Additional
Requirements : Internal Medicine
Version 0.3, Etiene Saliez /
- General internist:
- Make use of most generic functionalities described above, adding the
following aspects.
- Like the GP a broad perspective on the global health of the patient,
however with a less extended range of problems, e.g. not dealing with
pregnancy, nor orthopedics, nor pediatrics, ...
- A higher level of training, dealing with more complex situations,
rare diseases, etc...
- Order many services as lab, images, consultations of super
specialists, in cardiology, in neurology, etc...
- Most internist work inside hospitals. In US they are known as
"hospitalists".
- A role of coordination, like the GP, but in most cases inside
hospitals and in case of critical and more complex situations, like
oncology.
- .....