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Internal medicine in the National Resident Matching Program 1987: the ides of March.
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The number and percentage of graduating seniors from medical schools in the United States who have matched to categorical programs in internal medicine in the National Resident Matching Program have decreased since 1985 and the clerkship programs must be restructured to provide students an improved introduction to internal medicine.Abstract:
The number and percentage of graduating seniors from medical schools in the United States who have matched to categorical programs in internal medicine in the National Resident Matching Pr...read more
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Medical students' motivation for internal medicine.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the effects of facilitating students' interest versus controlling students' learning as educational models during the internal medicine clerkship and found that the facilitating student's interest model better explained students' choice of internal medicine than did the controlling student's learning model.
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Medical student interest in internal medicine. Initial report of the Society of General Internal Medicine Interest Group Survey on Factors Influencing Career Choice in Internal Medicine.
TL;DR: Factor analysis showed that three factors, "intellectual challenge of internal medicine," "primary care interests" and "the medicine clerkship" attracted students toward internal medicine, whereas three others, "taking care of chronically ill patients," "level of satisfaction among internists and medical residents," and "workload and stress" pushed students away from internal medicine.
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The ravelled sleeve of care. Managing the stresses of residency training.
TL;DR: The literature describing the stresses experienced by residents in training, the toll these stresses may take on residents, and the suggestions that have been made for reducing these stresses are reviewed.
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Teaching medicine as a human experience: a patient-doctor relationship course for faculty and first-year medical students.
William T. Branch,Ronald A. Arky,Beverly Woo,John D. Stoeckle,Donald B. Levy,William C. Taylor +5 more
TL;DR: A required, longitudinal course for first-year medical students that addressed the patient-doctor relationship and focused on bedside interviewing as the means for exploring patients' social, emotional, and ethical concerns.
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Medical Student Attitudes about Internal Medicine: A Study of U.S. Medical School Seniors in 1988
TL;DR: Most medical students make their final choices about specialty during or after their clerkship year, and knowledge of these students' attitudes toward internal medicine could form the basis for the development of strategies to enhance the attractiveness of internal medicine while they are making their final decisions about specialty.
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Why are today's medical students choosing high-technology specialties over internal medicine?
TL;DR: The annual meeting of the Association of Professors of Medicine, an organization of the chairpersons of the departments of medicine of the authors' nation's 125 medical schools, was held last May.
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Changes in the supply of internists: the internal medicine population from 1978 to 1998.
TL;DR: The number of subspecialty internists in the United States is expected to increase 206%, in contrast to a 77% increase expected for general internists, and the proportion of female internists will increase from 7% to 21%.
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Medical students trained abroad and medical manpower. Recent trends and predictions
TL;DR: Since the number of residency positions will probably not expand to meet applicant demand, an increase in the pool of physicians with neither residency training nor licenses to practice medicine is likely and an increased number of students graduating from U.S. medical schools is likely.