Introduction to internal Medicine

Sir William Osler

Hippocrates

By: Dr. Daniel Garang Aluk Dinyo (MD)

At Aweil Science Institute Aweil South Sudan 2018
What is internal medicine???
Etymology of internal medicine

Internal medicine is from Germany term ”Innere

Medizin” from the 19th century.
Thomas Sydenham (father of English Medicine) or
“the English Hippocrates", had developed nosology
 What is internal medicine???

It is medical specialty dealing with prevention,

diagnosis and treatment of diseases in adult.
Introduction to internal medicine…

A doctor specialized in internal medicine is called?

 What does internist do???

Prevent, diagnose and manage

• Acute multiple organ system illnesses
• Chronic disease and their complications
• Comorbidities
 IM Subspecialties According to
American Board of Internal Medicine

• Hospital medicine
• Adolescent medicine
• Infectious disease
• Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
• Interventional cardiology
• Cardiology
• Medical oncology
• Clinical cardiac electrophysiology
• Nephrology
• Critical care medicine
• Pulmonology
• Endocrinology
• Rheumatology
• Gastroenterology
• Sleep medicine
• Geriatric medicine
• Sports medicine
• Hematology
• Hepatology
Answer the following questions

• Define internal medicine

• During which century did IM come into use?
• From which language was IM derived?
• How do we call doctors who specialized in IM?
• Name at least 4 subspecialties of internal medicine?
• Who was known as a father of English medicine?
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