Specialty and Subspecialty Certificates

  • Click on the Member Board names below for contact information, brief description of the specialty, and an overview of certification requirements.
  • Click on individual certificate names below to go directly to a description of that certificate.
  • 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. Learn more.
Specialty CertificatesSubspecialty Certificates
American Board of Allergy and Immunology
No Subspecialties
American Board of Anesthesiology
American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
No Subspecialties
American Board of Dermatology
American Board of Emergency Medicine
American Board of Family Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics
American Board of Neurological Surgery
American Board of Nuclear Medicine
No Subspecialties
American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
American Board of Ophthalmology
No Subspecialties
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
American Board of Pathology
American Board of Pediatrics
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
American Board of Plastic Surgery
American Board of Preventive Medicine
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
American Board of Radiology
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Thoracic Surgery
American Board of Urology
ABMS Guide to Medical Specialties 2023 (cover thumbnail)

*Subspecialties that have been approved, but not yet issued.

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].