© 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine, & Faculty of Accident & Emergency Medicine
EDITORIAL
Acute medicine
Acute medicine: past, present, and future
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Correspondence to:
Dr J R Dowdle
Department of Medicine, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant, Rhondda-Cynon-Taf CF72 8XR, UK; rhid.dowdle@pr-tr.wales.nhs.uk
Developments in specialist acute care should lead to better quality of care for patients.
Keywords: acute medicine
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"Over the past few years there has been a growing realisation that there is a need for a senior medical presence in Medical Assessment and Admission units (MAUs). This has been manifest by the large number of appointments that have been made to MAUs at Consultant and other levels".1 A significant point in the development of acute medicine was marked on 3 July 2003. It was the day when the Specialist Training Authority recognised acute medicine as a sub-specialty of general (internal) medicine (G(I)M) and subsequently trainees have been appointed to specialist registrar programmes for higher training in both G(I)M and acute medicine. The development of acute medicine however has a much longer history.
There was a time when all physicians were expected to be competent in both the immediate and subsequent management of all common medical disorders, and thus were general physicians. However, fascination with the disorders
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