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To do that, internists perform screenings and annual physical exams to look for early signs of disease. These doctors also act as advocates for their patients, referring them to specialists when needed and remaining an active part of a multidisciplinary care team.
Part of prevention involves maintaining a healthy lifestyle, which means eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, avoiding smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, maintaining a healthy weight and taking steps to reduce stress. So internal medicine doctors spend time with their patients counseling them on lifestyle improvements they can make to help prevent disease. Another part of prevention involves finding disease early while it’s easier to treat effectively. To do that, internists perform screenings and annual physical exams to look for early signs of disease.
Internal medicine is a medical specialty that focuses on diagnosing, treating and preventing disease in adults. All internal medicine doctors complete a residency, which is an additional three years of training after medical school. They are considered primary care doctors, so they are trained to treat diseases in all body systems.
Bone scans to look for osteoporosis. The physical exam doctors perform every year at annual physicals involves doing a physical or visual exam of most parts of the body, like the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, throat, abdomen, legs, fingernails and skin.
While internal medicine doctors are trained to diagnose and treat most diseases and conditions that affect adults, they do refer patients to specialists when they believe it’s in the patient’s best interest to see a doctor who spends all day, every day diagnosing and treating a specific condition .
If a doctor chooses more than one sub-specialty, it will take longer. While most doctors who complete a fellowship to sub-specialize go on to practice medicine exclusively in their sub-specialty, they are considered internists even if they are referred to as their sub-specialty name (such as cardiologist or psychiatrist).
All internal medicine doctors are primary care doctors, but not all primary care doctors are internal medicine doctors. Primary care doctors may also be family medicine doctors, pediatricians, or doctors of osteopathy. Learn more about what makes them different.