Internal Medicine

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Conversational Advice": A mixed-methods analysis of medical residents' experiences co-managing primary care patients with behavioral health providers. 
  • "I wish I had seen this test result earlier!": Dissatisfaction with test result management systems in primary care. 
  • 'So you want to be a clinician-educator...': designing a clinician-educator curriculum for internal medicine residents. 
  • A Web-based compendium of clinical questions and medical evidence to educate internal medicine residents. 
  • A comparative resident site visit project: a novel approach for implementing programmatic change in the duty hours era. 
  • A comparison of knowledge, synthesis, and clinical judgment. Multiple-choice questions in the assessment of physician competence. 
  • A controlled trial of a short course to improve residents' communication with patients at the end of life. 
  • A multimethod quality improvement intervention to improve preventive cardiovascular care: a cluster randomized trial. 
  • A qualitative analysis of career transitions made by internal medicine-pediatrics residency training graduates. 
  • A survey of health care practitioners' knowledge of the QT interval. 
  • A word of thanks. 
  • ACCF/AHA/ACR/SCAI/SIR/SVM/SVN/SVS 2010 performance measures for adults with peripheral artery disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures, the American College of Radiology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, the Society for Interventional Radiology, the Society for Vascular Medicine, the Society for Vascular Nursing, and the Society for Vascular Surgery (Writing Committee to Develop Clinical Performance Measures for Peripheral Artery Disease). 
  • ACGME duty-hour recommendations - a national survey of residency program directors. 
  • Academic general internal medicine: a mission for the future. 
  • Acceptance of external funds by physician organizations: issues and policy options. 
  • Adoption of a Uniform Start Date for Internal Medicine Fellowships and Other Advanced Training: An AAIM White Paper. 
  • Adoption of thrombolytic therapy in the management of acute myocardial infarction. 
  • All primary care trainees are not the same: the role of economic factors and career choice. 
  • An Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA)-Based Framework to Prepare Fourth-Year Medical Students for Internal Medicine Careers. 
  • An analysis of the knowledge base of practicing internists as measured by the 1980 recertification examination. 
  • An educational intervention to improve internal medicine interns' awareness of hazards of hospitalization in acutely ill older adults. 
  • An experimental transformation of a large expert knowledge base. 
  • An initiative in mentoring to promote residents' and faculty members' careers. 
  • Application Inflation for Internal Medicine Applicants in the Match: Drivers, Consequences, and Potential Solutions. 
  • Assessing the practices and perceptions of dually-trained physicians: a pilot study. 
  • Associations between resident physicians' publications and clinical performance during residency training. 
  • Blind internist passes board exam. 
  • Breast cancer screening in older women: practices and barriers reported by primary care physicians. 
  • Breast cancer screening in older women: the geriatrician/internist perspective. 
  • Career outcomes of the graduates of the American Board of Internal Medicine Research Pathway, 1995-2007. 
  • Certification in diagnostic laboratory immunology. 
  • Chaplains on the Medical Team: A Qualitative Analysis of an Interprofessional Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents and Chaplain Interns. 
  • Classifying general medicine readmissions. Are they preventable? Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies in Health Services Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmissions. 
  • Clinical rheumatology training of primary care physicians: the resident perspective. 
  • Comparing perceptions of training for medicine-pediatrics and categorically trained physicians. 
  • Comparison of housestaff's estimates of their workday activities with results of a random work-sampling study. 
  • Crying: experiences and attitudes of third-year medical students and interns. 
  • Debriefing in the intensive care unit: a feedback tool to facilitate bedside teaching. 
  • Demystifying Spiritual Care: An Interprofessional Approach for Teaching Residents and Hospital Chaplains to Work Together. 
  • Description and preliminary evaluation of an orientation module to teach general internal medicine. 
  • Detection and management of mental health problems of older patients by primary care providers. 
  • Development and initial testing of a computer-based patient decision aid to promote colorectal cancer screening for primary care practice. 
  • Diabetes Quality of Care Before and After Implementation of a Resident Clinic Practice Partnership System. 
  • Do physicians know when their diagnoses are correct? Implications for decision support and error reduction. 
  • Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients' satisfaction? 
  • Do we practice what we preach? A qualitative assessment of resident-preceptor interactions for adherence to evidence-based practice. 
  • Does increased access to primary care reduce hospital readmissions? Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmission. 
  • Duty hour recommendations and implications for meeting the ACGME core competencies: views of residency directors. 
  • Effect of a Community-Based Service Learning Experience in Geriatrics on Internal Medicine Residents and Community Participants. 
  • Effectiveness of medical resident education in mechanical ventilation. 
  • Enhancing the Role of Internists in the Transition From Pediatric to Adult Health Care. 
  • Enhancing the Role of Internists in the Transition From Pediatric to Adult Health Care. 
  • Epidemiology and screening for prostate cancer. 
  • Evaluating humanistic attributes of internal medicine residents. 
  • Evaluation of self-perception of mechanical ventilation knowledge among Brazilian final-year medical students, residents and emergency physicians. 
  • Exploring the generalist-subspecialist interface in internal medicine. 
  • Factors Associated with Declining Residency Program Pass Rates on the ABIM Certification Examination. 
  • Factors in medical students' selection and ranking of combined medicine-pediatrics programs. 
  • Faculty development for the 21st century: lessons from the Society of General Internal Medicine-Hartford Collaborative Centers for the Care of Older Adults. 
  • Feasibility of point-of-care echocardiography by internal medicine house staff. 
  • Florida's response to the Physician's National Cholesterol Education Program. 
  • General internal medicine. 
  • General internists influence students to choose primary care careers: the power of role modeling. 
  • General internists' preferences and knowledge about the care of adult survivors of childhood cancer: a cross-sectional survey. 
  • How do doctors use information in real-time? A qualitative study of internal medicine resident precepting. 
  • Improving Timely Resident Follow-Up and Communication of Results in Ambulatory Clinics Utilizing a Web-Based Audit and Feedback Module. 
  • Interactions between pharmaceutical representatives and doctors in training. A thematic review. 
  • Internal Medicine Residents' Ambulatory Management of Core Geriatric Conditions. 
  • International health and internal medicine residency training: the Duke University experience. 
  • Interprofessional communication skills training for serious illness: evaluation of a small-group, simulated patient intervention. 
  • Knowledge and attitudes about depression among non-generalists and generalists. 
  • Knowledge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2006 routine HIV testing recommendations among New York City internal medicine residents. 
  • Lessons learned. 
  • Leveraging time and learning style, iPod vs. realtime attendance at a series of medicine residents conferences: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Lying to each other: when internal medicine residents use deception with their colleagues. 
  • Medical training debt and service commitments: the rural consequences. 
  • Methods guide for authors of systematic reviews of medical tests: a collaboration between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. 
  • Milestone-Based Assessments Are Superior to Likert-Type Assessments in Illustrating Trainee Progression. 
  • Milestones for training safe doctors who are good doctors. 
  • Multisociety task force recommendations of competencies in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. 
  • New Roadmap for the Journey From Internist to Rheumatologist. 
  • New transient ischemic attack and stroke: outpatient management by primary care physicians. 
  • Outcome of acute myocardial infarction according to the specialty of the admitting physician. 
  • Outpatient prescribing errors and the impact of computerized prescribing. 
  • Oversimplifying primary care supply and shortages. 
  • Patient-physician discussions about costs: definitions and impact on cost conversation incidence estimates. 
  • Peer review in ambulatory care: use of explicit criteria and implicit judgments. 
  • Perceptions of the certification standards of the American Board of Internal Medicine. 
  • Performance of Caribbean medical school graduates on the American Board of Internal Medicine Certifying Examinations, 1984-1986. 
  • Performance of four computer-based diagnostic systems. 
  • Perspective: Whither the problem list? Organ-based documentation and deficient synthesis by medical trainees. 
  • Physician Beliefs about Physical and Mental Competency of Patients Applying for Concealed Weapon Permits. 
  • Physician communication in managed care organizations: opinions of primary care physicians. 
  • Physician resource use and willingness to participate in assisted suicide. 
  • Physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law: comparing Denmark and the USA. 
  • Playing with curricular milestones in the educational sandbox: Q-sort results from an internal medicine educational collaborative. 
  • Predictors of the performance of foreign medical graduates on the 1982 certifying examination in internal medicine. 
  • Prescribing "placebo treatments": results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists. 
  • Primary care approach to dysphonia. 
  • Primary care physicians' approach to depressive disorders. Effects of physician specialty and practice structure. 
  • Provider specialty and atrial fibrillation treatment strategies in United States community practice: findings from the ORBIT-AF registry. 
  • Psychotropic drugs on general medical and surgical wards of a teaching hospital. 
  • Randomized trial for answers to clinical questions: evaluating a pre-appraised versus a MEDLINE search protocol. 
  • Randomized trial of web-based training about opioid therapy for chronic pain. 
  • Ratings of residents' clinical competence and performance on certification examination. 
  • Reflective Writing to Teach Interdisciplinary Management of Delirium to Internal Medicine Residents. 
  • Relationship between physician specialty and the selection and outcome of ischemic stroke patients. 
  • Reliability, validity and efficiency of multiple choice question and patient management problem item formats in assessment of clinical competence. 
  • Resident Dyads Providing Transition Care to Adolescents and Young Adults With Chronic Illnesses and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. 
  • Resident approaches to advance care planning on the day of hospital admission. 
  • Resident learning across the full range of core competencies through a transitions of care curriculum. 
  • Resident research: why some do and others don't. 
  • Residents' Confidence Providing Primary Care With Behavioral Health Integration. 
  • Should physicians screen for oral disease? A physical examination study of the oral cavity. 
  • Steady thoughts. Reflections of Eugene Stead in action. 
  • Students' perceptions of the effectiveness of interns' teaching during the internal medicine clerkship. 
  • Study of required clerkships in internal medicine in U.S. and Canadian medical schools. 
  • Symposium: Results of a national study of a computer simulation (CASE) and the American Board of Internal Medicine's recertification examination: the MERIT Project. 
  • Teaching the medical interview: an intervention study. 
  • The American Board of Internal Medicine recertification examination: process and results. 
  • The Burden of Burnout. 
  • The Development and Evaluation of a Novel Instrument Assessing Residents' Discharge Summaries. 
  • The Effect of Paging Reminders on Fellowship Conference Attendance: A Multi-Program Randomized Crossover Study. 
  • The Internal Medicine Subinternship--Now More Important than Ever: A Joint CDIM-APDIM Position Paper. 
  • The changing face of general internal medicine and lessons learned from geriatric medicine. 
  • The combined medical specialties unit: an innovative approach to patient care. 
  • The composition of intern work while on call. 
  • The development of a primary care curriculum for obstetrics/gynecology residents. 
  • The diabetes education study. 
  • The effect of changes in medical knowledge on examination performance at the time of recertification. 
  • The effects of physician specialty and patient comorbidities on the use and discontinuation of coxibs. 
  • The future internist. The Task Force on the Future Internist, American Board of Internal Medicine. 
  • The medical-psychiatric unit and psychosocial education of internists. 
  • The relationship between features of residency training and ABIM certifying examination performance. 
  • The scoring and reproducibility of an essay test of clinical judgment. 
  • The time has come for vascular medicine. 
  • The validity of an essay test of clinical judgment. 
  • Time analysis of a general medicine service: results from a random work sampling study. 
  • Transforming primary care residency training: a collaborative faculty development initiative among family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric residencies. 
  • Trends in physician management of uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction, 1970 to 1987. 
  • Tricyclic antidepressant prescribing for nonpsychiatric disorders. An analysis based on data from the 1985 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. 
  • Update on the American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Program: a report of the American College of Cardiology's Educational Quality Review Board. 
  • Use and perceptions of clinical practice guidelines by internal medicine physicians. 
  • Use of global coronary heart disease risk assessment in practice: a cross-sectional survey of a sample of U.S. physicians. 
  • Value in workplace-based assessment rater training: psychometrics or edumetrics? 
  • Why not nephrology? A survey of US internal medicine subspecialty fellows. 
  • Working group 1: How to increase the output of cardiologists. 
  • Working group 8: Defining the different types of cardiovascular specialists and developing a new model for training general clinical cardiologists. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Griffith, Brian Carey, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Zipkin, Daniella Ann, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine