Print | Email Redesigning Internal Medicine Education 

This document accompanies the article entitled, “Redesigning Residency Training in Internal Medicine: The Consensus Report of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Education Redesign Task Force,” which was published in the December 2007 edition of Academic Medicine.

 As stated in the article:

"The core of internal medicine defines the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that a resident must attain for advancement to independent practice, fellowship, or other internal medicine career pathways. In addition, all internists, including internal medicine subspecialists, should maintain proficiency in the core throughout their careers, regardless of their ultimate career pathway or scope of practice. The internal medicine core therefore provides a framework for building the structure and content of formal training, evaluation, certification, continuing medical education, and maintenance of certification."

Comments on the Core of Internal Medicine are welcome. Please email comments to policy@im.org.

In 2007, representatives of the internal medicine community were charged to operationalize the six Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies with specific behavioral milestones using a developmental framework.  Although no orgnanization has endorsed the milestones in their current version, it is anticipated that residency program directors will ultimately incorporate a future version of the milestones into their evaluation systems to ensure that residents acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes for advancing in their training program and entering the next phase of their internal medicine careers.

The initial draft of the milestones and short surveys about your views of them are available on the American Board of Internal Medicine website.  Please review the draft milestones and complete the survey by the end of July 2009.