[Highlights 2007 in hospital-based internal medicine: the point of view from the chief residents].

L'annee 2007 a ete marquee par la publication de plusieurs etudes internationales concernant directement le quotidien de l'interniste hospitalier. Un resume de ces travaux ne saurait etre qu'un extrait condense et forcement subjectif d'une croissante et dynamique diversite. Au gre de leurs lectures, de leurs interets et de leurs interrogations, les chefs de clinique du Service de medecine interne vous proposent ainsi un parcours original revisitant les themes de l'insuffisance cardiaque, du diabete, de l'endocardite, de la BPCO ou de la qualite des soins. Cette variete de sujets illustre a la fois le vaste champ couvert par la medecine interne actuelle, ainsi que les nombreuses incertitudes liees a la pratique medicale moderne basee sur les preuves. In 2007, several international studies brought useful information for the daily work of internists in hospital settings. This summary is of course subjective but reflects the interests and questions of the chief residents of the Department of internal medicine who wrote this article like an original trip in medical literature. This trip will allow you to review some aspects of important fields such as heart failure, diabetes, endocarditis, COPD, and quality of care. Besides the growing diversity of the fields covered by internal medicine, these various topics underline also the uncertainty internists have to face in a practice directed towards evidence.