Internal Medicine as a Specialty

Occupational medicine as a specialty.

Occupational medicine is one of the more recently accepted specialties and is best defined by the social context in which it is practiced. The current structure of the specialty is more easily understood in the light of its historical background. Occupational medicine brings together knowledge from a wide spectrum of disciplines which is reflected in its academic and research bases. A great var...

A perspective on developing emergency medicine as a specialty

AIMS A rapidly increasing number of countries are developing their capacities to respond to acute illness and injury and organizing emergency medicine training programs. This article offers some insight into the way emergency medicine has undergone development in the Australasian region. METHODS The perspective is built from experience in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. CONCLUS...

A Brief Overview of the Specialty of Travel Medicine

1st college of physicians lecture: the role of internal medicine as a specialty in the era of subspecialisation.

This paper is divided into 4 parts. The first deals with the definition of specialties and traces its roots from the early 20th century in the United States of America with the formation and growth of Specialty Boards. The second is a reflection on the scene in Singapore from the 1960s to the present, describing the change from public healthcare institutions run by the civil service to the auto...

Emergency medicine-the specialty.

The perception of emergency medicine as a defined specialty may vary widely in different locations around the world. While no single emergency medical system can fulfil the needs of all countries, there are three main models of delivery: the European model, the Anglo-American model, and the neglect model. This article reviews aspects of emergency medical systems around the world and compares th...