Due to the rapid development of clinical medicine, surgeons have successfully rescued many seriously injured patients, and physicians have also rescued a large number of critically ill patients, which has increased the number of patients with chronic diseases, disabled people and elderly people, thus increasing their physiological, psychological, social and vocational rehabilitation needs and promoting the development of rehabilitation medicine;
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Medicine can be divided into modern medicine (commonly known as western medicine) and traditional medicine (including traditional Chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine, Mongolian medicine, Uygur medicine, Korean medicine, Yi medicine, Zhuang medicine, Miao medicine, Dai medicine, etc. 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.