Cardiology -- Division or Department?

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Until the beginning of the 20th century, the organization of medical schools and hospitals was simple. There were usually four clinical departments representing the traditional disciplines -- medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and pathology. As various specialties developed, with their own training programs, a number of new departments evolved from these ancestral departments. From medicine came radiology, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, and dermatology, and from surgery came anesthesiology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, and otolaryngology.As we approach the 21st century, the movement to subdivide medicine and surgery is continuing. In many institutions, divisions of neurosurgery and urology are seeking departmental status (and in . . .
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