitalist careers, the evolution of PHM becoming a subspecialty, and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on some Med-Peds hospitalists in their quest to become board certified in PHM via the practice pathway.