Internal medicine overview

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Internal medicine is the core area of medicine: It deals with the structure, function and diseases of all organ systems in the body. In a sense, it forms the link between all medical disciplines.

Within this huge field of work, an internist (specialist in internal medicine) can specialize in one of the following areas:

Vascular systems (angiology)
Metabolism and hormones (endocrinology / diabetology)
Digestive organs (gastroenterology / hepatology)
Blood and hematopoietic organs, tumors (hematology / oncology)
Heart and circulation (cardiology)
Kidney and urinary tract (nephrology)
Respiratory organs (pulmonology or pulmonology)
Skeleton and connective tissue (rheumatology)

In addition, an internist can acquire various additional qualifications, for example in the fields of addiction medicine, infectious diseases and tropical medicine.

Note: Hepatologists are also internists, more precisely gastroenterologists who specialize in diseases of the liver.

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