surgical specialties
Medical cutting fields
Surgical specialties are the branches of medicine focused on operative procedures within specific body systems or patient populations.
General surgery covers the abdomen and soft tissues, while orthopedic surgery addresses bones and joints, neurosurgery the brain and spine, and cardiothoracic surgery the heart and lungs.
Other specialties include plastic surgery, vascular surgery, and pediatric surgery.
Surgeons typically complete additional fellowship training beyond general surgical residency to practice in these areas.
- neurosurgeryMedical field treating brain surgically
- urologyUrinary tract medicine
- otolaryngologyStudy of ear, nose, throat
- joint replacementImplanting artificial articulation
- microsurgeryMagnified procedures on minute structures
ophthalmology · scrubbing in · organ transplant · operating theater · under the knife · fellowship
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Focused areas of healthcare practice
internal medicine · medical management · psychiatry · pharmacotherapy · clinical medicine
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Frontline medical care
family medicine · primary care · general practitioners · GP · family doctors
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