Complexity of Infectious Diseases Compared With Other Medical Subspecialties

We aimed to highlight the complexity of the field of clinical infectious diseases compared with other medical specialties. Using available metrics, the body of knowledge within clinical infectious diseases is comparatively large and complex. This increasing complexity is underappreciated by current...

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Autores principales: Grundy, Brian, Houpt, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10533204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37771851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad463
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spelling pubmed-105332042023-09-28 Complexity of Infectious Diseases Compared With Other Medical Subspecialties Grundy, Brian Houpt, Eric Open Forum Infect Dis Perspectives We aimed to highlight the complexity of the field of clinical infectious diseases compared with other medical specialties. Using available metrics, the body of knowledge within clinical infectious diseases is comparatively large and complex. This increasing complexity is underappreciated by current physician compensation schemes, needs to be carefully managed to educate future physicians, and may serve as a barrier to recruitment into the field. Oxford University Press 2023-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10533204/ /pubmed/37771851 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad463 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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