Medicine

Diagnosing and treating conditions, ranging from the acute severely ill young person to elderly patients with multiple complex comorbidities. 

Acute Care Common Stem (ACCS) is a three year multi-disciplinary training programme.

Acute internal medicine (AIM) remains a relatively new medical specialty having only been formally recognised in 2009.

Audiovestibular Medicine is the medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and management of hearing and balance disorders in adults and children.

Cardiology is generally stereotyped as the most high profile and practical skill based of the medical specialties. Despite this not entirely unfair image of cardiologists, the subject of cardiovascular medicine embraces a very wide range of clinical activities.

Clinical genetics is a specialty that involves the diagnosis and management of genetic disorders affecting individuals and their families.

The clinical practice of Immunology, as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) encompasses clinical and laboratory activity dealing with the study, diagnosis and management of patients with diseases resulting from disordered immunological mechanisms

Clinical neurophysiology offers an exciting and varied career within the neurosciences for those interested in combining considerable patient contact with technical skills.

Training in CPT is defined in the specialty training curriculum, and is usually combined with training as a general physician.

The Wales dermatology programme is split between north and south Wales, with candidates working either in north Wales or south Wales for four years. Candidates are not expected to rotate north to south or vice versa.

Endocrinology and diabetes is a broad ranging subject and therefore an enticing one for trainees and consultants alike, since it encompasses basic mechanisms of physiology and pharmacology, coupled with the ability to improve quality of life and long-term outcomes through effective disease control and often cure.

Gastroenterology is an exciting and expanding medical speciality, following implementation of the national bowel screening programme and due to a rising incidence in liver disease.

Genitourinary medicine involves the investigation and management of sexually transmitted infections and HIV. It is mostly outpatient based but does include inpatient care of HIV infection.

The Geriatrics training programme in Wales is split between north and south Wales.

In the UK, clinical haematology is an intensive, exciting and rewarding speciality that encompasses both clinical and laboratory practice.

The specialty of infectious diseases, although small in comparison to the system-based specialties, provides the opportunity of a career ranging from challenging and constantly varied clinical management to intellectually stimulating frontier research into diseases of worldwide importance.

The specialty of neurology is changing rapidly. Traditionally, neurology had been thought of as an intellectual pursuit, concerned with diagnosis of rare conditions of the nervous system.

The aim of the Occupational Health Department is to provide a high quality, efficient and impartial professional advisory service to improve and optimise staff and organisational health.

HEIW provides training in both Clinical Oncology (Radiotherapy) and Medical Oncology.

Specialty training in palliative medicine in Wales provides a comprehensive training experience for those wishing to pursue a career to Consultant level.

Rehabilitation medicine is the specialty that is concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation management of people with disabling medical conditions.

Renal medicine is an exciting specialty offering the challenge of looking after both acutely ill patients and those with a chronic disease requiring long term care with the help of a multidisciplinary team.

The beauty of Respiratory Medicine is its broad scope. There are many different primary pulmonary diseases, and the lung is also involved in many other systemic diseases

Rheumatology is one of the specialities within medicine and retains a very strong reliance on sound clinical skills despite considerable advance in the understanding of the molecular basis of rheumatological disease.