Talk:Specialty (medicine)

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[edit] REDIRECT

I am strongly in favor of redirecting this article to Medical specialist as it was before, as they cover virtually the same topic. I'd like to know the rationale for making them seperate.--Grendlefuzz 02:12, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merging

See discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Merge_of_Medical_speciality.2C_Medical_specialist.2C_Physician_specialty_codes_and_Surgical_specialties Mikael Häggström (talk) 17:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

The prior discussion is now archived at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Archive5#Merge of Medical speciality.2C Medical specialist.2C Physician specialty codes and Surgical specialties.

I would still like to see Surgical specialties merged with this article. Currently, the table in this article includes both surgical and medical specialties, which is nice for completeness and comparison. The current title implies medicine-only (non-surgical) specialties. Therefore, I propose renaming this article to "Specialty (medicine)." With this change, both medical and surgical specialties would fit under the one title and the articles can be merged. This new title would more accurately represent how "specialty" is used within the medical field. The formatting of the title is consistent with other related articles (i.e. Fellowship (medicine), Internship (medicine), Residency (medicine), Board certification (medicine)). --Scott Alter 00:34, 15 January 2008 (UTC)