Effect of debt on U.S. medical school graduatesʼ preferences for family medicine, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics

Medicine: Analytical Reviews of General Medicine, Neurology and Pediatrics

as articles; they are: ' A new conception of the morbid changes in diseases of the thyroid gland, based on experimental studies of the normal gland and the thyroid in exophthalmic goitre', by William Francis Rienhoff, Jr., and ' The clinical implications of experimental hematology', by Charles A. Doan. Let us deal with the second article first. From the point of view of the pure clinician we fe...

The future of general internal medicine. Report and recommendations from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Task Force on the Domain of General Internal Medicine.

The Society of General Internal Medicine asked a task force to redefine the domain of general internal medicine. The task force believes that the chaos and dysfunction that characterize today's medical care, and the challenges facing general internal medicine, should spur innovation. These are our recommendations: while remaining true to its core values and competencies, general internal medici...

Update in general internal medicine.

Update in general internal medicine.

The big news in women’s health in 2002 came from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) report, which found that combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) (estrogen plus progestin) exposes postmenopausal women to more risk than benefit. Before this report, most observational studies showed that HRT decreased risk for heart disease by as much as 35%. In retrospect, however, many of these studies d...

Comparison of Medical Education between Germany and Poland Considering Internal Medicine, General Medicine, and Anaesthesia

With the continuing shortage of physicians in Germany, healthcare is increasingly being sustained by foreign physicians. The present paper addresses the comparability of medical education curricula in Germany and Poland and the qualification of physicians having Polish exams and specialist medical training for clinics and practices in Germany. The Medical Licensing Act and the Model Specialty T...