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CDIM is the organization of individuals responsible for teaching internal medicine to medical students.

CDIM Highlights

CMS Proposed Rule to Reduce Medicaid DSH Allotments by $500 Million

Education Redesign Advisory Board Endorses Internal Medicine Milestones

HHS and Congress Target Money in ACA Prevention and Public Health Fund

Free E-Subscriptions to AJM Available for US Internal Medicine Residents

White House FY 2014 Proposed Budget Reduces GME Payments by $11 Billion

ACGME Releases Focused Revision to Common Program Requirements for Review and Comment

Promote Your Charter Association during International Travel!

Many members travel abroad to attend conferences or serve as consultants to international medical education programs. When traveling, consider promoting your charter association and its resources. Valuable resources for international faculty and staff include educational programming, textbooks, and online curriculum and evaluation tools.

Download the International Membership application and join today!

Resources for the Subinternship

CDIM has several resources available for the internal medicine subinternship.

Primer to the Internal Medicine Subinternship

Developed by the CDIM Subinternship Task Force, the Primer aims to help students succeed in the internal medicine subinternship and provides helpful information to prepare students for their internship year. The Primer addresses subjects such as:

Consultations
Tips for triaging cross-cover
Negotiating conflict
Delivering bad news
Obtaining advanced directives
Writing transfer notes
Discharge planning, counseling, and summaries
Tips for work/life balance
Documenting procedures

Subinternship Curriculum and Training Problems

The CDIM Subinternship Task Force created curriculum resources for teaching during the internal medicine subinternship/acting internship.

The training problems are based on the learning objectives for the CDIM Subinternship Curriculum and common inpatient scenarios, including cross-coverage situations. The student's version contains the cases and questions while the teacher's version contains answers to the questions based on each case. Only CDIM members can access the teacher's version.

SIMPLE

The Simulated Internal Medicine Patient Learning Experience (SIMPLE) is a comprehensive Internet-based learning program for use by core internal medicine clerkship students. SIMPLE's 36 interactive virtual patient cases are designed to comprehensively cover the CDIM-Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Core Medicine Clerkship Curriculum.

SIMPLE is designed to supplement traditional clerkship teaching and patient care activities. It provides medical students and clerkship directors access to peer-reviewed learning materials that provide a solid foundation in internal medicine medical knowledge appropriate to the core clerkship student.