Initial Certification

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Initial Certification Statistics

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Certification statistics through December 31, 2007

Specialty/Subspecialty	Year Certification Began	Certificates Issued in 2007	*Total Certificates Issued as of December 31, 2007**
Psychiatry	1935	1,203	45,860
Neurology	1935	426	13,103
Neurology with special qualification in child neurology	1968	67	1,612
Neuropsychiatry	1935	Last certificate awarded in 1969	827
Subspecialty of addiction psychiatry	1993	examination offered in 2008	1,959
Subspecialty of child and adolescent psychiatry	1959	234	6,375
Subspecialty of clinical neurophysiology	1992	182	1,812
Subspecialty of forensic psychiatry	1994	99	1,693
Subspecialty of geriatric psychiatry	1991	examination offered in 2008	2,824
Subspecialty of hospice and palliative medicine	2008**
Subspecialty of neurodevelopmental disabilities	2001	12	67
Subspecialty of neuromuscular medicine	2008**
Subspecialty of pain medicine	2000	8	243
Subspecialty of psychosomatic medicine	2005	examination offered in 2008	583
Subspecialty of vascular neurology	2005	examination offered in 2008	379
Subspecialty of sleep medicine	2007	340	340