Training in general (internal) medicine alone

Training in general (internal) medicine alone.

A freestanding training programme for general (internal) medicine (G(I)M) alone was established in the Oxford deanery four years ago. The programme was designed to provide three years' training post-MRCP for specialist registrars, selected in open competition, and covers all aspects of acute medical care including four months in intensive care. The first four to complete training have achieved ...

Training for internal medicine.

I read with amusement the proposal to increase by one year the training for internal medicine specialists. Does everybody today want to be known as having a “special skill”? I submit that if residents who complete four years of training in internal medicine find themselves lacking skills, it is the training that is deficient, not the time spent training. Four years is a substantial amount of ti...

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...

Training programmes in internal medicine: Germany.

Despite differences from one country to another, training programmes for an internal medicine specialist have several common denominators, starting with real hospital responsibilities, a feature which is a fundamental necessity. These responsibilities are guaranteed by institutions which are called, depending on the country, "internat des h6pitaux, assistanat, or clinicat." This training must b...