Internal Medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases affecting the internal organs of the body in adults.
Specialists in this field are called specialist general physicians. They are doctors who have trained in various specialties such as diseases of the heart, lungs, brain and other organs. Often people have more than one part of the body involved in an illness or the exact cause of symptoms is not clear. The General Physician is an expert in diagnosing what is wrong and managing illnesses that are complex.
The Medical team is made up of Specialists in Medicine, Hospital Medical Officers (senior doctors who work across all teams especially when working in the Emergency Care Department), Registrars, who are fully qualified doctors undertaking further training in medicine and House Officers who are recently qualified doctors working in the team under supervision of the senior members.
Dr Cheryl Johnson has been employed in the Auckland region since 2003 and knows the Auckland hospitals well. She is currently a Geriatric Medicine advanced trainee.....
Across our Auckland hospitals, you can gain experience in:
The training programme in Auckland is overseen by the Medical Vocational Training Committee, which is made up of the three directors of physician training and representatives of the medicine divisions for each of the Auckland, Waitemata and Counties Manukau DHBs respectively, in addition to members of ARRMOS and a trainee representative.
The training programme in Auckland is organised by the Medical Vocational Training Committee with representation from all hospitals across Auckland and the Department of Medicine University of Auckland. This Committee is committed to further improve the quality of teaching in Medicine in Auckland.