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Ways the career can specialize

• Pediatric rheumatology

  Children with juvenile arthritis and lupus. A separate fellowship route and one of the most short-staffed fields in medicine.

• Musculoskeletal ultrasound

  Scanning joints in clinic instead of sending patients away for imaging. An extra certification that adds procedures to your day.

• Clinical trials and research

  Autoimmune drug development is one of the busiest areas in medicine, and academic rheumatologists sit at the center of it.

• Lupus and vasculitis centers

  Specialist clinics at academic hospitals that take the hardest cases from a whole region.