812 I consider it purposeful that the postgraduate ed‐ ucation commence with an obligatory 2 ‐year in‐ ternship in the main fields of internal medicine, regardless of the subsequent choice of a super‐ specialty. The 2 ‐year internship should comprise: 1 a 4 ‐month internship in an intensive care unit plus emergency medicine unit 2 a 3 ‐month internship in a cardiology unit 3 a 3 ‐month internsh...

Home > Printer-friendly PDF > Internship Housing Internship Housing A challenge for many students related to their internship search is finding housing in the cities where internship opportunities exist, and many students place unnecessary restrictions on their internship search due to housing concerns. If you are considering an internship in a city not represented in this list, consider contac...

CONTEXT Although the prevalence of depression among medical interns substantially exceeds that of the general population, the specific factors responsible are not well understood. Recent reports of a moderating effect of a genetic polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) in the serotonin transporter protein gene on the likelihood that life stress will precipitate depression may help to understand the developmen...

What levels of preinternship training in testing and psychotherapy do internship directors expect students to have as they enter internship? This study addressed the question by surveying internship directors of all members of the Association of Postdoctoral and Internship Centers and asking them to specify the numbers of testing and psychotherapy experiences they believe an intern candidate sh...

A new method, the paired-comparison ranking technique, is proposed for assisting with internship selection decisions. This technique is discussed in terms of its ability to minimize the effects of decision frames (cf. D. Kahneman & A. Tversky, 1984) as internship sites are selected. The technique is also compared with M. C. Jacob's (1987) internship decision grid. The paired-comparison ranking ...

aim: education is a service, which is influenced by the provider. nowadays, there are a lotof challenges in health care systems, which requires a proper preparation to meet them.medical interns are one of the future components of health care system, who should beprepared very well to meet these challenges. we preformed this survey to assess themedical interns’ satisfaction in shahid beheshti un...

Over the past several yean, students, academic program faculty, and internship training directors have become increasingly concerned about the inequity between the demand for predoctoral internship slots and the limited supply of those placements. This article presents data from the 1999 Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers' (APPIC) Match, along with the results of 2 st...

BACKGROUND Phantom vibration syndrome is a type of hallucination reported among mobile phone users in the general population. Another similar perception, phantom ringing syndrome, has not been previously described in the medical literature. METHODS A prospective longitudinal study of 74 medical interns (46 males, 28 females; mean age, 24.8±1.2 years) was conducted using repeated investigation...

BACKGROUND Women and minorities remain underrepresented in orthopaedic surgery. In an attempt to increase the diversity of those entering the physician workforce, Nth Dimensions implemented a targeted pipeline curriculum that includes the Orthopaedic Summer Internship Program. The program exposes medical students to the specialty of orthopaedic surgery and equips students to be competitive appl...

OBJECTIVE To assess the opinions of emergency medicine (EM) residents and program directors about the value of completing a nonrequired 1-year internship before entering an EM residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). METHODS An eight-question, self-administered online survey was e-mailed to EM residents who had completed a nonrequired i...