ABSTRACT
The term ‘medicine’ is used in this context to comprise general medicine and all the ‘medical’ specialties shown in the tables for this chapter (see Table 10.1). It therefore includes, for example, communicable diseases, genito-urinary medicine, haematology, and tropical medicine, but does not include paediatrics or occupational health. The term ‘general medicine’ is used to include all respondents who gave their career choices or jobs as ‘medicine’, ‘general medicine’, ‘academic medicine’, or medicine/general medicine with a special interest, for example in gastroenterology or diabetes. ‘Other medicine’ includes doctors who specified career choices or jobs in allergy, aviation medicine, metabolic medicine, nutrition, sports medicine, terminal care, and underwater medicine.
