Why Internal Medicine Program Directors Remain in Their Positions and Are Effective and Thrive: A Qualitative Study

Affiliations

• ¹ Associate Professor of Medicine, Residency Program Director at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Medicine, Philadelphia, Penn. Electronic address: Emily.stewart@jefferson.edu.
• ² Assistant Director of Surveys and Research, Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, Alexandria, Va.
• ³ Professor of Medicine, Residency Program Director at Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisc.
• ⁴ Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean for GME and Vice Chair for Education at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Medicine, Philadelphia, Penn.
• ⁵ Professor of Medicine, Residency Program Director and Vice Chair for Education at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY.
• ⁶ Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for Education, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.
• ⁷ Professor of Medicine, Program Director and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham.