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...
Vascular surgery is the medical specialty that involves the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the arterial, venous, and lymphatic circulatory systems, excluding the heart and intracranial vessels.
Core privileges are those procedures or privileges that any well-trained practitioner...
Physicians in neuromusculoskeletal medicine/osteopathic manipulative medicine treat newborn, pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients to address the somatic components, both anatomic and physiologic, of any common and complex illness, affliction, disease, or functional...
Emergency medicine is the medical specialty concerned with evaluating, managing, treating, and preventing unexpected illness and injury. Emergency medicine practitioners provide clinical and administrative services to the healthcare delivery system, including care for individuals who lack other...
Medical genetics is the medical specialty that involves the interaction between genes and health. Medical geneticists are physicians trained to evaluate, diagnose, manage, treat, and counsel individuals of all ages with hereditary disorders. This specialist uses...
Pediatric cardiology is a subspecialty of pediatrics focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of heart problems in infants, children, and young adults. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), pediatric cardiologists are physicians who have completed training in pediatrics with...
Pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons provide preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative surgical care to patients under the age of 18 with structural abnormalities involving the heart and major blood vessels. Includes correction or treatment of various conditions of the heart and related blood...
Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also referred to as physiatry or rehabilitation medicine, is the medical specialty concerned with evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients with physical disabilities. These disabilities may arise from conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system,...
