Internal medicine is a medical specialty which focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of nonsurgical conditions in adults. This specialty has a number of subspecialties ranging from nephrology, the study of the kidneys, to immunology, the study of allergies and immune system disorders....
What is Internal Medicine? language=engInternal Medicine can be defined as a medical specialty devoted to the comprehensive care of adult patients, focused in the diagnosis and non s... RB Humberto - 《Revista Médica De Chile》 被引量: 21发表: 2006年 What Is Internal Medicine? language=eng...
When it comes to what is internal medicine vs family medicine, it can be tough to know where the line is. Careers in internal medicine (IM) and family medicine (FM) have a lot in common, but as we’ll see, there are some important differences between the two specialties. If you...
An internal medicine residency is a rather competitive thing to get. That is, it's harder to get into more prestigious programs. The pay is not like the pay of a seasoned physician either. It's usually somewhere around $45,000 to $70,000 dollars (American money). The average internal ...
Further evidence that we are unable to define our own specialty is brought out by the brochure of the Society of Internal Medicine. We as internists are at the crossroads of survival as a specialty and as a distinct entity. The public does not need an explanation as to the function of a...
A nephrologist is a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating conditions that affect your kidneys, such as kidney failure and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Nephrology is a specialty within the internal medicine field. If you have symptoms of a kidney condition, your doctor will likely ref...
Family practice is now called family medicine, which is a medical specialty that is completely devoted to the healthcare of all age groups. The specialist, in this case, is called a family doctor or a family physician. It is a division of primary care that provides a ...
An attending physician is a medical doctor who has completed all residency training. They are board-certified or eligible to practice independently in a particular specialty.3 An attending physician typically supervises fellows, residents, and medical students and may also be a professor at an affili...
Endocrinology is a subspecialty of internal medicine. Training for endocrinologists includes a bachelor's degree (usually 4 years), followed by medical school (also usually 4 years). After that, they complete a 2-3 year residency program in internal medicine or sometimes pediatrics to get experienc...
An interspecialty comparison. Ambulatory care, accounting for over half a billion visits to physicians per year, is a major component of the health-care system and is the core of primar... RA Rosenblatt,DC Cherkin,R Schneeweiss,... - 《New England Journal of Medicine》 被引量: 299发表: ...