Involves the application of scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum 

NAME OF HEAD/AG HEAD: Dr. Amoako Duah

NAME OF HEAD NURSE: Yvonne Owusu

OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT: Internal medicine or general internal medicine (in Commonwealth nations) is the medical speciality dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of internal 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. Internal medicine and family medicine are often confused as equivalent in the Commonwealth nations.

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. Internal medicine is also a speciality within the clinical pharmacy and veterinary medicine.

Role of internal medicine physicians.

Internal medicine specialists, also known as general internal medicine specialists or general medicine physicians in Commonwealth countries, are specialist physicians trained to manage particularly complex or multisystem disease conditions that single-organ disease specialists may not be trained to deal with. They may be asked to tackle undifferentiated presentations that cannot be easily fitted within the expertise of a single-organ specialty, such as dyspnea, fatigue, weight loss, chest pain, confusion or change in a conscious state. They may manage serious acute illnesses that affect multiple organ systems at the same time in a single patient, and they may manage multiple chronic diseases or "comorbidities" that a single patient may have.

General internal medicine specialists do not provide necessarily less expertise than single-organ specialists, rather, they are trained for a specific role of caring for patients with multiple simultaneous problems or complex comorbidities.

Perhaps because it is complex to explain the treatment of diseases that are not localized to a single organ, there has been confusion about the meaning of internal medicine and the role of an "internist". Internists are qualified physicians with postgraduate training in internal medicine and should not be confused with "interns", who are doctors in their first year of residency training (officially the term intern is no longer in use). Although internists may act as primary care physicians, they are not "family physicians", "family practitioners", "general practitioners", or "GPs", whose training is not solely concentrated on adults and may include surgery, obstetrics, and paediatrics. The American College of Physicians defines internists as "physicians who specialize in the prevention, detection and treatment of illnesses in adults".

LIST OF SERVICES AVAILABLE AT THE DEPARTMENT: All medical conditions

TRAINING PROGRAMMES/EVENTS: Monthly training for staff on equipment.

APPOINTMENT PROCEDURE: Appointments should be booked online at ugmedicalcentre.org or by calling 0302550843-5