✨ Medical Specialties and Qualifications
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 141 — 21 NOVEMBER 2014
Rural hospital medicine
Determined by its social context, the rural environment, the demands of which include professional and geographic isolation, limited resources, and special cultural and sociological factors. It is invariably practised at a distance from comprehensive specialist medical and surgical services and investigations. A broad generalist set of skills, knowledge and attitudes are needed to deliver optimum patient outcomes in rural hospitals. Unlike rural general practice, rural hospital medicine is orientated to secondary care, is responsive rather than anticipatory and does not continue over time.
Fellowship of the Division of Rural Hospital Medicine New Zealand (FDRHMNZ RNZCGP)
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 RACP)
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)
Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care (FRNZCUC)
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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Medical Council, Scopes of Practice, Qualifications, Medical Practitioners, Rural Hospital Medicine, Sexual Health Medicine, Sports Medicine, Urgent Care, Urology, Vascular Surgery