Changes in the National Residency Matching Program Policy: Are Internal Medicine Program Directors “All-In”?

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Michael Adams, MD, FACP, is Program Director of Medicine at Georgetown University; Thomas B. Morrison, MD, is Fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University; Stephanie Call, MD, is Program Director of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University; Andrew J. Halvorsen, MS, is Biostatistician and Project and Data Manager in the Internal Medicine Residency Office of Educational Innovations at Mayo Clinic; Jared Moore, MD, is Chief Medical Resident in Internal Medicine at Ohio State University; Maria Lucarelli, MD, is Associate Program Director in Internal Medicine at Ohio State University; Steven Angus, MD, is Program Director of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center; and Furman S. McDonald, MD, MPH, is Program Director of Internal Medicine Residency Office of Educational Innovations at the Mayo Clinic. Funding: This study was supported in part by the Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Residency Office of Educational Innovations as part of the ACGME Educational Innovations Project. The Mayo Clinic Survey Research Center provided assistance with the survey design and data collection. We are grateful for the support of the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine and the members of the Survey Committee and to the residency program directors who completed the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) survey. While we are reporting the results of the APDIM Survey Committee, we are not presuming to speak for the organization and our paper does not constitute an official policy statement of APDIM, the APDIM Council, or any other organzation with which any of the authors may be affiliated.