General medicine vs Internist

[sexobon]

I go to a group practice affiliated with a teaching hospital and let the internal medicine residents practice on me. They tell me what they think is causing my issue and I ask them what atypical causes there are for my presentation. Sometimes they politely leave and come back with their attending who usually comes up with something the resident hadn't considered and asks the right questions to rule it out. The residents' diagnoses stand so they feel good about themselves while they learned something. They seem to like this old military instructor who remembers how it was competing for patients to practice on (during core rotations).