[Does internal medicine still survive?].

The author suggest in his lecture in the present of the well versed Royal Academy National of Medicine, the concept, current situation and future of Internal Medicine. After a brief explanation of its creation and development, in several european and north american medical schools, he analyzes the present situation of Internal Medicine coming to the conclusion that, as a result of the fragmentation of medicine into countless sub-specialties, its survival is even being questioned as a medical specialty itself.