9th Edition of
World Congress on Infectious Diseases
October 23-25, 2025 | Orlando, Florida, USA
Internal medicine practitioners, also known as general internal medicine specialists or general medicine physicians in Commonwealth countries, practitioners are trained to manage particularly complex or multisystem disease conditions that single-organ-disease practitioners 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 Practitioners 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", whose training is not solely concentrated on adults and may include surgery, obstetrics, and pediatrics. The American College of Physicians defines internists as "physicians who specialize in the prevention, detection, and treatment of illnesses in adults.
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Title : Key thoughts and strategies based on PBL for rapid managing of suspected gram-positive bacterial infection in ICU
Hua Luo, Peking University, China
Title : Sepsis or HLH? Solving the diagnostic puzzle in multiorgan failure
Xiaojun Shen, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, China
Title : Critical bloodstream infection caused by chromobacterium violaceum: A case report in a 15-year-old male with sepsis-induced cardiogenic shock and purpura fulminans
Xueqing Wang, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, China
Title : Effect of wechat consultation group on residents staying at home in Sichuan and Chongqing regions during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in China: A cross-sectional study
Xiaolei Hu, Shapingba Hospital, China
Title : The importance of assessing the mental health of nurses and midwives from COVID 19
Anila Cake, Tirana University of Medicine, Albania
Title : Genomic study of various virulence factors of acinetobacter baumannii isolated from clinical specimens in patients with VAP and Bloodstream infection
Anant Marathe, Parul Institute of medical sciences and Research, Parul University, India