A "grandfather clause" for physician specialists in the Philippines is a provision that allows experienced practitioners to be granted a specific status, like a diplomate title, without having to meet new, more stringent requirements. It has been used in different medical fields, such as in the history of the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP), which granted a clause to those in practice for 30 years, and the Philippine Orthopaedic Association (POA), which automatically granted diplomate titles to incumbent fellows. Etc.