Table 9.

Categories and issues for the theme, “Proposals to improve quality of life for future internal medicine residents”

Category	Issues	Examples
Infrastructure	On-call room Bathrooms Socialization space Eating	“An adequate on-call room, wow, that makes a big difference.” “A clean bathroom would be amazing. Having a bathroom, wow. Seriously. Very nice.” “There could be an area that was half for socializing and half library.” “Improve the food! “Better food over at the Palhetas restaurant.”
Tutoring	Adequacy for internship	“Maybe R2 are the ones who most need the tutoring, but they have the least time to go.”
Teaching methodology	Non-compulsory theory classes	"An important class that explained the new guidelines. These are things that we have to keep up-to-date on.”
Human resources	Multidisciplinary team Supervision	“Hire more nurses.” “I’d invest in training on nursing techniques.” “The dull stint in the ER, if you had someone good to discuss the cases, who brought me relevant information with current scientific knowledge, awesome.”
Hospital functioning	Computer system Decreased bureaucracy	“The system. Fix the computers. Man, the system drags us down. Seriously, not good enough. The system wastes a lot of time. The thing is, we could be with the patient, but we waste a lot of time in the system, you know. It’s a ton of bureaucracy to solve. So, if I could spend money...”