✨ Medical Specialties Definitions
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 138 4 OCTOBER 2013
Sexual health medicine
Concerned with healthy sexual relations, including freedom from sexually transmissible infections (STIs), unplanned pregnancy, coercion, and physical or psychological sexual discomfort. Its practice encompasses a wide range of factors that contribute to STIs, sexual assault, sexual dysfunction and fertility. It also promotes sexual health of the community through education, advocacy, screening and diagnostic testing. It has a clinical perspective and a public health approach. It includes the treatment of individuals and the contact tracing and treatment of their sexual partner(s).
Fellowship of the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Physicians (FACSHP)
Sports medicine
The medical care of the exercising individual, including the assessment and management of patients with musculoskeletal injuries and medical problems arising from sporting activity. Sports physicians possess expertise in general medicine, orthopaedics and rehabilitation plus allied sport sciences including nutrition, biomechanics, exercise physiology and sports psychology.
Fellowship of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians (FACSP)
Urgent Care
The primary care of patients on an after hours or non-appointment basis where continuing medical care is not provided.
Fellowship of the Accident and Medical Practitioners Association (FAMPA)
Fellowship of the College of Urgent Care Physicians (FCUCP)
Urology
The diagnosis and treatment (operative and non-operative) of patients with disorders of the urinary tract in males and females, and male genital organs. It also includes the management of trauma to these organs and the management of male sterilisation, infertility and sexual dysfunction.
Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
Vascular surgery
The diagnosis and treatment (operative and non-operative, including endoluminal techniques and interventional procedures) of patients with disorders of blood vessels (arteries and veins outside the heart and brain) and the lymphatic system. It also includes the management of trauma and surgical access to the vascular system.
Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
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Changes to Scopes of Practice and Prescribed Qualifications for the Practice of Medicine in New Zealand
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Medical Council, Scopes of Practice, Sexual Health Medicine, Sports Medicine, Urgent Care, Urology, Vascular Surgery