The department of internal medicine provides cross-specialty care for patients with a wide spectrum of clinical conditions.Consultants in the department have had broad-based training in general internal medicine and in one or more subspecialties. The presence of clinicians with different subspecialty training in the department allows for an integrated approach to patient care.
Subspecialties of internal medicine include allergy and immunology, cardiology (heart diseases), endocrinology (hormone disorders), haematology (blood disorders), infectious diseases, gastroenterology (diseases of the gut), nephrology (kidney diseases), oncology (cancer), pulmonology (lung disorders), and rheumatology (arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders).