Medicine can be divided into modern medicine (commonly known as western medicine) and traditional medicine [including Chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine, Mongolian medicine, Uygur medicine, Korean medicine, Yi medicine, Zhuang medicine, Miao medicine and Dai medicine]. Different regions and nationalities have corresponding medical systems and different aims and purposes. India's traditional medical system is also considered to be very developed.
Research fields include basic medicine, clinical medicine, forensic medicine, laboratory medicine, preventive medicine, health care medicine and rehabilitation medicine.
Basic medicine includes: medical biomathematics, medical biochemistry, medical biophysics, human anatomy, medical cell biology, human physiology, human histology, human embryology, medical genetics, human immunology, medical parasitology, medical microbiology, medical virology, human pathology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical experimental animal science, medical psychology, biomedical engineering, medical informatics, first aid and nursing.
Clinical medicine includes: clinical diagnosis, laboratory diagnosis, imaging diagnosis+radiation diagnosis+ultrasonic diagnosis+nuclear medicine diagnosis *, clinical therapeutics, occupational therapeutics, chemotherapy, biotherapy, hematology, tissue and organ therapeutics, dietotherapy, physiotherapy, speech therapeutics, psychotherapy, internal medicine, surgery, urology, obstetrics and gynecology. Stomatology, epidemiology, dermatology, neurology, psychiatry, oncology, emergency medicine, anesthesia nursing, family medicine, sex medicine, hospice care, rehabilitation medicine, health care medicine, audiology.