Find Accreditation, Licensing & Professional Affiliations

The resources below will help you to locate current information about accreditation/licensing, or professional affiliations. To locate historical information on a past and present persons in the biomedical sciences see the history of medicine page. The sites below were selected based upon the authority and/or reputation of the issuing body in addition to the quality and organization of the website. To search the Library's holdings for specialty directories, run a subject keyword search for "Physicians United States Directories"

Current information about accreditation, licensing, or professional affiliations.

American Board of Medical Specialties This service allows the public to verify, free of charge, the board certification status, location by city and state and specialty of any physician certified by one or more of the 24 Member Boards of the ABMS. In Print: The Official ABMS directory of board certified medical specialists. Crerar Reference, floor 1 R712.A1O43
American Dental Association Member Directory The ADA Member Directory is compiled and published by the American Dental Association as a reference source of demographic and professional information on individual dentists in the United States.
American Medical Association - Physician Select AMA Physician Select provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO). In Print: Directory of physicians in the United States / American Medical Association. Crerar Reference, floor 1 R712.A1A5
American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Physician Database Entries in the membership list are based on information reported to the AOA Department of Membership and may not have come from or been verified with primary sources.
Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors - DocFinder Combined database of all licensing jurisdictions that has its direct source of data from and controlled by state licensing boards.
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States National organization comprised of the 70 medical boards of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

If you have any questions about resources or services available to the biomedical sciences community please contact Deb Werner, Biomedical Reference Librarian or Christa Modschiedler, Biomedical Bibliographer & Reference Librarian. You may also email the Crerar Reference Staff.

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