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Occupational medicine is the medical specialty focused on the relationship between work and health, including workplace exposures, injury prevention, occupational disease, fitness for duty, disability management, and safe return to work.
Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also called PM&R or physiatry, is the medical specialty focused on restoring function, reducing disability, managing pain, and coordinating rehabilitation after illness, injury, or chronic conditions.
Sports medicine is the clinical field focused on active people, athletic injuries, exercise-related illness, prevention, diagnosis, rehabilitation, return-to-play decisions, and health across training and competition.
Sleep medicine is the clinical field focused on sleep, wakefulness, circadian timing, and sleep disorders, including diagnosis, testing, behavior change, devices, medicines, and long-term care.
Palliative care is specialized support for people living with serious illness, focused on symptom relief, communication, care planning, emotional support, family needs, and quality of life alongside other treatment when appropriate.
Neonatology is the pediatric subspecialty focused on newborns, especially premature, critically ill, low-birth-weight, or medically fragile infants who need specialized hospital and follow-up care.
Gynecology is the medical specialty focused on the female reproductive system and related pelvic health, including prevention, diagnosis, screening, contraception, menstrual concerns, infections, menopause, and cancer risk.
Obstetrics is the medical specialty focused on pregnancy, labor, childbirth, and the postpartum period, including routine prenatal care, risk assessment, delivery planning, complications, and maternal-fetal safety.
Family medicine is the medical specialty built around comprehensive primary care for people of all ages, combining prevention, acute care, chronic disease management, coordination, and long-term relationships.
Infectious disease is the medical specialty focused on illnesses caused by microbes, including diagnosis, treatment, prevention, outbreaks, vaccines, antimicrobial resistance, infection control, travel medicine, and global health.
Otolaryngology is the medical and surgical specialty focused on the ear, nose, throat, sinuses, voice, swallowing, hearing, balance, airway, sleep, and head and neck conditions.
Ophthalmology is the medical and surgical specialty focused on the eyes and visual system, including vision, eye disease, screening, diagnosis, imaging, medicines, laser care, surgery, and prevention of vision loss.
Hematology is the medical specialty focused on blood, bone marrow, blood cells, clotting, bleeding, anemia, transfusion, thrombosis, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, diagnosis, treatment, and long-term monitoring.
Rheumatology is the medical specialty focused on arthritis, autoimmune and inflammatory disease, joints, muscles, connective tissue, pain, mobility, diagnosis, long-term monitoring, and immune-targeted treatment.
Neurology is the medical specialty focused on the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, sensation, movement, cognition, seizures, stroke, headache, neurodegenerative disease, testing, treatment, and rehabilitation.
Psychiatry is the medical specialty focused on mental health, including diagnosis, treatment, prevention, crisis care, medications, psychotherapy, brain stimulation, recovery, and the links between mind, brain, body, and society.
Oncology is the medical specialty focused on cancer, including prevention, screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, systemic therapy, radiation, surgery, clinical trials, palliative care, and survivorship.
Geriatrics is the medical specialty focused on health care for older adults, especially when aging, multiple conditions, medicines, function, memory, mobility, frailty, caregiving, and goals of care interact.
Pediatrics is the medical specialty focused on infants, children, adolescents, and young adults, including growth, development, prevention, vaccines, acute illness, chronic conditions, mental health, and family-centered care.
Urology is the medical and surgical specialty focused on the urinary tract, bladder, kidneys, ureters, urethra, prostate, male reproductive organs, stones, infections, continence, sexual health, cancer, and reconstructive care.
Orthopedics is the medical specialty focused on the musculoskeletal system, including bones, joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, injuries, arthritis, deformity, imaging, surgery, implants, rehabilitation, and mobility.
Dermatology is the medical specialty focused on the skin, hair, nails, mucous membranes, rashes, infections, inflammatory disease, procedures, skin cancer prevention, and long-term skin health.
Endocrinology is the medical specialty focused on hormones and endocrine glands, including diabetes, thyroid disease, metabolism, growth, reproduction, adrenal disorders, bone-mineral balance, and hormone testing.
Nephrology is the medical specialty focused on the kidneys, including blood filtration, fluid balance, electrolytes, blood pressure, kidney disease, dialysis, transplant care, and prevention.