Subspecialty: Difference between revisions

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{{Short description|Narrow field within a specialty}}

A '''subspecialty''' (US English) or '''subspeciality''' (international English) is a narrow field of professional [[knowledge]]/[[skill]]s within a specialty of [[trade (occupation)|trade]], and is most commonly used to describe the increasingly more diverse [[specialty (medicine)|medical specialties]].  A '''subspecialist''' is a specialist of a subspecialty.

In [[medicine]], subspecialization is particularly common in [[internal medicine]], [[cardiology]], [[neurology]] and [[pathology]], and has grown as medical practice has:

# become more complex, and

# it has become clear that a [[physician]]'s case volume is negatively associated with their complication rate; that is, complications tend to decrease as the volume of cases per physician goes up.

* [[Medical specialty]]

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[[Category:Medical specialties]]

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