Medicine
A career as a consultant in general internal medicine is varied, challenging, and rewarding. Consultants in medicine manage a wide range of acute and long-term medical conditions and symptoms. They are experts in diagnostic reasoning, dealing with uncertainty, and managing comorbidities. Consultants specialising in general internal medicine need expert knowledge of a wide range of common acute disorders and often have to manage seriously ill patients with undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes. Sub-specialisation in general medicine is in one of the following areas:
- Acute medicine
- Cardiology and the Cardiovascular system
- Clinical Immunology
- Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology and Diabetes
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Genio-urinary medicine
- Geriatric medicine
- Haematology
- Infectious Diseases
- Intensive Care
- Medical Oncology
- Neurology
- Occupational Medicine
- Palliative Medicine
- Physical Symptoms in absence of organice disease
- Psychiatry
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Renal Medicine
- Respiratory Medicine
- Rheumatology