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Specialties, Medical

Medical Definition: Various branches of medical practice limited to specialized areas.
Guide Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; coord IM with field or subject (IM); with biog: Manual 32.16.9, 34.4; policy: Manual 28.5, 28.7; DF: SPECIALTIES MED
Previously Indexed: Specialism (1966-1967)
Specialties, Medical Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Aerospace Medicine - A specialty which is concerned with the health and medical problems of man in AVIATION (aviation medicine) and SPACE FLIGHT.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Allergy and Immunology - A medical specialty concerned with the hypersensitivity of the individual to foreign substances and protection from the resultant infection or disorder.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Anesthesiology - A specialty concerned with the study of anesthetics and anesthesia.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Dermatology - A medical specialty concerned with the skin, its structure, functions, diseases, and treatment.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Emergency Medicine - A branch of medicine concerned with an individual's resuscitation, transportation and care from the point of injury or beginning of illness through the hospital or other emergency treatment facility.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Family Practice - A medical specialty concerned with the provision of continuing, comprehensive primary health care for the entire family.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Forensic Medicine - The application of medical knowledge to questions of law.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Hospitalists - Physicians who are employed to work exclusively in hospital settings, primarily for managed care organizations. They are the attending or primary responsible physician for the patient during hospitalization.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Internal Medicine - A medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the internal organ systems of adults.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Neurology - A medical specialty concerned with the study of the structures, functions, and diseases of the nervous system.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Pathology - A specialty concerned with the nature and cause of disease as expressed by changes in cellular or tissue structure and function caused by the disease process.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Pediatrics - A medical specialty concerned with maintaining health and providing medical care to children from birth to adolescence.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Physical Medicine - A medical specialty concerned with the use of physical agents, mechanical apparatus, and manipulation in rehabilitating physically diseased or injured patients.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Preventive Medicine - A medical specialty primarily concerned with prevention of disease (PRIMARY PREVENTION) and the promotion and preservation of health in the individual.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Public Health - Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Radiology - A specialty concerned with the use of x-ray and other forms of radiant energy in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Reproductive Medicine - A medical-surgical specialty concerned with the morphology, physiology, biochemistry, and pathology of reproduction in man and other animals, and on the biological, medical, and veterinary problems of fertility and lactation. It includes ovulation induction, diagnosis of infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss, and assisted reproductive technologies such as embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization, and intrafallopian transfer of zygotes. (From Infertility and Reproductive Medicine Clinics of North America, Foreword 1990; Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, Notice to Contributors, Jan 1979)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Venereology - A branch of medicine which deals with sexually transmitted disease.

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