Medicine
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Medicine is the discipline that studies the structure and function of the human body and researches methods and techniques for human health and for the treatment and prevention of disease and injury. It can be divided into basic medicine, clinical medicine, social medicine, and so on.
Modern medicine spans many fields: not only "clinical medicine" such as medication and surgery, but also "basic medicine" such as anatomy and pathology, and "social medicine", which is concerned with health problems caused by social factors.
Basic research fields
- Parasitology
- Immunology
- Microbiology
- Pathology
- Physiology
- Biochemistry
- Pharmacology
- Preventive medicine
- Medical informatics
- History of medicine
- Anatomy
- Forensic medicine
Specialties
Internal medicine group
Departments that treat diseases mainly with medication rather than surgery
- Internal medicine
- Pediatrics and adolescent medicine
- Psychiatry
- Dermatology
- Neurology
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Family medicine
- Rheumatology
Surgical group
Departments whose main treatment is surgery, along with departments that split off from surgery, are classified as surgical even if they now rely more on medication.
- Ophthalmology
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Urology
- Neurosurgery
- Orthopedic surgery
- Plastic surgery
- General surgery
- Obstetrics and gynecology
- Thoracic surgery
Clinical support departments
- Radiology - things like Xray and CT
- Nuclear medicine
- Anesthesiology and pain medicine
- Radiation oncology
- Laboratory medicine
- Pathology (studies histopathology and pathology)
Multidisciplinary departments
- Emergency medicine
- Industrial medicine has been renamed occupational and environmental medicine.
- Preventive medicine
See also
- Korean: 건강 (Health)
- Medical genetics
- Health care
- Physician
- Korean medicine doctor
- Medical scientist
- Medical terminology
- Alternative medicine
- Functional medicine
- Naturopathy
- The Lancet - a well-known medical science journal