
Categories of discipline recognition
The Royal College defines the requirements for specialty education in areas of medical, surgical, and laboratory medicine

Areas of Focused Competence (AFC) programs
Areas of Focused Competence (AFC) are a specialized discipline of specialty medicine that address a legitimate societal need

Fundamentals program
A fundamentals program is based on a primary core curriculum of competencies common across a domain of medicine

Special Interest Groups of Medical Activity (SIGMA)
SIGMAs recognize disciplines that are emerging fields of interest & meet a legitimate societal need, but do not yet have an established practice base