Is anesthesia clinical in medicine? Or what?

Anesthesiology is two disciplines and belongs to clinical medicine.

Clinical medicine is a first-class discipline. In the subject classification catalogue of the Ministry of Education, the only first-class subjects juxtaposed with clinical medicine are: basic medicine, stomatology, public health and preventive medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, pharmacy and traditional Chinese medicine.

Anesthesiology, as two disciplines, should belong to clinical medicine alongside internal medicine and surgery.

As follows: the four-digit code is a first-class discipline, and the six-digit code is two disciplines.

1002 clinical medicine

10020 1 internal medicine (including cardiovascular diseases, hematological diseases, respiratory diseases, digestive diseases, endocrine and metabolic diseases, nephropathy, rheumatism and infectious diseases)

100202 Pediatrics

100203 Geriatrics

100204 neurology

100205 psychiatry and mental health

100206 dermatology

100207 imaging medicine and nuclear medicine

100208 clinical laboratory diagnosis

100209 nursing

1002 10 surgery (including: general surgery, extraosseous surgery, urology, thoracic surgery, cardiac surgery, plastic surgery, burn surgery).

1002 1 1 obstetrics and gynecology

1002 12 ophthalmology

1002 13 Otolaryngology Department