I read with amusement the proposal to increase by one year the training for internal
medicine specialists. 1 Does everybody today want to be known as having a “special skill”? I …

▪ The academic leadership of internal medicine is considering fundamental changes in the
curriculum for internal medicine residency training. The impetus to change the curriculum is …

Kenneth M. Flegel, Anita Palepu ß See related article page 1032 needs first to be a
successful human being. We should therefore welcome the shift in attitude that has occurred …

The postgraduate education of physicians has been shaped by various forces other than the
need to train appropriate numbers of physicians in specialties. The pivotal role of internal …

Excerpt Elsewhere in this issue, Schroeder and colleagues (1) suggest certain alterations
may be needed in the content of graduate education for internists. Others have already …

Excerpt Whatever their differences, those who lament the declining recruitment to internal
medicine agree on one thing: There is no one thing. There is no single cause, and there can …

▪ Considerable attention is being directed from within the discipline of internal medicine to a
perceived need for changes in the curriculum for postgraduate training of the internist. Much …

Die ärztliche Weiterbildung ist für alle jungen Ärzt* innen in den ersten Berufsjahren ein
zentrales Thema im Berufsalltag. Trotz Vorgaben der Weiterbildungsordnungen und …

To the Editors: We strongly disagree with the proposal outlined by Dr. Stein (1) to increase
internal medicine residency training to 4 years, for the purpose of increasing the …

MUCH IS GOOD, even excellent, in American medical education, and I do not mean to
ignore or denigrate all that is positive. It is to the credit of the academic medical community …