The Hospitalist - An Official Publication of Society of Hospital Medicine

Digital scholarship is ubiquitous in medicine. Healthcare workers, including hospitalists, consume it through a variety of mediums including audio, video, and data visualization. Many physicians disseminate digital scholarship through social media. Despite existing guidelines for the assessment of digital scholarship, academic medical centers (AMCs) often fail to incorporate and adjudicate digital media-based scholarship into accepted criteria for academic promotion. In this JHM perspective, the authors identify an opportunity for AMCs to implement standardized criteria for promotion opportunities regardless of an individuals’ scholarship medium.