Research Training in Six Selected Internal Medicine Fellowship Programs

View larger version (20K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Subspecialty programs sponsored by academic medical center hospitals or major teaching hospitals that accepted fellows interested in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Research Pathway and provided opportunities to pursue formal course work leading to an advanced degree in 1998–1999 and 1999–2000. Considerably more programs sponsored by academic medical center hospitals planned to accept persons interested in pursuing the new ABIM Research Pathway and to provide opportunities for fellows to obtain an advanced degree. Each key at the bottom of the figure corresponds to the two bar graphs above it.

View larger version (42K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Duration and intensity of fellows' research activities in 1996–1997 and 1997–1998 in six internal medicine subspecialties. The average percentage of time that first-year, second-year, and third-year fellows in programs that did not have separate clinical or research tracks spent doing research is shown. The horizontal line shows the average percentage of time that fellows spent conducting research in their last year.

View larger version (35K): [in a new window]   Figure 3. Distribution of time that fellows spent doing research during 1997–1998 in six internal medicine subspecialties. The average time that first-year (top), second-year (middle), and third-year (bottom) fellows spent conducting research is shown for programs that did (white bars) and those that did not (gray bars) have separate clinical or research tracks in 1997–1998. The number of programs with separate tracks was as follows: cardiology, 33; endocrinology, 18; gastroenterology, 27; infectious disease, 33; nephrology, 44; rheumatology, 17.