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What is a Medicine-Pediatrics specialist?
Choosing a Med-Peds specialist provides the best of both worlds
— Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Med-Peds physicians
are trained in both Internal Medicine (Adult Medicine) and also in
the care of children and infants (Pediatrics). Through this combined
training, a Med-Peds physician is capable of performing all the
duties of the individual specialists.
How are Med-Peds specialists trained? Physicians who choose to become Med-Peds specialists typically
wish to receive the rigorous and often in-hospital training of
the individual specialties while also maintaining the ability
to care for people of all ages. Training includes general internal
medicine and pediatrics (outpatient and inpatient); normal newborn
care; neonatal, pediatric and adult intensive care; emergency
care; behavioral pediatrics; adolescent medicine; geriatrics;
women's and men's health.
Subspecialty experience includes allergy/immunology, cardiology, endocrinology/metabolism, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, immunology, infectious disease, nephrology, neurology, pulmonology, rheumatology, and sports medicine.
Like other specialists, Med-Peds physicians complete additional training after medical school during their internship and residencies. During the four years of residency and internship Med-Peds physicians meet the training requirements of both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics. All five physicians at Cool Springs Internal Medicine and Pediatrics are board certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics through the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP).
How do Meds-Peds specialists practice?
Such dual specialty training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
makes them uniquely qualified to care for every member of the
family — from newborn to geriatric, with an emphasis on
the treatment of a wide scope of complicated disease processes.
In addition, Med-Peds specialists are highly trained in preventive
medicine and health. They have the ability to care for families
in multiple inpatient and outpatient settings. There is no better
way to appreciate the impact of illness on a family than to take
care of the whole family.
Coupled with this special continuity are the tremendous rewards of durable relationships as the health mentor for families over several decades. Med-Peds physicians draw from the rich repertoire of knowledge and skills of pediatricians and internists to bring great flexibility in their approach to clinical medicine. Increasingly they occupy special niches within the medical community, such as the care of adults with transitional illnesses including cystic fibrosis, diabetes, congenital heart disease, etc.
Internal Medicine-Pediatrics trained physicians embody the skills, knowledge, and dedication of pediatricians and internists in a single physician. Capitalizing on the focus, depth, and evidence base of training in and practicing the two disciplines, Med-Peds physicians bring a unique insight and scope to the care of patients throughout their life span. Caring for multiple generations of the same family lends them intrinsic comprehension of family dynamics and the impact of acute or chronic illness at all ages — all in the context of family systems.
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