IMPORTANCE Curriculum and role modeling adjustments are necessary to address patient safety gaps occurring during dermatology residency. OBJECTIVE To identify the source of clinical practices among dermatology residents that affect patient safety and determine the best approach for overcoming gaps in knowledge and practice patterns that contribute to these practices. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PA...

Department of Dermatology, Zürich University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland; Louis-Jeantet Skin Cancer Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Immunology, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Topotarget Switzerland, Lausanne, Swit...

1Genetic Skin Disease Group, and 2Department of Immunofluorescence, St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, The Guy’s, King’s College and St. Thomas’ Hospitals’ Medical School, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom. 3Department of Dermatology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan. 4Department of Dermatology, The Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom. 5Lupus...

1Departments of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA 2Molecular Dermatology, Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Bern, 3001 Bern, Switzerland 3Departments of Dermatology and Cell and Developmental Biology, Charles C Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Biology, University of Colo...

Background: Open access journals are a new publication model for sharing scientific information. Objective: To compare the citation frequency of articles published by the same author in traditional pay-for-access and open access dermatology journals. Methods: Articles by authors who published in the open access dermatology journal with the most citations and in any of the five pay-for-access jo...

Since the discovery of X-rays, the use of imaging technology has continued to play an important role in medicine. Technological advancements have led to the development of various imaging modalities, most of which have been used to image organs deep within the human body. More recently, attention has focused on the application of imaging technology for evaluation of the skin. A variety of techn...

Evolutionarily, man is a terrestrial mammal, adapted to land. Aviation and now space/microgravity environment, hence, pose new challenges to our physiology. Exposure to these changes affects the human body in acute and chronic settings. Since skin reflects our mental and physical well-being, any change/side effects of this environment shall be detected on the skin. Aerospace industry offers a u...

The Ulster Medical Society grants to all users on the basis of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence the right to alter or build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creation is licensed under identical terms. In this edition of Curiositas we have a dermatology perspective on a range of interesting clinical cas...