The DynaMed API POST /v1/user/followed-specialties endpoint adds a specialty to the list of followed specialties for a user.

Basic Adding of a Speciality

To Add a Specialty to a User's Followed List (example):

Gather the following information for the request:

Request

POST https://apis.ebsco.com/medsapi-dynamed/v1/user/followed-specialties

{
  "id": "Allergy",
  "subscriptionType": "FOLLOW_NO_EMAILS"
}

Field	Description
id	Article ID
subscriptionType	FOLLOW_NO_EMAILS, PRACTICE_CHANGING_UPDATES, ALL_TOPIC_UPDATES

FOLLOW_NO_EMAILS - Follow the specialty article, but do NOT send emails when the article is updated

PRACTICE_CHANGING_UPDATES - Follow the specialty article and email if the article has practice changing information

ALL_TOPIC_UPDATES - Follow the specialty article and email for any changes to the article

The DynaMed POST followed specialties endpoint can return one of the error response codes.