Some medical experts have called for a standardized training and testing system for specialty physicians.

The Med Center has more than 100 primary care and specialty physicians on staff, providing a wide range of medical and surgical specialties.

The Polyclinic is one of Seattle's largest multi-specialty clinics, with more than 120 primary care and specialty physicians in most areas of medicine.

HealthCare Partners' medical group employs more than 700 primary care and specialty physicians at more than 60 locations.

The team includes specialty physicians and surgeons, athletic trainers, physical therapists, psychiatrists and/or psychologists, coaches, other personnel, and, of course, the athlete.

The hospital has 130 primary and specialty physicians and 130 beds.

Managed care is even correcting one of the medical sector's most intractable market failures: the excess supply of specialty physicians.

According to the journal Academic Medicine, a recent estimate projects an excess of 139,000 specialty physicians by the year 2000, nearly a third of the physician supply.

The department wants to move the specialty physicians at the Newington hospital to its West Haven site.

When the Medical Board in 1939 planned to invite 12 Jewish specialty physicians to Sweden, the doctors associations protested suggesting it would lead to unemployment.