Medical Specialists

Medical specialists are doctors who have completed advanced education and clinical training in a specific area of medicine (their specialty area). Examples of medical specialists include the following:

• Addiction psychiatrist
• Adolescent medicine specialist
• Allergist (immunologist)
• Anesthesiologist
• Cardiac electrophysiologist
• Cardiologist
• Cardiovascular surgeon
• Colon and rectal surgeon
• Critical care medicine specialist
• Dermatologist
• Developmental pediatrician
• Diagnostic radiologist
• Emergency medicine specialist
• Endocrinologist
• Family medicine physician
• Forensic pathologist
• Gastroenterologist
• General practitioner
• Geriatric medicine specialist
• Gynecologist
• Gynecologic oncologist
• Hand surgeon
• Hematologist
• Hepatologist
• Hospitalist
• Hyperbaric physician
• Infectious disease specialist
• Internist
• Interventional cardiologist
• Medical examiner
• Medical geneticist
• Medical oncologist
• Neonatologist
• Nephrologist
• Neurological surgeon
• Neurologist
• Nuclear medicine specialist
• Obstetrician
• Occupational medicine specialist
• Ophthalmologist
• Oral surgeon (maxillofacial surgeon)
• Orthopedic surgeon
• Osteopath
• Otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat specialist)
• Pain management specialist
• Pathologist
• Pediatrician
• Perinatologist
• Physiatrist
• Plastic surgeon
• Preventive medicine specialist
• Psychiatrist
• Pulmonologist
• Radiation oncologist
• Radiologist
• Reproductive endocrinologist
• Rheumatologist
• Sleep disorders specialist
• Spinal cord injury specialist
• Sports medicine specialist
• Surgeon
• Thoracic surgeon
• Urologist
• Vascular surgeon

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