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Neurohospitalists Online
Neurohospitalists is a term which refers neuro physicians who are interested in neurological patient care. Hospitals are now in the process of recruiting a neurohospitalists and another nurse practitioner. Neurologists will either be outpatient or inpatient doctors and those roles may extend to research, teaching graduate medical education, and other activities. It may be that the neurohospitalist model will be viable for medium to large hospitals.
The hospitalists are looking for Neurohospitalists to help partner in the care of these neurological patients and with appropriate consultation and guideline development, great success may be achieved. The new subspecialty of vascular neurology and stroke-center certification, will result in hospitals being forced to rethink acute stroke care. This may help escalate the trend of hospitals hiring full-time neurohospitalists.
