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Career Opportunities
Given medicine's move toward managed care and integrated care, as well as a renewed emphasis on the doctor-patient relationship, the spotlight is shining on primary care. Indeed, general internal medicine has become the core of many health care systems.
A Wealth of Choice
Residents may expect individual attention from the faculty in pursuing their career goals. Our graduates can enter private practice, manage a primary care organization, work as part of an HMO, participate in an academic training program, teach both students and residents, or pursue research or clinical fellowships in general internal medicine. Currently, the division is developing its own General Internal Medicine Fellowship. Research might be in prevention, improved patient outcomes, clinical epidemiology, or medical education. For instance, several faculty members-Drs. Jacobson, Williams, Parker, and Rask-are graduates of general medicine fellowship programs, such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, which facilitates research in health policy, clinical epidemiology, and humanities and medicine, among other topics.
Residents can learn more about the dynamics of the medical marketplace by making use of Emory's Center for Healthcare Leadership. The center specializes in organizational and management psychology and health care marketing. Services of the center include physician executive education seminars, assessment of executive health care leadership, and development of patient-satisfaction measurement systems.
Recent graduates have moved on to many exciting different positions.