Redesigning Training for Internal Medicine

  1. James R. Horning, MD
  1. From University of South Dakota and Royal C. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

    TO THE EDITOR:

    I am responding to the ACP position paper on redesigning training for internal medicine by Weinberger and colleagues (1). Redesigning the training of internal medicine residents may prepare some for their future positions, but I do not think it will increase the number of general internists.

    Having been in private practice on and off for 16 years and with a university-sponsored internal medicine residency program and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on and off for 10 years, I …

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