“…We describe the following four “hospital medicine researcher archetypes”: (1) traditional researchers (i.e., clinician and nonclinician scientists), (2) embedded researchers (i.e., researchers who support [and are paid by] their institutional missions), 7,8 (3) research contributors (i.e., methods and/or operations experts that facilitate multiple projects), and (4) exploratory researchers (i.e., clinicians who conduct single, usually unfunded, small projects). Each archetype, with its respective training, skills, funding, return on investment opportunities, and growth potential, is described in Table 1.…”