Department Capacity:
Department of Internal Medicine has more than 264 employees under its administration, including 63 Consultants. Scholarship positions in different Internal Medicine subspecialties have been cleverly planned and approved to strengthen expected expanding services in the future.
In 2020, the total patient admissions for all subspecialties in the Department of Internal Medicine had reached 4,130. The total of outpatient visits to all subspecialties reached 61,805. The medical subspecialties have received a total of 5,250 referrals and 4,125 consultations.
The Department of Internal Medicine mainly provides services both Outpatient and Inpatient Services with Clinical Programs been established per subspecialty as follows:
Respirology Section:
- Sleep Medicine Disorder Services
- Bronchoscopy with Interventional Pulmonary Service
- Pulmonary Function Lab Test Services
- Rapid access to primary healthcare (PHC) to refer patients timely to services like COPD, severe asthma, interstitial lung disease, and pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary rehab services are to be launched soon.
- Day Case services for biological therapy for severe asthma.
General Internal Medicine Section:
- Acute Medicine Unit Service
- Chronic Care Service
- Perioperative Outpatient Clinic Service
- GIM Rapid Access clinic services
- Heart failure / respiratory inpatient unit service
- Geriatric service
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation service
- Allergy and Immunology service
Endocrinology Section:
- Insulin Pump Program
- Neuroendocrine Clinic
- Thyroid Cancer Program
- Radioactive Iodine Therapy
- Neuroendocrine clinic
- Osteoporosis Clinic
Dermatology Section:
- Microscopy Examination service
- Potassium Hydroxide –KOH Preparation service
- Cryotherapy service
- Electrosurgery service
- Wood's Light examination service
- Skin Biopsy service
- Chemical cautery service
- Intralesional injection service
- Lasers / All types of service
- Excision of curettage service
- Intralesional injection service
- Chemical Peeling service
- Phototherapy service
- Chemical cautery service
- Tzanck Smear service
Neurology Section:
- EEG, NCS & EMG Service
- Autonomic Lab (the only lab in the middle east for Acute Stroke Service)
- Epilepsy Service
- Acute Stroke Service 24/7 with thrombolysis, mechanical thrombectomy, and automated perfusion imaging
- Multiple Sclerosis Clinic
- Movement Disorder Clinic
- Stroke Clinic
Gastroenterology Section:
- Diagnostic and therapeutic luminal GI endoscopy
- Diagnostic and therapeutic pancreaticobiliary endoscopy
- Endoscopic ultrasound
- Endoscopic therapy of complications of Bariatrics surgery
- Liver transplant care
- Liver cancer care
- Fibroscan
Nephrology Section:
- Hemodialysis service
- Peritoneal dialysis service
- Kidney transplant service
Infectious Diseases Section:
- HIV Clinic service (inpatient and outpatient)
- HIV Oncology consultation service (inpatient and outpatient)
- HIV General Surgery consultation service (inpatient and outpatient)
- HIV Cardiac Center consultation service (inpatient and outpatient)
- Outpatient intravenous antibiotic therapy service
- Daily Hospital stewardship program service
Psychiatry Section:
- Psycho pharmacology service
- Psychotherapy service
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) service
- Family therapy service
- Psychometric test service
- Child and Adolescent psychiatry service
- Perinatal woman health