I've been looking through my MSAR book and noticed that nearly in every medical school, internal medicine is the favored specialty choice. This is probably a dumb question, but why is this?
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Why internal medicine?
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1. Lots of spots for IM (i.e. one of the largest residencies)
2. It leads to many many many fellowship subspecialties (e.g. cardio, ID, ...)
My guess would be it's because internal medicine includes tons of stuff- e.g. cardiology, endocrinology, GI stuff, lungs, kidneys, blood- really it's like over a dozen categories lumped into one.
what do you mean by "favored"?
Probably that internal medicine has the most applicants from each school, which is true at most schools.
Most physicians are internists if you include IM subspecialists in addition to primary care/hospitalists, IM has the most residency spots, once you turn 16 the physician you go to is an internist (or family practitioner/OBGYN), many of the specialists an individual will go to for various medical problems go through an IM residency followed by a fellowship. All of the pathophysiology you learn in second year of medical school is taught by pathologists (the disease basis) and the IM subspecialists in that organ system (the clinical basis).
