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 Certificates	Subspecialty Certificates
American Board of Allergy and Immunology
Allergy and Immunology	No Subspecialties
American Board of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology	Adult Cardiac Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management* Hospice and Palliative Medicine Neurocritical Care Pain Medicine Pediatric Anesthesiology Sleep Medicine
American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Colon and Rectal Surgery	No Subspecialties
American Board of Dermatology
Dermatology	Dermatopathology Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery Pediatric Dermatology
American Board of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine	Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Emergency Medical Services Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management* Hospice and Palliative Medicine Internal Medicine-Critical Care Medicine Medical Toxicology Neurocritical Care Pain Medicine Pediatric Emergency Medicine Sports Medicine Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
American Board of Family Medicine
Family Medicine	Adolescent Medicine Geriatric Medicine Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management* Hospice and Palliative Medicine Pain Medicine Sleep Medicine Sports Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine	Adolescent Medicine Adult Congenital Heart Disease Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Cardiovascular Disease Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Critical Care Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Gastroenterology Geriatric Medicine Hematology Hospice and Palliative Medicine Infectious Disease Interventional Cardiology Medical Oncology Nephrology Neurocritical Care Pulmonary Disease Rheumatology Sleep Medicine Sports Medicine Transplant Hepatology
American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics
Clinical Biochemical Genetics Clinical Genetics and Genomics (MD) Laboratory Genetics and Genomics	Medical Biochemical Genetics Molecular Genetic Pathology
American Board of Neurological Surgery
Neurological Surgery	Neurocritical Care
American Board of Nuclear Medicine
Nuclear Medicine	No Subspecialties
American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Obstetrics and Gynecology	Complex Family Planning Critical Care Medicine Gynecologic Oncology Maternal–Fetal Medicine Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery
American Board of Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology	No Subspecialties
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery	Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Surgery of the Hand
American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery	Complex Pediatric Otolaryngology Neurotology Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck* Sleep Medicine
American Board of Pathology
Pathology – Anatomic/Pathology - Clinical Pathology – Anatomic Pathology – Clinical	Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Clinical Informatics Cytopathology Dermatopathology Hematopathology Neuropathology Pathology – Chemical Pathology – Forensic Pathology – Medical Microbiology Pathology – Molecular Genetic Pathology – Pediatric
American Board of Pediatrics
Pediatrics	Adolescent Medicine Child Abuse Pediatrics Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Hospice and Palliative Medicine Medical Toxicology Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Pediatric Cardiology Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Emergency Medicine Pediatric Endocrinology Pediatric Gastroenterology Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Pediatric Hospital Medicine Pediatric Infectious Diseases Pediatric Nephrology Pediatric Pulmonology Pediatric Rheumatology Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Sleep Medicine Sports Medicine
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	Brain Injury Medicine Neuromuscular Medicine Pain Medicine Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Sports Medicine
American Board of Plastic Surgery
Plastic Surgery	Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck* Surgery of the Hand
American Board of Preventive Medicine
Aerospace Medicine Occupational and Environmental Medicine Public Health and General Preventive Medicine	Addiction Medicine Clinical Informatics Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management* Medical Toxicology Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Psychiatry Neurology Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology	Addiction Psychiatry Brain Injury Medicine Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinical Neurophysiology Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Epilepsy Forensic Psychiatry Geriatric Psychiatry Neurocritical Care Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Neuromuscular Medicine Pain Medicine Sleep Medicine Vascular Neurology
American Board of Radiology
Diagnostic Radiology Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology Medical Physics (Diagnostic, Nuclear, Therapeutic) Radiation Oncology	Neuroradiology Nuclear Radiology Pain Medicine Pediatric Radiology
American Board of Surgery
General Surgery Vascular Surgery	Complex General Surgical Oncology Pediatric Surgery Surgery of the Hand Surgical Critical Care
American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery	Congenital Cardiac Surgery
American Board of Urology
Urology	Pediatric Urology Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery

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].