Clinical & career
resources
A working library for internal-medicine trainees — the databases, guides, and references Dr. Bray keeps coming back to, rebuilt to stay current and easy to search.
Medical Conferences
IM and subspecialty meetings for 2026–2027 — filter by year, national vs. Florida focus, and specialty.
Open the guide → DatabaseSocieties & Organizations
Professional societies worth joining, by specialty, cost, and scope of membership.
Open the directory → DatabaseJournals Database
Internal-medicine journals ranked by quartile, impact, and open-access cost.
Open the database → DatabaseResearch Databases
Where to find datasets and evidence sources for scholarly and QI projects.
Open the explorer → Clinical referenceIM Updates
Practice-changing guidelines, trials, and key publications from the past six months — each linked to its primary source, refreshed twice a year.
Read the digest → Clinical referenceIM Specialty Research Cards
The landmark trials behind internal-medicine practice, one subspecialty at a time — an at-a-glance infographic plus every study linked to its primary paper with a brief summary.
Open the cards → ApplyingResidency Application Timeline
The 18–24 months to the Match, at a glance, for U.S. MD and DO graduates — the fixed ERAS/NRMP dates, a month-by-month plan, and the specialty-by-specialty nuances that change it. Built around the projected 2028 Match. (IMGs have their own version.)
Open the timeline → CareerIM Career Paths
What a career actually looks like in each IM pathway — the work, the competitiveness, the lifestyle, the pay, who thrives, and what it means for IMGs.
Explore the paths → PerspectivesPerspectives
Longer-form, cited analysis from Dr. Bray on the forces shaping how physicians are trained, paid, and admitted to practice — the primary-care workforce, the H-1B and the physician pipeline, and more to come.
Open Perspectives → Medical educationThe IM Bootcamp
A free, program-agnostic three-day intensive for incoming IM interns — case-based sessions from the 2 a.m. page to money, boards, and burnout, plus assessment tools and the PGY-2/3 transition series.
Open the bootcamp → Medical educationResearch 101
A four-block deep-dive into scholarly work for new IM interns — the publishable case report, the writing-to-submission pipeline, study design and basic biostats, and the mentorship that gets residents through the thorny path.
Open Research 101 → Board prepABIM Certification Guide
A complete plan for the 2026 ABIM Internal Medicine exam — blueprint, QBanks, timeline, and courses.
Read the guide → Board prepBoard Blind Spots
Twenty board-style questions on the topics residents most often miss — pick an answer to reveal the teaching, the trap, and a primary source.
Test yourself → InteractiveProgram Evaluation Checklists
Score and compare residency programs — Internal Medicine and General Surgery — then export your results.
Open the checklists → InteractiveClinical Cases
Work through real diagnostic reasoning, one decision at a time — morning-report style.
Open cases → For IMGsFor International Medical Graduates
On the U.S. residency path? The IMG hub — USCE, research and education options, interviews, the Match, SOAP, and going unmatched.
Open the IMG hub →