Internal medicine

Physicians on the general ward take the medical history, examine patients, make diagnoses and set treatment plans. They conduct informed consent discussions, document findings, are responsible for drug therapy with attention to medication safety and hand over patients in a structured way. For further diagnostics they interpret laboratory and imaging findings and use point-of-care testing. In daily ward work they write discharge letters, code diagnoses and procedures and contribute to discharge management. They care for the seriously ill and dying, talk with relatives and act in medical emergencies.