“The most popular categorical and advanced specialties chosen this year by our 97 matching students were internal medicine (26), pediatrics (12), psychiatry (10), emergency medicine and general surgery (8 each), and anesthesiology and obstetrics-gynecology (7 each).”
@Fstratford, isn’t the distribution a function of specialty interest? Are you thinking that Pritzker graduates too many primary-care physicians as opposed to sub-specialists?
Wondering if there is a correlation between interests in internal medicine and academia. My dad, an internist and nephrologist (retired now), was also on faculty at a medical school for a number of years. What’s interesting is that he was always interested in academia and now I’m wondering if he chose IM in order to make that happen. He also opted for nephrology because dialysis was this new thing at the time and demand for trained kidney docs was very high. It certainly helped in his career as he had a couple of offers to head of the dept. of Kidney Disease in addition to his academic work. So it’s possible that IM is a gateway to more interesting diseases. Just speculation - would be great to get more feedback on this.