The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), a national organization developed specifically to support and enhance the practice of hospitalists, defines the hospitalist as “a physician who specializes in the practice of hospital medicine.”
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) defines hematology as the practice of pathology concerned with the study and diagnosis of human diseases involving the hematopoietic tissues. The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) recognizes hematology as a subspecialty...
Emergency medical services (EMS) is a medical subspecialty that involves prehospital emergency patient care, including initial patient stabilization, treatment, and transport in specially equipped ambulances or helicopters to hospitals. According to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical...
According to American Board of Medical Specialties, a pediatrician who specializes in child abuse pediatrics serves as a resource to children, families, and communities by accurately diagnosing abuse. They also connect with community agencies on child safety, serve as experts in court, and treat...
Obesity medicine is a subspecialty focused on the treatment of obesity and its contributing genetic, biologic, environmental, social, and behavioral factors. The term obesity refers to a body weight that is greater than the predetermined healthy weight for a person’s height, according to the...
The authorized boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) began to offer the certification examination for sleep medicine in 2007. Since then, the ABMS has recognized sleep medicine as a medical subspecialty of family medicine, internal medicine, otolaryngology, pediatrics,...
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...
Pediatric endocrinology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that manages diseases related to hormonal regulation during infancy, childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood.
Transplant hepatology is the study of liver diseases and liver transplantation. Transplant hepatologists manage patients before and after transplantation and work in conjunction with transplant surgeons. They have specialized training in the management of patients with end-stage liver disease,...
Pediatric anesthesiology is an American Board of Medical Specialties–recognized subspecialty of anesthesiology that is concerned with providing anesthesia care for neonates, infants, children, and adolescents undergoing a wide variety of surgical, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures. The...
