Core Adult Internal Medicine Disciplines

The following sections deal with the core adult internal medicine disciplines in alphabetical order. Each discipline is a subspecialty of adult internal medicine that is available for vocational training at advanced training level. Each section is divided into Topics and Practical Skills for all Trainees. Medical knowledge and therefore the contents of these sections are changing rapidly, and they will be reviewed with each revision of this handbook to ensure that they remain current.

In addition, there are sections on general medicine, paediatrics, dermatology and psychiatry. General medicine is a compulsory term during basic training and is a subspecialty in its own right. Basic trainees may have experience in paediatrics, dermatology and psychiatry terms. Such experience is important to adult internal medicine practice.

Attention to the topics listed will ensure that the trainee has covered, to a substantial degree, those areas of each discipline considered as essential core knowledge for an intending physician. The relative coverage that each discipline receives is not indicative of the relative importance placed on each discipline in the training program, or in the Examination. It is strongly suggested that each trainee consults with the DPT about such matters.

In addition to the standard textbooks of adult internal medicine, the following journals are suggested as good supplementary reading, particularly with respect to recent review articles:

The American Journal of Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
British Medical Journal
The Lancet
The New England Journal of Medicine

It is understood that each trainee will not have the opportunity to become proficient in all skills during a three-year basic training program. However each trainee should endeavour to observe each procedure being performed and, if possible, to participate in it as actively as possible.

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