The hospitalist profession is fairly new and is growing continuously. If you are a people person then this is for you. You will be able to work with hospital teams and be exposed to professionals from different specialties. As a hospitalist, you are able to facilitate the transition between a patient and his/her specialist to the patient and yourself. You will help accomplish many things for the hospital such as decreasing readmission rates, lengths of stay, significantly reducing costs for hospital per patient, improve coordination, communication, and relationships between physicians and other members of the care provider team.

You don’t even have to have a Medical Degree to practice in the hospital medicine field. You can practice hospital medicine as a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner.

There are some specific perks that you can negotiate. Some interesting ones I have found is that you can negotiate flexible hours, opportunities to go into other areas (i.e. research, teaching), and tuition reimbursement!Also job outlook is looking great as the number of hospitalist jobs is growing. And of course, rising salaries :)

Here is a great article that relates to this question: http://www.the-hospitalist.org/details/article/186162/In_Demand.html