Redesigning Training for Internal Medicine
- George N. Dalekos, MD;
- Konstantinos Makaritsis, MD; and
- Eirini I. Rigopoulou, MD
- From Larissa Medical School and University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.
TO THE EDITOR:
The recent paper by Weinberger and colleagues (1) provides a comprehensive approach to factors that support the need for redesigning training in internal medicine. However, we think that some issues could be addressed in a more straightforward manner to strengthen the urgent need for revisiting internal medicine training (2).
First, what are the problems for internal medicine? Internal medicine has been asleep for too long. Some of the dynamic and technology-supported subspecialties consider that a patient who sees an internist first is simply …
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