The subspecialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery encompasses the diagnosis and surgical and adjunctive treatment of diseases, injuries, and defects affecting the function and esthetics of the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons care for...
Admit, evaluate, diagnose, treat, perform history and physical, and provide consultation to patients of all ages with diseases, injuries, and disorders of the digestive organs, including the stomach, bowels, liver, gallbladder, and related structures such as the...
Ophthalmology is the branch of medicine that specializes in the anatomy, function, and diseases of the eye. An ophthalmologist is a medical or osteopathic doctor who specializes in eye and vision care. Ophthalmologists are specially trained to provide the full spectrum of eye care—from...
Occupational and environmental medicine is a clinical and population-based medical specialty devoted to the prevention and management of occupational and environmental injury, illness, and disability, as well as the promotion of the health and productivity of workers, their families, and their...
Obstetrics and gynecology (OB-GYN) is the medical specialty that involves the treatment of clinical conditions that are specific to women. Obstetricians diagnose and manage all conditions occurring during pregnancy, from the time of conception through the postpartum period. Gynecologists provide...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
