MedicalSpecialty

schema:Thing > schema:Intangible > schema:Enumeration > schema:MedicalSpecialty
schema:Thing > schema:Intangible > schema:Enumeration > schema:MedicalEnumeration > schema:MedicalSpecialty
schema:Thing > schema:Intangible > schema:Enumeration > schema:Specialty > schema:MedicalSpecialty
schema:Thing > schema:MedicalEntity > schema:MedicalIntangible > schema:MedicalEnumeration > schema: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.

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from schema:MedicalEntity
`schema:code`	schema:MedicalCode	A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc.
`schema:guideline`	schema:MedicalGuideline	A medical guideline related to this entity.
`schema:medicineSystem`	schema:MedicineSystem	The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc.
`schema:recognizingAuthority`	schema:Organization	If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine.
`schema:relevantSpecialty`	schema:MedicalSpecialty	If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant.
`schema:study`	schema:MedicalStudy	A medical study or trial related to this entity.
Properties from schema:Thing
`schema:additionalType`	schema:URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
`schema:alternateName`	schema:Text	An alias for the item.
`schema:description`	schema:Text	A short description of the item.
`schema:image`	schema:ImageObject or schema:URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`schema:name`	schema:Text	The name of the item.
`schema:potentialAction`	schema:Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`schema:sameAs`	schema:URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.
`schema:url`	schema:URL	URL of the item.

Instances of schema:MedicalSpecialty may appear as values for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
`schema:medicalSpecialty`	schema:MedicalClinic or schema:Hospital or schema:Physician	A medical specialty of the provider.
`schema:relevantSpecialty`	schema:MedicalEntity	If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant.