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