In 1998, half of internal medicine residents chose primary care, but by 2006, over 80% became specialists.
For a while, a rash of medicine residents flouted the rules and donned long coats.
We asked internal medicine residents caring for severely ill patients "would you be surprised if this patient died?"
One of the internal medicine residents dissented.
He sided with the internal medicine resident in suspecting an acute intoxication of some sort.
That's what one of the internal medicine residents told me.
In response, Long Island Jewish created what it calls the Queens track for its internal medicine residents three years ago.
Knowledge and attitudes of internal medicine residents.
He was an internal medicine resident, and she had rotated through his service at Stanford Medical Center.
"My education was supposed to continue during residency and it barely is," said a third-year internal medicine resident at a Brooklyn hospital.