Christian T. Cable M.D.

Yun, H.C., Cable, C.T., Pizzimenti, D., Desai, S.S., Muchmore, E.A., Vasilias, J., Thomas, C., Nasca, T.J. and Lieh-Lai, M.W. (2020). “Internal Medicine 2035: Preparing the Future Generation of Internists.” J Grad Med Educ 12(6): 797-800

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Residency education should prepare physicians for practice. While no one would intentionally design a residency program otherwise, planning program requirements to meet this aim is difficult. Substantial changes in program requirements take years to establish. With the rapid changes in health care, program requirements that are appropriate in 2020 will be out of date by the time that the residents trained entirely under those requirements graduate. [No abstract; excerpt from article].