Fellowship (medicine)A fellowship is the period of medical training, in the United States and Canada, that a physician, dentist, or veterinarian may undertake after completing a specialty training program (residency). During this time (usually more than one year), the physician is known as a fellow. Fellows are capable of acting as an attending physician or a consultant physician in the specialist field in which they were trained, such as internal medicine or pediatrics.
Médecine généraleLa médecine générale, ou médecine familiale, est une spécialité médicale prenant en charge le suivi durable, le bien-être et les soins de santé généraux primaires d'une communauté, sans se limiter à des groupes de maladies relevant d'un organe, d'un âge, ou d'un sexe particulier. Le médecin généraliste, aussi appelé médecin omnipraticien ou médecin de famille, est donc souvent consulté pour diagnostiquer les symptômes avant de traiter la maladie ou de référer le patient à un autre médecin spécialiste.
Doctor of Osteopathic MedicineDoctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O., or in Australia DO USA) is a medical degree conferred by the 38 osteopathic medical schools in the United States. DO and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees are equivalent: a DO graduate may become licensed as a physician or surgeon and thus have full medical and surgical practicing rights in all 50 US states. , there were 168,701 osteopathic physicians and medical students in DO programs across the United States. Osteopathic medicine emerged historically from osteopathy, but has become a distinct profession.
General practitionerIn the medical profession, a general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a physician who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients of all ages. GPs' duties are not confined to specific fields of medicine, and they have particular skills in treating people with multiple health issues. They are trained to treat patients to levels of complexity that vary between countries. The term "primary care physician" is more usually used in the US.
Médecine interneLa médecine interne est une spécialité médicale. Elle s'intéresse au diagnostic et à la prise en charge globale des maladies de l'adulte avec une prédilection pour les maladies systémiques (par exemple le lupus érythémateux disséminé) et les maladies auto-immunes en général. Un médecin qui pratique la médecine interne est un interniste. En France, la médecine interne est la spécialité des démarches diagnostiques difficiles et de la prise en charge des adultes souffrant de polypathologies ou de maladies générales.
