2024-02-08 07:32:03
The Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) has launched the “Always at the forefront” campaign, with which it aims to promote the first anniversary of this specialty which is celebrated today, February 8.
Poster commemorating Internal Medicine Day, February 8.
This is an anniversary that this specialty will organize every February 8 from this year onwards, a date that coincides with the founding of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine in 1952 and which this year, 2024, has as its motto ‘Always to the Vanguard’.
To launch the first Internal Medicine Day, different actions have been launched aimed at the Internal Medicine Services of the hospitals of the National Health System, specialists and the citizens themselves.
In addition, SEMI has also proposed a social media campaign to encourage Internal Medicine specialists to show their pride in being internists. You can share photos with the hashtags #InternistPride y #InternalMedicineDay2024.
The objective of this commemoration is to promote the knowledge about the specialtyto make visible the work of the internist in its multiple facets and areas, as a transversal specialist with a comprehensive vision, and to generally increase knowledge of its important function within the SNS among citizens.
The main purpose of this year’s campaign is to publicize this day, its establishment and celebration, and make its commemoration visible.
What is internal medicine and what does it consist of?
Internal Medicine is a scientific discipline that creates and promotes medical knowledge, methods and clinical skills, but at the same time also analyzes and manages the findings of other medical specialties.
Furthermore, Internal Medicine has occupied a central position in the evolution of the different medical specialties, which have been developing, and becoming independent, at the pace of innovations.
In this sense, internal medicine is a specialty that represents a comprehensive care of patients because it specializes in evaluation, diagnosis and management of general medical problems, atypical presentations, multiple problems, complex complications and systemic diseases and, in addition, has ability to treat patients with medical emergencies not yet selected.
Work in the specialty of Internal Medicine
According to the latest available data, during 2022, the number of hospital discharges managed by Internal Medicine was 1,265,239 of the total of 4,771,265 in the entire National Health System, which shows the importance of this medical specialty.
“The care that internists provide is good and safe for patients,” defends Dr. Juana Carretero, president of the SEMI
Furthermore, the expert defends that being an internist, It means always being at the forefront and this allows you to train in many areas of interest and knowledge such as heart failure, new care models, taking patient care to the patient’s home, caring for other patients who are not treated on other floors. Internists are the hospital doctors. We are like the central services of the hospital.
On the other hand, she adds: “I am absolutely convinced that we can have a better profession. Caring for patients from internal medicine means caring for them in a comprehensive way, or in a compartmentalized way into organs, devices, systems.”
Members of the current Permanent Commission of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI). From left to right: Dr. Montserrat Chimeno (1st vice president), Dr. Manuel Méndez (general secretary), Dr. Juana Carretero (president of the SEMI), Dr. Mayte Herranz (advisor to the president), Dr. José Manuel Porcel (2nd vice president) and Dr. Pablo Pérez (treasurer of the SEMI)/Courted photo
A specialty with a future
Dr. Monserrat Chimeno, first vice president of the SEMI, defends that at the present time internal medicine is a fundamental specialty in the health system.
“We not only care for hospitalized patients, but thanks to our plasticity we have known how to adapt to new times and lead alternatives to conventional hospitalization,” he points out.
Furthermore, the vice president adds: “We have trained ourselves in the management of new techniques and new diagnostic technologies and we are prepared to take on new possible pandemics and to lead what is now called the epidemic of chronicity.”
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