Post-graduate education in internal medicine in the United Kingdom: issues for comparative evaluation
Durante Mangoni, E.
Annali Italiani di Medicina Interna Organo Ufficiale Della Societa Italiana di Medicina Interna 17(4): 265-270
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0393-9340 PMID: 12532567 Document Number: 542352
The structure and the organization of Internal Medicine post-graduate training in the United Kingdom are described. Those aspects that differentiate the British and the Italian post-doctoral training in Internal Medicine are highlighted. Considerations are made about the different nature of an analytic British education as compared to the synthetic approach of the Italian curriculum. The widespread United Kingdom policy of an Internal Medicine approach to clinical training before entering the medical sub-specialty practice is also underscored.