▪ Abundant evidence that medicine is in trouble includes serious career dissatisfaction
among practicing and would-be physicians as well as steeply declining interest in generalist …

In 1992, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) convened a committee, which
produced a white paper entitled Project Professionalism (1). John Stobo, chairman of The …

Background Academic hospitalists engage in many non-clinical domains. Success in these
domains requires support, mentorship, protected time, and networks. To address these non …

BACKGROUND: Hospital medicine is growing rapidly. This changing inpatient work force
has had consequences on medical education, with an increasing hospitalist presence in …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Little is known about factors contributing to the career decisions
of internal medicine residents. OBJECTIVE To evaluate factors self-reported by internal …

CONTEXT: The ways hospitalists interact with and contribute to internal medicine
residencies in the United States have been described locally, but have not been …

A h yes, another editorial on professionalism. This topic has certainly been one of
accelerating interest. For example, a PubMed search on the title word “professionalism” …

OBJECTIVE: To explore the impact of internal medicine residents' roles as learners,
teachers, and physicians on their performance in teaching and supervising interns; to …

Introduction The future of academic medicine depends on attracting motivated trainees to
the academic career path, but challenges to recruitment include unfamiliarity with academic …

Academic Medicine, Vol. 90, No. 4/April 2015 396 frustration with the proliferation of terms
and the tasks associated with them that added to their work without any clear improvement …