Adolescent Medicine: Subspecialty or Outcast?

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A subspecialty may be conceptualized as a relatively narrowly defined area of practice within a broader field, whose practitioners are expected to possess an expertise in that area significantly beyond that of the well trained generalist. In this sense adolescent medicine, as a subspecialty of pediatrics, has come of age. In 1972 the American Academy of Pediatrics clearly included the adolescent age group within the boundaries of the responsibility of pediatrics.1 The American Medical Association officially recognized the field as a specialty in 1977.2 Shortly thereafter a Section on Adolescent Medicine was formed within the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 1980 The Society for Adolescent Medicine published the inaugural issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health Care, the first scholarly journal devoted to the field.

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