of medicine is not formally recognised as a specialty (such as a Medical Practitioner working as a Clinical Forensic Medicine or Aviation Medicine with a qualification or fellowship in this area of medicine from a specialty college that is not recognised or accredited by AMC and AHPRA); doctors who practice in a specialised area of medicine with seniority and experience but have not been formally recognised as a specialist medical practitioner (such as a Medical Practitioner who is an International Medical Graduate with specialist qualifications of a Cardiologist in his home country that is not recognised by the relevant accredited Specialty College, AMC and AHPRA); doctors who do not or did not meet the requirements for specialty training; doctors who are intending to specialise in the future but not at this moment; doctors who have completed specialty training in a field but have decided to seek (primary or secondary) employment as a non-specialist hospital clinician (such as a fellowship qualified General Practitioner working part-time as a Career Medical Officer in the Emergency Department or as a Surgical Assistant); doctors who are concurrently in the process of specialising but are taking temporary leave from their specialty training and/or additionally working as a non-specialist clinician elsewhere usually in the capacity of a temporary locum tenens (such as a Resident or Registrar at a public teaching hospital working part-time or casually as a Career Medical Officer at a private hospital). These clinicians are also known by a variety of terms, including but not limited to: Career Medical Officer (CMO) Senior Medical Officer (SMO) Multi-skilled Medical Officer (MMO) Hospitalists or Career Hospital Doctor Hospitalists are typically employed in a variety of public and private hospital settings on a contractual or salaried basis. Traditionally, career medical officers or hospitalists are employed as permanent full-time or part-time staff, but more commonly in recent times, due to a significant workforce of clinicians been in-flux with their specialty training and insufficient staffing of middle-grade clinicians at hospitals, there has been an increase supply and demand for hospitalists on a locum tenens or casual basis. Dependent on their place of employment and duties, the responsibilities and remuneration of non-specialist hospitalists are usually comparable to somewhere between registrars and consultants. Despite the common trend for clinicians to specialise nowadays, non-specialist hospitalist clinicians have an important role in fulfilling shortages in the medical workforce, especially when specialist (or registrar) coverage and