Replacing organizational system of internal medicine and surgery with medical departments of systemic diseases / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

The setups of internal medicine and surgery, confronted with the challenges of the development of modern clinical sciences, must be regrouped so as to conform to the demands of technological development. The set ups of internal medicine and surgery have the following drawbacks in division: ①hindering the scientific research on modern clinical medicine for lacking the theoretical basis of preclinical medicine; ②making it difficult for diseases to get treated systematically; ③affecting innovations in advanced medical technology; ④resulting in a greater number of problems of medical control; ⑤leading to an increasingly worsening situation of hospital economy. It is, therefore, necessary to regroup departments of internal medicine and surgery, set up a mode of treatment by systemic diseases, and readjust the structure of human resources and medical regimens according to this mode. Other departments, such as gynecology and obstetrics, otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, hematology, and endocrinology, can be treated as independent medical setups.