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Fellowship programs in general internal medicine should be designed to train outstanding academic internists to serve as future faculty and leaders in the field. Although programs may vary widely in their specific components, all should share a number of characteristics and goals. In this document, the Society of General Internal Medicine outlines basic principles and guidelines for fellowship training, states that its own PCIM Directory will explicitly require that programs indicate how they conform to them, and indicates its interest in considering a formal fellowship accreditation process in the future.
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Initially prepared for SGIM by William Beckett, Ralph Horwitz, Margaret Drickamer, and Nicholas Feibach of the Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, with the assistance of Robert S. Dittus, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. The statement has been edited by Lee Goldman and Robert Fletcher, past presidents of SGIM.
The statement was submitted to the membership for review and comment in the December 1993SGIM Newsletter. This was adopted as policy by the Council at the January 6 meeting.
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Society of General Internal Medicine. Policy statement for general internal medicine fellowships. J Gen Intern Med 9, 513–516 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02599222
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