The future of general internal medicine. Report and recommendations from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Task Force on the Domain of General Internal Medicine.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on January 01, 2004

Authors

Eric B Larson1, Stephan D Fihn, Lynne M Kirk, Wendy Levinson, Ronald V Loge, Eileen Reynolds, Lewis Sandy, Steven Schroeder, Neil Wenger, Mark Williams, Task Force on the Domain of General Internal Medicine. Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)

Author Affiliations

1: Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, Washington 98101-1448, USA. larson.e@ghc.org

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