medical specialty
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branch of medicine concerning a specific group of diseases or population
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- medicine
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- Commons category
- Medical specialties
- topic's main category
- Category:Medical specialties
- equivalent class
- schema.org/MedicalSpecialty
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C17153
- practiced by
- medical specialist
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Encyclopedic overview
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A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy. Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children (pediatrics), cancer (oncology), laboratory medicine (pathology), or primary care (family medicine). After completing medical school or other basic training, physicians or surgeons and other clinicians usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple-year residency to become a specialist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “medical specialty” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.