Accreditation

The resources below will help you to locate current information about accreditation/licensing, or professional affiliations. The American Cancer Society has an excellent page on the issue of choosing your doctor. See their "Choosing a Doctor" page for important questions you should ask. To locate historical information on a past and present persons in the biomedical sciences see the history of medicine page.The Internet 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. Important Notice: This site is not approved by the JCAHO and NCQA for commercialdoc use to verify credentials of physician specialists. 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" ("Directory") is compiled and published by the American Dental Association ("ADA") 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) Yearbook and Directory 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 The health professional licensing database.  
  
  
• Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States National organization comprised of the 68 medical boards of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.