# medicalSpecialty

A medical specialty of the provider.

## Expected Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [MedicalSpecialty](https://schema.org.ai/MedicalSpecialty) | Any specific branch of medical science or practice. Medical specialities include clinical specialties that pertain to particular organ systems and their respective disease states, as well as allied health specialties. Enumerated type. |

## Used on Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [Hospital](https://schema.org.ai/Hospital) | A hospital. |
| [MedicalClinic](https://schema.org.ai/MedicalClinic) | A facility, often associated with a hospital or medical school, that is devoted to the specific diagnosis and/or healthcare. Previously limited to outpatients but with evolution it may be open to inpatients as well. |
| [MedicalOrganization](https://schema.org.ai/MedicalOrganization) | A medical organization (physical or not), such as hospital, institution or clinic. |
| [Physician](https://schema.org.ai/Physician) | An individual physician or a physician's office considered as a [MedicalOrganization](https://schema.org.ai/MedicalOrganization). |

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Quoted from Schema.org 30.1, https://schema.org/medicalSpecialty, under CC BY-SA 3.0. Served by the Org.AI Foundation at https://schema.org.ai/medicalSpecialty.