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The following are the ANZCAP recognised specialty practice areas for individual recognition at registrar and consultant level, including abbreviations used for Badges & Recognitions, for post-nominals and icons for each.

Specialty practice area 
(Full name)

Abbreviation for Badges & Recognitions

 Abbreviation for post-nominals

Specialty practice areas icons

Addiction Medicine 

AddictionMed 

AddMed. 

Cancer Medicine 

CancerMed 

OncHaem 

Cardiology 

Cardiology 

Cardiol. 

Clinical Trials 

ClinTrials 

ClinTrials 

Community Pharmacy 

CommunityPharm 

CommPharm 

Compounding 

Compounding 

Compound. 

Critical Care 

CriticalCare 

CritCare 

Dermatology 

Dermatology 

Derm. 

Digital Health 

DigitalHealth 

DigiHealth 

Education 

Education 

Edu.  

Emergency Medicine 

EmergencyMed 

EmergMed 

Endocrinology 

Endocrinology 

Endo. 

Gastroenterology 

Gastro 

Gastro. 

Generalist 

Generalist 

Generalist 

General Medicine 

GeneralMed 

GenMed 

Geriatric Medicine 

GeriatricMed 

GeriMed 

Infectious Diseases 

InfectiousDis 

InfDis 

Leadership and Management 

Lead&Mgmt 

Lead&Mgmt 

Medication Safety 

Includes DUE and MUE 

MedSafety 

MedSafety 

Medicines Information 

MedInfo 

MedInfo 

Medication supply  

Including Dispensing/ distribution & Formulary management 

MedSupply 

MedSupply 

Mental Health 

MentalHealth 

MentalHlth 

Neonatology 

Neonatology 

Neonatol. 

Nephrology 

Nephrology 

Neph. 

Neurology 

Neurology 

Neuro. 

Ophthalmology  

Ophthalmology 

Ophthal. 

Paediatrics 

Paediatrics 

Paeds 

Pain Management 

PainMgmt 

PainMgmt 

Palliative Care 

PallCare 

PallCare 

Perioperative Medicine 

PeriopMed 

PeriopMed 

Primary care 

including GP pharmacists, MMR/RMMR, RAC pharmacists 

PrimaryCare 

PrimCare 

Research 

Including academic researchers (i.e. uni research positions) 

Research 

Research 

Respiratory 

Respiratory 

Resp. 

Surgery 

Surgery 

Surg. 

Stewardship 

Can be selected along with another specialty area (i.e. ID for AMS) 

Stewardship 

Steward 

Transitions of care  

Including HARP and HOMR 

TransitionCare 

ToC 

Transplant 

Can be selected along with another specialty (i.e. Nephrology for renal transplant) 

Transplant 

Transplant 

Voluntary Assisted Dying 

VAD 

VAD 

Women’s Health 

WomensHealth 

ObsGynae 

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