Medicine Department

DEFINITION. For the purposes of this paper, I define a department of medicine as an organizational unit that incorporates the disciplines of internal medicine, which are the specialties and subspecialties that are certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM); this paper focuses on such departments.

To this end, the major areas of responsibility for the medical department are to: Act as the medical conscience of the company; ... Provide the medical input to the servicing and support of marketed products throughout their life cycle; Provide general as well as specialized medical expertise, as required.