Medical Specialties Overview

Encyclopedia: Specialty (medicine)

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A specialty in medicine is a branch of medical science, other than general practice. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency. Doctors who engage in a medical specialty are known as medical specialists. The mean annual salary of a medical specialist is 175,011 for surgeons. Although medical specialists in other countries on average...


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  • Question about medical specialties - 15 replies

    Can a doctor who already has a specialty in (say surgery) change his specialty later on in his life It is possible to change specialties. I'm not sure of the specifics, but I do believe...

    Jul 20, 2008

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    Ahoj, I would like to know some words for medical specialties in Czech, it seems that in some cases ? I imagine that in certificates, medical events, doctors tend to use the "greek" one... but people

    Oct 28, 2008

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    the age where there's pressure to start a family, there's a tendency to shy away from the specialties from the specialties that require long prereq and training periods (IE Plastic Surgery...

    Oct 13, 2006

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What are the salaries of different medical specialties?
How much do doctors of various medical specialties, such as neurology, cardiology, ect, get paid?...

Salary.com has a free profile report that you can fill out to get more detailed, customized report. The mean salary for a neurosurgeon, though, appears to be 200,000. Additionally, the...

Asked by N J - 23 months ago

Are there any medical specialties that don't require any surgeries, giving needles, etc?
Or do students in medical school have to do things like this anyway before they...

Stuff like that shouldn't get to you after doing a cadaver dissection. Either way, you have to do all of it as part of your third and fourth year rotations....

Asked by rwfocus007 - 14 months ago


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