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