Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine
Their treatment generally includes the surgery process. This field of medicine deals with non-surgical treatment of diseases by diagnosis through study and management with medication. However, severe and terminal illnesses are also treated by general physicians where they merely guide the patient as to what steps to follow as a precaution and how to reduce the condition.
Internal Medicine is the branch of medical doctors that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment and multi-system diseases and their processes.The doctors were known to be internal medicine doctors because they focused on the “inner” diseases instead of the external manifestations of those diseases.
Family physician training involves:
- Adult critical care (1 month)
- Care for children in the hospital or emergency settings (nearly 2 months)
- Geriatric care (1 month)
- Gynecology (1 month)
- Musculoskeletal medicine (2 months)
- Newborn encounters
- Obstetrics (2 months)
- Surgery (1 month)
How is Internal medicine different from other medical practices
It explores the underlying pathological causes of symptoms and syndromes with the help of laboratory and clinical assessment of bedside patients and emergency wards.A lot of people often confuse family physicians with Internal medicine doctors, the family doctors also treat children occasionally, Internal medicine doctors do not usually tend to children. According to the American College of Physicians, 10-15 percent of patients that family physicians deal with, are children. All internal doctors need inpatient and outpatient settings for their procedures. Internists usually treat adults.
Medical Procedures
- Allergy and Immunology (immune system)
- Cardiovascular Disease (heart and vascular system)
- Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- Interventional Cardiology
- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Transplant Hepatology
- Hematology (blood)
- Nephrology (kidneys)
- Oncology (cancer)