Mayo Clinic's General Internal Medicine professionals focus on:
- Assessing people with multiple medical or health concerns. This includes those with complex or unexplained symptoms — such as shortness of breath, kidney issues and high blood pressure — who need help in diagnosing their illness.
- Collaboration, which means you may be referred to a surgeon or other doctors on Mayo Clinic's multispecialty team of experts. Your general internal medicine doctor then creates an individualized treatment plan that complements the care you receive from your local primary care provider.
- Healthy lifestyle, early disease detection and disease prevention strategies, such as mammograms, Pap smears, cholesterol screening and blood pressure screening.
A general internal medicine appointment varies at each of Mayo Clinic's campuses — located in Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Rochester, Minnesota. Typically it includes a general physical examination and laboratory or imaging tests. Your general internal medicine team provides seamless referral to other Mayo Clinic specialists and services as needed. This care model ensures that you get exactly the care you need. Everything is well coordinated, and nearly all services are provided under one roof, in one location.
Your care is provided in a clinical environment supported by education and research that yields new medical advances and treatments.
Mayo Clinic's Division of General Internal Medicine is one of the largest academic general internal medicine divisions in the world. The areas of expertise and services of Mayo Clinic's General Internal Medicine groups in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota are summarized below.
Arizona
At Mayo Clinic's campus in Scottsdale, Arizona, you may be cared for by general internal medicine doctors, nurses and advanced practice professionals in the following areas:
- Consultative medicine, which focuses on helping adults with complex or multiple unexplained symptoms who need help in diagnosing their illness.
- Executive Health Program, which offers preventive care through a focused, efficient, individualized experience to help people gain more healthy years doing what they love in their personal and professional lives.
- Integrative Medicine and Health, which helps people with cancer, persistent pain, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and many other conditions better manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life with an integrated health and wellness approach.
- International medicine, which serves people who come from outside of the United States seeking medical care at Mayo Clinic.
- Palliative medicine, which focuses on providing people relief from pain and other symptoms of serious illness.
- Vascular testing for preventive health.
- Travel medicine.
Florida
At Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville, Florida, you may be cared for by general internal medicine doctors, nurses and advanced practice professionals in the following areas:
- Consultative and diagnostic medicine, which offers both the understanding and managing of aspects of the general health care of adults. You'll also be offered preventive care and disease prevention strategies to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle. And referrals to specialists will be made based on your medical needs.
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Clinic, which is tailored specifically to the needs of people living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
- Executive Health Program, which offers preventive care through a focused, efficient, individualized experience to help people gain more healthy years doing what they love in their personal and professional lives.
- Integrative Medicine and Health, which offers services for your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental health and well-being by integrating the science of lifestyle and complementary modalities with the latest advances in conventional medicine.
- International medicine, in which doctors experienced in the special needs of international patients provide seamless, coordinated and comprehensive consultative care.
- Fibromyalgia Clinic, which is a two-day session available by doctor referral for people living with fibromyalgia.
- Women's Health Specialty Center, where women's health experts provide a range of services, including consultations for menopause and sexual health.
Minnesota
At Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota, you may be cared for by general internal medicine doctors, nurses and advanced practice professionals in the following areas:
- Breast Clinic, which helps people at high risk of breast cancer, people who have a new diagnosis of breast cancer or a history of breast cancer with new needs, breast cancer survivors, and people with conditions that affect breast skin (Breast Dermatology Clinic).
- Consultative Medicine Clinic, which provides medical consultation on current symptoms and illness. Your visit begins with an initial consultation with an internal medicine doctor who recommends additional testing and consultations. The consultative medicine team facilitates these appointments on your behalf. At the end of the visit, you'll see the doctor for a wrap-up visit to develop a plan of care and answer any questions. You'll receive a summary document, which you may share with your local health care provider. This team specializes in complex medical care and undiagnosed symptoms.
- General Internal Medicine Consult Service, which provides complex inpatient consultative medical care to patients of inpatient surgical teams and medical specialty teams at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. This team collaborates closely with patients and with other Mayo Clinic care teams to optimize the safety, efficiency and quality of care of people who have major surgery and other specialized inpatient care at Mayo Clinic. This team also maintains leading roles in perioperative medicine and in other consultative care.
- Executive Health Program, which offers preventive care through a focused, efficient, individualized experience to help people gain more healthy years doing what they love in their personal and professional lives.
- Home parenteral nutrition (HPN), in which a specialized, multidisciplinary team works to provide nutritional care for people that require home enteral nutrition or parenteral nutrition. Your HPN team includes doctors, advanced practice providers, pharmacists, nurses and dietitians. Since the program was developed around 1980, the HPN program has treated more than 1,700 people. The HPN team works closely with other specialty groups within Mayo Clinic, including surgery, gastroenterology and medical oncology.
- Integrative Medicine and Health, which has expertise in an area often referred to as complementary and alternative medicine. This team helps people manage symptoms for many conditions, including fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and post-COVID-19 syndrome, with an integrated health and wellness approach. Services include stress management and resiliency, nutrition, weight, acupuncture, massage therapy, wellness coaching, and herbal and supplement consultations.
- International Medicine Clinic, in which doctors experienced in the special needs of international patients provide seamless, coordinated and comprehensive consultative care.
- Menopause and Women's Sexual Health Clinic, which offers a confidential, compassionate approach and individualized care plans.
Learn more about what to expect when you visit Mayo Clinic and get tips on preparing for your visit so that you get the most benefit. After you return home, it's important that you have a local primary care doctor to oversee your continuing care and any needed prescription refills. With your permission, the Division of General Internal Medicine shares with your local primary care doctor a summary of exam results and care you received while at Mayo Clinic. The clinic also offers Patient Online Services, including, if you wish, a way for your local doctor to access your health information.
Mayo Clinic Health System
Mayo Clinic has one of the largest and most experienced practices in the United States, with campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota. Staff skilled in dozens of specialties work together to ensure quality care and successful recovery.
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General internal medicine doctors at Mayo Clinic are organized into specialty teams to enhance collaboration, research and patient care:
Mayo Clinic regularly performs clinical studies across a variety of general health care topics and across multiple states including Minnesota, Florida and Arizona.
Mayo Clinic Division of General Internal Medicine clinician-scientists and researchers study many aspects of medical care, including those in the areas of quality, integrative medicine and health, menopause and women's sexual health, and consultative practice. Our scientists are committed to contributing to the science and are highly involved with publishing and professional societies.
Their goal is to improve how care is delivered and to build on a foundation of scientific evidence that supports the team-based model of care.
See a list of publications about general internal medicine by Mayo Clinic doctors on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
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Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people.
In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.
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