Is a renaissance emerging in medical education? One hundred forty-five submissions to the
Journal of General Internal Medicine's Education Issue suggests pent-up demand for …

The growth of hospital medicine has led to new challenges, and recent graduates may feel
unprepared to meet the expanding clinical duties expected of hospitalists. At our institution …

This commentary discusses the shortage of primary care physicians, framed by encounters
where mentors have asserted that students are “too smart” for primary care. The authors …

We are experiencing a paradigm shift in medical education. Education has moved away
from using Btime^ as a determinant of learner readiness to advance to the next stage and …

30 000. 1-3 While approximately 85% of hospitalists are internal medicine (IM) trained, 4
very few IM residency training programs offer focused training in hospital medicine. Plauth …

There is ongoing concern about the adequacy of the physician workforce and its effect on
the future of academic medicine, as emphasized in a recent Alliance of Academic Internal …

BACKGROUND Early residency is a crucial time in the professional development of
physicians. As interns assume primary care for their patients, they take on new …

Background The provision of high-quality clinical care is critical to the mission of academic
and nonacademic clinical settings and is of foremost importance to academic and …

Hospitalism as a career option is likely to reinforce the emphasis of traditional medical
residency programs on inpatient care; may become an alternative area of emphasis in many …

American academic medicine faces a crisis as we move toward the 21st century. Some of
our most talented young physicians are avoiding an academic career because of the …