Training. Residencies in internal medicine are 3 years long which is the same for most of the other primary care specialties as well. The benefit of internal medicine over the other primary care specialties is that there are much more fellowships for you to specialize in afterwards.
That means that a full online degree, including textbooks and other supplies needed, will probably require an investment of about $7,500 per semester, or about $30,000 total. Certificate programs, even at a fairly high professional level, can cost less because they involve fewer courses.
The average cost of tuition per credit hour for online graduate courses is typically higher than that of online undergraduate courses. This cost is generally between $100 and $125 more per credit hour. Among schools that charge in this range for online graduate courses for the 15/16 academic year are Columbia College Online and Bellevue University, both private non-profit schools.