Medical toxicology is a clinical subspecialty that focuses on the prevention, evaluation, treatment, and monitoring of injury and illness from exposures to drugs and chemicals, as well as biological and radiological agents. Medical toxicologists treat people for toxic...
Surgical critical care is a subspecialty of surgery that manages complex surgical and medical problems in critically ill surgical patients. The education of surgeons in the practice of surgical critical care encompasses didactic instruction in the basic and clinical sciences of surgical diseases...
Thoracic surgery is the medical specialty that involves the operative, perioperative, and critical care of patients with pathologic conditions within the chest. This includes surgical care of coronary artery disease; diseases of the trachea, lung, esophagus, and chest wall; abnormalities of the...
Neonatal-perinatal medicine is the subspecialty of pediatrics that involves the diagnosis and treatment of high-risk newborns. Neonatologists, the practitioners of neonatal-perinatal medicine, are trained to identify high-risk pregnancies and are familiar with the methods used to evaluate fetal...
Nephrology is a subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of kidney and urinary system diseases, such as chronic kidney disease, kidney inflammation, and kidney cancer. Nephrologists serve as the primary physicians for patients with chronic kidney disease and...
Physicians practicing in neurodevelopmental disabilities manage the care of children with chronic conditions that affect the developing and mature nervous system, such as intellectual disability, chronic behavioral syndromes, or neurologic conditions.
The specialty of urgent care medicine occupies the space between family and emergency medicine, providing immediate care for patients with low-acuity medical concerns, such as minor fractures and cuts, sore throats, and ear infections. Most urgent care centers are equipped to provide...
Neurological surgery, also called neurosurgery, is a medical discipline and surgical specialty that provides care for adult and pediatric patients in the treatment of pain or pathological processes that may modify the function or activity of the central nervous system (e.g., brain, hypophysis,...
Urology is the surgical specialty that focuses on diseases of the male and female urinary tract, as well as the male reproductive organs. Urologists are also referred to as genitourinary surgeons (the organs of reproduction and urination together are often referred to as the genitourinary tract...
Neurology is the diagnosis and treatment of all types of disease or impaired function of the brain; spinal cord; peripheral nerves, muscles, and autonomic nervous system; and the blood vessels that relate to these structures. Neurologists may concentrate in areas such as strokes, movement...
