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Medical specialty. A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy. Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children ( paediatrics ), cancer ( oncology ), laboratory medicine ( pathology ), or primary care ( family medicine ).
Pathologists (13 C, 6 P) Pediatricians (9 C, 7 P) Pharmacologists (8 C, 10 P) Podiatrists (3 C, 1 P) Prison physicians (4 P) Psychiatrists (11 C, 46 P) Public health doctors (3 C, 8 P) Pulmonologists (3 C, 3 P)
The American Board of Physician Specialties ( ABPS ), the official certifying body for the American Association of Physician Specialists (AAPS) is a non-profit umbrella organization for sixteen medical specialty boards that certifies and re-certifies physicians in fourteen medical specialties in the United States and Canada.
www .abms .org. The American Board of Medical Specialties ( ABMS) is a non-profit organization established in 1933 which represents 24 broad areas of specialty medicine. ABMS is the largest and most widely recognized physician-led specialty certification organization in the United States. [1] The other certification organizations in the United ...
As of 2018, there were over 985,000 practicing physicians in the United States. 90.6% have an MD degree, and 76% were educated in the United States. 64% were male. 82% were licensed in a medical specialty. 22% held active licenses in two or more states. [8] [10] The percentage of females skews younger. In 2018, 33% of female physicians were ...
General surgeon. General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on alimentary canal and abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. General surgeons also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue ...
Medical doctors by specialty (61 C) * History of medical and surgical specialties (10 C, 3 P) Interdisciplinary subfields of medicine (3 P)
Cardiology is a specialty of internal medicine. To become a cardiologist in the United States, a three-year residency in internal medicine is followed by a three-year fellowship in cardiology. It is possible to specialize further in a sub-specialty.