What are Internal Medicine program directors worried about these days?

From survey data:


Key Points


* Internal medicine residency program directors are concerned about declining interest in internal medicine among medical students, and in primary care among residency graduates.


* Program directors are concerned about burdensome regulatory oversight of graduate medical education and medical practice, economic pressures affecting medical education and career choice, the eighty-hour work week, and fragmentation within internal medicine.


* The findings related to declining interest in internal medicine careers have implications for health policy reform.