Critical care specialists—also called intensivists—are qualified to diagnose and manage the care of critical care or intensive care unit patients who have acute, life-threatening illnesses or injuries (e.g., heart attack, poisoning, pneumonia, surgical complications, premature birth, or stroke...
Pediatric radiologists perform and interpret diagnostic radiology (i.e., X-ray, radionuclides, ultrasound, and electromagnetic radiation) for newborns, infants, children, and adolescents. Responsible for communicating critical values and critical findings consistent with medical staff policy...
Pediatric rehabilitation medicine is a subspecialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation that emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to evaluating infants, children, and adolescents with temporary or permanent disabilities. Pediatric rehabilitation medicine physicians (also known as...
Dermatologists are physicians who specialize in evaluating and managing adults and children with benign and malignant conditions and disorders of the skin, hair, nails, and adjacent mucous membranes,
Core privileges are those procedures or privileges that any well-trained practitioner...
Pediatric rheumatologists treat patients under the age of 21 with proven or suspected acute and chronic rheumatic diseases or disorders of the joints, muscles, bones, and tendons, including but not limited to management of arthritis, back pain, muscle strains, common athletic injuries, and...
Developmental-behavioral pediatricians evaluate, counsel, and provide treatment for children, adolescents, and their families with a range of developmental and behavioral difficulties.
Core privileges are those procedures or privileges that any well-trained practitioner within a...
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...
Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of general surgery that focuses on providing surgical care for patients under 18 years of age. Pediatric surgeons are primarily concerned with the diagnosis, preoperative, operative, and postoperative management of surgical problems in children. Some medical...
Endocrinology is the subspecialty of internal medicine and pediatrics concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and investigation of disorders of the endocrine or ductless glands and other metabolic systems. The endocrine system includes the hypothalamus, thyroid, pancreas, adrenal...
Pediatric urology is the subspecialty of urology that is concerned with the diagnosis, management, and treatment of genitourinary and adrenal abnormalities and diseases in both males and females, from birth through adolescence.
Core privileges are those procedures or privileges that any...
