[Post-graduate education in internal medicine : what do residents want ?]

The post-graduate education course in general internal medicine - which leads to the accreditation as a specialist - is established by l'Institut Suisse de Formation médicale (ISFM), one of the organs of the FMH (Federatio Medicorum Helveticorum) in collaboration with the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine (SSGIM). This program sets inter alia the necessary learning steps and defines which tools are efficient in monitoring the teaching program. The specific goals defined in the course are not, however, easily reached, specifically in the internal medicine services of hospitals that are subject to organisational constraints. This is strongly highlighted in the assessments made by residents during these training years. It, therefore, seems necessary to implicate the residents more actively in the definition of the goals of their training to maintain and continuously improve the quality of their post-graduate education.