Mental Health, General Pediatrics, and Family Medicine

Mental Health is currently one of the most important specialties in medicine. It is so important that it finds its way into every area of medicine. For any specialist to do well and continue to satisfy their patients and patients’ relatives, they must understand and apply the aspects of mental health that show up in patients in their specialties. This is why there are specialties in child psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry, and psychogeriatrics. In obstetrics and gynecology, there are mental health issues associated with pregnancy on the one hand and infertility on the other; in internal medicine, there are established mental health issues related to obesity and self-image, just as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are at the other extreme of the weight-related mental health challenges spectrum. Mental health challenges are also present in some patients presurgery or post-surgery.

General Pediatrics holds a prominent place as one of the primary specialty subjects in medical school and medical practice. An understanding of children’s health and disease is important for every physician, but particularly for pediatricians. Medical students become pediatricians (and other specialists) after graduation and residency. Ukot’s Back to Basics MCQs: Mental Health, General Pediatrics, and Family Medicine considers it expedient to include general pediatrics, no matter how few the questions are and how brief the notes accompanying the answers are. Pediatrics is so important that it has numerous sub-specialties, which include pediatric surgery, cardiology, neurology, nephrology, and psychiatry. The author of this proposed book considers it important to select globally relevant and common conditions in childhood for inclusion in this short volume – this was difficult to achieve as what to include is fewer than what to exclude.

Family Medicine is a subject (specialty) that a doctor should be well-grounded in. A physician need not be a family physician to incorporate into their practice the principles of this wide specialty. The best time to grasp its importance and applicability is in medical school. Family medicine is an essential part, irrespective of the part of the world where a doctor practices or a prospective physician will practice. Sometimes a doctor “moves” to where conditions with Family medicine slant are prevalent; at other times patients with Family medicine conditions “move” to where a physician who is a specialist in a specific specialty in medicine is – and what happens to turnaround times if such patients are not attended to just because the specialist is not equipped to handle conditions “outside” their precise specialties? Being familiar with (even if not adept in) these specialties/subjects is essential and gives the medical student and practicing physician confidence during their clinical postings and in their practice, respectively – this applies anywhere in the world. 

Mental Health is currently one of the most important specialties in medicine. It is so important that it finds its way into every area of medicine. For any specialist to do well and continue to satisfy their patients’ needs, they must understand and apply the aspects of mental health that show up in patients in their specialties. This is why there are child psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry, and geriatric psychiatry. In obstetrics and gynecology, there are mental health issues associated with pregnancy on the one hand and infertility on the other; in internal medicine, mental health issues associated with obesity and self-image are observed, just as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, which are at the other extreme of the weight-related mental health challenges. Mental health challenges are also present in some patients pre-surgery or post-surgery.

General Pediatrics holds a prominent place as one of the primary specialty subjects in medical school and medical practice. An understanding of children’s health and disease is important for every physician, but particularly for pediatricians. Medical students become pediatricians (and other specialists) after graduation and residency. Ukot’s Back to Basics MCQs: Mental Health, General Pediatrics, and Family Medicine considers it expedient to include general pediatrics, no matter how few the questions are and how brief the notes accompanying the answers are. Pediatrics is so important that it has numerous sub-specialties, which include pediatric surgery, cardiology, neurology, nephrology, and psychiatry. The author of this proposed book considers it important to select globally relevant and common conditions in childhood for inclusion in this short volume – this was difficult to achieve as what to include is fewer than what to exclude.

Family Medicine is a subject (specialty) that a doctor should be well-grounded in. A physician need not be a family physician to incorporate into their practice the principles of this wide specialty. The best time to grasp its importance and applicability is in medical school. Family medicine is an essential part irrespective of the part of the world where a doctor practices or a prospective physician will practice. Sometimes a doctor “moves” to where conditions with Family medicine slant are prevalent; at other times patients with Family medicine conditions “move” to where a physician who is a specialist in a specific specialty in medicine is – and what happens to turnaround times if such patients are not attended to just because the specialist is not equipped to handle conditions “outside” their precise specialties? Being familiar with (even if not adept in) these specialties/subjects is essential and gives the medical student and practicing physician confidence during their clinical postings and in their practice, respectively – this applies anywhere in the world.