Core Adult Internal Medicine Disciplines

General Medicine

Basic training in general medicine terms will necessarily bring exposure to organ specific disease but has the additional advantage of allowing trainees to work in situations in which illness is multifactorial and multidisciplinary.

The ability to synthesize and prioritize where problems are complex and perhaps undifferentiated is crucial to physician training, examination success and competent practice. Requirements include the capacity to obtain and record a comprehensive, thorough and relevant medical history and the development of high level of skills in all facets of clinical examination.

Training within general medical units allows both breadth and depth of experience and provides unique opportunities for integration of skills. It is important that trainees develop high levels of skill in information acquisition and retrieval related to current clinical processes.

Such training will require the application of knowledge of pathophysiology, risk assessment, disease prevention, investigation and management dealt with in organ-specific disciplines and described in other subspecialty requirements.

There is a particular emphasis on the critical appraisal of the interactions of diseases involving multiple organ systems and in the creation of multidisciplinary diagnostic and management strategies.

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