A mammogram is an x-ray picture of the breast. Mammograms can be used to check for breast cancer in women who have no signs or symptoms of the disease. This type of mammogram is called a screening mammogram.
Board certified: In medicine, a description for a physician who has taken and passed a medical specialty examination by one of several recognized boards of specialists. Before obtaining board certification, the physician must become board eligible.
1 Board certification is different from possessing a medical license, which is the minimum required by law to practice medicine and is not specialty specific.  In 1976, the ABS switched from certificates that were valid indefinitely to certificates that must be renewed every 10 years.