Description
Google treats physician and provider bio pages as YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) content, and one of the clearest ways to signal expertise, authoritativeness, and trust on those pages is complete, machine-readable schema markup. In practice, that markup is one of the easiest things to half-finish: a Physician block gets added when the page is built, then nobody circles back to fill in medicalSpecialty, link the provider to the practice’s Organization schema, or add an identifier once the NPI number is finally on hand.
Physician & Provider Schema Validator fetches your published pages the way a browser or Googlebot would, automatically finds the ones that look like a provider bio, and scores each one on five completeness signals:
– Physician/Person schema block present — is there structured data here at all?
– Credential shown — an honorific prefix/suffix or a clinical job title (MD, DO, NP, PA, DDS, DMD, and similar).
– medicalSpecialty property present — is the specialty machine-readable, not just mentioned in the bio text?
– Linked to practice — does affiliation or worksFor connect the provider back to the practice’s own Organization schema via @id?
– NPI identifier or profile link — an identifier property (like an NPI number) or a sameAs link to an external professional profile (Healthgrades, a state licensing board, etc.)
A page is recognized as a provider bio either because it already carries Physician/Person schema, or because its title carries a name pattern like “Dr. Jane Smith” or a trailing credential like “, MD” — so pages that should have schema but currently have none still get caught and flagged, instead of silently skipping exactly the pages this tool exists to find.
Results land on one screen: a site-wide average completeness score, a count of providers scoring 0-2 out of 5, and a per-provider table with a checkmark or dash for each of the five signals, so you know exactly what’s missing on which page before you go fix it.
This is a structure and completeness check, not a credential-accuracy check. A page can score 5/5 and still have the wrong specialty listed, or a typo in a name — verify the substance yourself. Think of this as removing a common, easy-to-miss gap in your schema, not a replacement for reviewing what the schema actually says.
Built for multi-provider healthcare and aesthetics practice sites — clinics, addiction treatment centers, dermatology and med spa practices, dental offices, and any regulated-industry site with more than one bio page to keep consistent. Requires WordPress 5.8+, PHP 7.4+. Instant download, install and scan in minutes.
