title: [Post-graduate education in internal medicine in the United Kingdom: issues for comparative evaluation].
abstract: The structure and the organization of Internal Medicine post-graduate training in the United Kingdom are described. Those aspects that differentiate the British and the Italian post-doctoral training in Internal Medicine are highlighted. Considerations are made about the different nature of an analytic British education as compared to the synthetic approach of the Italian curriculum. The widespread United Kingdom policy of an Internal Medicine approach to clinical training before entering the medical sub-specialty practice is also underscored.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra e Divisione di Medicina Interna, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Seconda Università degli Studi, Ospedale Gesù e Maria di Napoli. emanuele.durante@unina2.it
authors.forename: Emanuele
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Durante Mangoni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004501:Education, Medical; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D020445:Hospitalists / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007558:Italy; D013038:Specialization; D006113:United Kingdom