Medical Xpress August 9, 2024
CU Anschutz Medical Campus

New research shows how the chief resident position in academic internal medicine residency programs has evolved over the past 20 years, revealing how the position has changed, the types of careers these individuals pursue, and improvement in gender representation.

These findings, published this summer by the American Journal of Medicine, stem from a 20-year multicenter study that involved the University of Colorado Internal Medicine Residency Program. CU Department of Medicine faculty member William Turbyfill, MD, was among the study’s site investigators.

Turbyfill, who practices in the Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System, is part of a collective of hospitalists who are interested in research throughout the VA. He says the lead author of the study, Tyler J. Albert, MD,...

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