The Family Medicine Hospitalist Service

The Family Medicine Hospitalist Service was established in July of 2005
and currently employs 7 physicians. The busy service discharges approximately
1200 patients per year. The hospitalist group has a dual focus of providing
comprehensive, family-centered patient care and implementing an evidence-based  
resident-centered education model.  The service performs procedures such as
nuclear stress testing, paracentesis, thoracentesis, central venous lines and lumbar
punctures. 

Our faculty has been awarded the residents’ Inpatient Teaching Award every
year since its inception.  In addition to intensive teaching on bedside rounds, didactic
teaching includes a series of lectures based on the 20 core competencies of hospital
medicine set forth by the Society of Hospital Medicine.

The Hospitalist faculty have demonstrated a level of professional service at both
the local and national levels. Many members of our team serve as peer reviewers for
national journals, present at national meetings and hold prominent positions within
the AAFP and Society of Hospital Medicine. 

Contact:
Shannon B. Jenkins, M.D.
Associate Chief Family Medicine Hospitalist Service
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
119 Belmont Street, Jaquith 2
Worcester, MA 01605-2982
Phone 508-793-6095
Fax 508-334-6404