Health Care

Specialty Boards

Organizations which certify physicians and dentists as specialists in various fields of medical and dental practice.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

Organizations which certify physicians and dentists as specialists in various fields of medical and dental practice.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Board, Specialty
  • Boards, Specialty
  • Specialty Board

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specify specialty (IM) + geog

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History Note

91(Aug 77); was see under CERTIFICATION 1977-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Certification (1968-Jul 1977)
  • specific specialty (1968-Jul 1977)

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Tree Numbers

  1. N03w.706.110w.120w.580
  2. N05.700.200w.190w.750

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Specialty Boards. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013044. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013044
  2. Specialty Boards. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70451299