KevinMD October 26, 2025
Students have been sharing with me their reasons for deciding to pursue a career in internal medicine, a fitting topic for this year’s upcoming Internal Medicine Day. The most moving stories are those describing them seeing the person behind the patient, often for the first time.
Many students also mention, of course, their attraction to solving puzzles, the thrill of making a diagnosis, and their desire to have impact, wanting to change the practice of medicine for the better. All of this bodes well for the internal medicine physicians of the future.
Many of the students at our medical school have an engineering background, and one of the soft concerns expressed early on was “but will the students be able...
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