Master of Internal Medicine is the highest award granted by the Chilean Society of Internal Medicine (Sociedad Medica de Santiago) to its members. Since this award was instituted. in 1981, the Society has given it periodically to the most distinguished Chilean Physicians. All nominees are considered a model as a physician. medical educator and person, to be emulated by the future generations, with the responsibility of maintaining the spirit, the prestige and the projection, of Internal Medicine into the future. This year, on the ocassion of the XXIXth Chilean Congress of Internal Medicine, the title of << Master of Internal Medicine >> was awarded to Manuel Garcia de los Rios, M.D., M.A.C.P Dr Garcia de los Rios is Professor of Medicine at the University of Chile School of Medicine, Member of the National Academy of Medicine (Chile) and Master of the American College of Physicians, among several other national and international distinctions in the fields of Internal Medicine and Diabetology. The following list updata the names of those Chilean physicians that have been awarded this distinction (Rev Med Chile 2007: 135: 1470-73).