Dermatology is one of the most competitive medical specialties to apply for residency. There a lack diversity in dermatology, and cause multifactorial. This article explores personal experience applying dermatology as an applicant color outlines ways that future students can be successful match process dermatology.

Subcutaneous mycoses are among the skin diseases with the greatest morbidity in rural areas in Guerrero Mexico. Our state is located along the Pacific coast in the southwest of the Mexican Republic; a major feature is the huge range of the “Sierra Madre del Sur” mountains, that cross the full length of the state . Guerrero is divided into seven natural regions (Figure 1). It has a temperature t...

1 Division of Evidence Based Medicine (dEBM), Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Skin Cancer Center (HTCC), Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Now: Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, St. Josef-Hospital, Universitätsklinikum de...

St John’s Institute of Dermatology, GKT School of Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, U.K. *Department of Dermatology, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport NP20 2UB, U.K. Department of Dermatology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 6NT, U.K. The Dermatology Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford, Manchester M6 8HD, U.K. §Psoriatic Arthropathy Alliance, PO Box 111, St Albans AL2 3JQ, U.K. –Department o...

Axel Hauschild*, Helmut Breuninger*, Roland Kaufmann, Rolf-Dieter Kortmann, Martin Klein, Jochen Werner, Julia Reifenberger, Thomas Dirschka, Claus Garbe (1) Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Kiel, Germany (2) Department of Dermatology, Tübingen University Hospital, Germany (3) Department of Dermatology, Frankfurt University Hospital, Germany (4) D...

†Division of Evidence-Based Medicine, Klinik für Dermatologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ‡Department of Dermatocancerolgy, Nantes University Hospital, Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France, §Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Dermatology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, –Dermatologist in Private Practice, Munich, Germany, **Department of Dermatol...

INTRODUCTION Good quality documentation of dermatology consults in discharge summaries allows diagnostic and therapeutic plans to be communicated to other health professionals and ensures that appropriate governmental funds are provided to dermatology departments. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed of all dermatology consults seen in 2013 at a public tertiary hospital in Sydney, A...

Resident in Dermatology, Federal Fluminense University, Antônio Pedro Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Niteroi RJ, Brazil; Resident in Neurology, Federal Fluminense University, Antônio Pedro Hospital, Department of Neurology, Niterói RJ, Brazil; Professor of the Dermatology Department, Federal Fluminense University, Antônio Pedro Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Niteroi RJ, Brazil; Chai...

1 State Medical Diagnostic Center, Dermatology, Almaty, Kazakhstan; 2 Kazakh Medical University Continuing Education, Dermatology, Manas Street 34, Almaty 050057, Kazakhstan; 3 University G. Marconi of Rome, Dermatology and Venereology, Rome 00192, Italy; 4 Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior, Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatologic Surgery; Onkoderma, private clinic for dermatologi...

BACKGROUND Thomson Institute for Scientific Information's journal impact factor, the most common measure of journal status, is based on crude citation counts that do not account for the quality of the journals where the citations originate. This study examines how accounting for citation origin affects the impact factor ranking of dermatology journals. METHODS The 2003 impact factors of derma...