Specialty and Subspecialty Certificates
Click on the Member Board names below for contact information, brief description of the specialty, an overview of certification requirements, and descriptions of the individual specialty/subspecialty certificates offered by that board.
The focused practice designation, approved by ABMS in March 2017, recognizes the value that physicians and medical specialists (also known as diplomates) who focus some or all their practice within a specific area of a specialty and/or subspecialty can provide to improving health care.
For descriptions of all the medical specialties where certification is offered by an ABMS Member Board, see the complete ABMS Guide to Medical Specialties[PDF].