Internal Medicine
The branch and specialty of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of illnesses in adults, especially those of the internal organs, is called internal medicine.
Doctors of internal medicine, also known as "internists," must have spent at least three years of medical training and postgraduate training learning how to prevent, diagnose, and treat illnesses in adults.
Sub-Specialities under Internal Medicine:
- Cardiology: deals with disorders of the heart and blood vessels
- Endocrinology: deals with disorders of the endocrine system and its specific secretions called hormones
- Gastroenterology: deals with the field of digestive diseases
- Hematology: deals with blood, the blood-forming organs and its disorders
- Infectious disease: deals with disease caused by a biological agent such as by a virus, bacterium or parasite
- Medical oncology: deals with the study and treatment of cancer
- Nephrology: deals with the function and diseases of the kidney
- Pulmonology: deals with diseases of the lungs and the respiratory tract
- Rheumatology: deals with the medical diagnosis and therapy of rheumatic diseases.
