Will there be room for the teaching of internal medicine in a university hospital?

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To answer the question addressed, two working groups, one made of the staff of a University clinic, the other one composed of practising general internists, have discussed the assets and weaknesses of a University service of Internal Medicine for postgraduate training. The groups agreed on a number of points:
patients' characteristics (complexity and co-morbidities), quality of teaching, method acquisition for clinical reasoning, as well as absence of exposure to ambulatory patients and of follow-up. The groups differed in their views related to the lack of training in psychiatry and psychosocial problems or to hospital dysfunctions. Opening of internal medicine to primary care appears to be necessary at the same time as individual qualities among the senior staff are to be developed, such as critical analysis and self-questioning.

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Author/s: Junod, Alain F (AF);

Affiliation: Medical Clinic I, University Hospital, CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Swiss medical weekly : official journal of the Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases, the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, the Swiss Society of Pneumology (Swiss Med Wkly), published in Switzerland. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jan; vol 132 (issue 1-2) : pp 4-6

Dates: Created 2002/03/19; Completed 2002/05/10; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 11901444, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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