THESIS TOPICS IN GENERAL MEDICINE MAHADEVAPPA RAMPURE MEDICAL COLLEGE

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INTRODUCTION

Internal medicine or general medicine (in Commonwealth nations) is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists, or physicians (without a modifier) in Commonwealth nations. Internists are skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes. Internists care for hospitalized and ambulatory patients and may play a major role in teaching and research.

Because internal medicine patients are often seriously ill or require complex investigations, internists do much of their work in hospitals. Internists often have subspecialty interests in diseases affecting particular organs or organ systems.

Background

The term internal medicine originates from the German term Innere Medizin, popularized in Germany in the late 19th century to describe physicians who combined the science of the laboratory with the care of patients. Many early-20th century American physicians studied medicine in Germany and brought this medical field to the United States. Thus, the name "internal medicine" was adopted in imitation of the existing German term.[4]

Much confusion surrounds the meaning of internal medicine and the role of an "internist."[5] Internists are qualified physicians with postgraduate training in internal medicine and should not be confused with "interns",[6] who are doctors in their first year of residency training (officially the term intern is no longer in use).[4][7] Although internists may act as primary care physicians, they are not "family physicians," "family practitioners," or "general practitioners," whose training is not solely concentrated on adults and may include surgery, obstetrics, and pediatrics. The American College of Physicians defines internists as "physicians who specialize in the prevention, detection and treatment of illnesses in adults".[8]

Education and training of internists

The training and career pathways for internists vary considerably across the world.
Many programs require previous undergraduate education prior to medical school admission. This "pre-medical" education is typically four or five years in length. Graduate medical education programs vary in length by country. Medical education programs are tertiary-level courses, undertaken at a medical school attached to a university. In the United States, medical school consists of four years. Hence, gaining a basic medical education may typically take eight years, depending on jurisdiction and university.

Following completion of entry-level training, newly graduated medical practitioners are often required to undertake a period of supervised practice before the licensure, or registration, is granted, typically one or two years. This period may be referred to as "internship", "conditional registration", or "foundation programme". Then, doctors may finally follow specialty training in internal medicine if they wish, typically being selected to training programs through competition. In North America, this period of postgraduate training is referred to as residency training, followed by an optional fellowship if the internist decides to train in a subspecialty. In Commonwealth countries, during that training period in internal medicine, trainees are often called senior house officers, and advance to registrar grade when they undergo a compulsory subspecialty training whilst commonly continuing service provision in the main speciality. In the United States, residency training for internal medicine lasts three years.

General Internal Medicine

General internal medicine is the medical specialty handles prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Specialists in the field are known as internists, or physicians. They deal with undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes. These also play major role in teaching and research.

Many concepts of health in human anatomy relate to care primarily in general internal medicine. Any primary conditions with symptoms recognizable are preliminary attempts to treat a patient in general internal medicine. Physical examination and general examination are important in general internal medicine. These test results are included in patient diagnosis and treatment, which are part of general internal medicine.