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Performance on the internal medicine second-year residency in-training examination predicts the outcome of the ABIM certifying examination

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For 223 residents from eight teaching hospitals, the results of the second-year in-training examination and the first-sitting certifying examination of the American Board of Internal Medicine were highly correlated. The results of the in-training examination can serve residents as an important measure of their preparedness for certification and can be useful in identifying the need for more intensive self-study strategies during the subsequent one and a half years

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  1. the Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Herbert Waxman MD

  2. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

    Glenn Braunstein MD

  3. Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York

    David Dantzker MD

  4. the Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

    Stephen Goldberg MD

  5. the Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

    Steven Lefrak MD

  6. Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York

    Edgar Lichstein MD

  7. Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida

    Kenneth Ratzan MD

  8. Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island

    Fred Schiffman MD

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Waxman, H., Braunstein, G., Dantzker, D. et al. Performance on the internal medicine second-year residency in-training examination predicts the outcome of the ABIM certifying examination. J Gen Intern Med 9, 692–694 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02599012

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