https://www.mubucm.com/doc/14cA-PZlzwN

Teaching in the hospital setting is unique. The complexity and variability of patients require the hospital medicine educator (the attending physician) to adapt to the circumstances and be prepared to teach a wide range of clinical topics, while serving as a role model for an expanded patient care team. The attending is routinely required to interact with various components of the hospital system: the emergency department, the intensive care unit, the laboratory, the pharmacy, and the social work department, in addition to the variable ecosystems on each hospital ward. Furthermore, the attending must interact with multiple services, many of which are not internal medicine—based: surgery, neurology, and obstetrics, for example, in addition to subspecialty services.