A specialty in medicine is a branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency. Medical practitioners who engage in a medical specialty are known as medical specialists. Specialists may be Board Eligible or Board Certified. Board certified in medicine means a physician has taken and passed a medical specialty examination. Board eligible, by contrast, means that a physician has completed the requirements for admission to a medical specialty board examination but has not taken and passed the examination. For example, a physician must perform 3 years of training in an approved pediatric residency to be board eligible and then successfully complete a comprehensive written examination to be certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.

Attributes
«CS» Code	specialty	A code identifying the branch of medical science in which the provider has chosen to specialize. This code should be from the National Uniform Claims Committee (NUCC) codeset. "The Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set is a collection of unique alphanumeric codes, [... which] includes specialty categories for individuals, groups of individuals, and non-individuals." - NCPDP Script (Field 7990)

 specialty

Public «CS» Code specialty

A code identifying the branch of medical science in which the provider has chosen to specialize. This code should be from the National Uniform Claims Committee (NUCC) codeset.
"The Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set is a collection of unique alphanumeric codes, [... which] includes specialty categories for individuals, groups of individuals, and non-individuals." - NCPDP Script (Field 7990)

Constraints:

Properties:

Aggregation	None
Alias
Association
Association End
Class	Specialty
Datatype
Default
Default Value
Is Composite	false
Is Derived	false
Is Derived Union	false
Is Leaf	false
Is Ordered	false
Is Read Only	false
Is Static	false
Is Unique	true
Keywords
Lower	1
Lower Value	(1)
Multiplicity	1
Name	specialty
Name Expression
Namespace	Specialty
Opposite
Owner	Specialty
Owning Association
Owning Template Parameter
Qualified Name	FHIM::Provider::Specialty::specialty
Stereotype
Template Parameter
Type	«CS» Code
Upper	1
Upper Value	(1)
Visibility	Public