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...

Background Over half of dermatologic conditions are seen by nondermatologists, yet medical students receive little dermatology education. Medical students in the clinical years of training at our institution felt insecure in their physical diagnosis skills for dermatologic conditions. Objective The objective of this study was to implement dermatology-focused curricula within the Internal Medi...

This study provides rankings of individual US dermatology residency programs based on a number of factors, including annual amount of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding received in 2014, number of publications by full-time faculty members in 2014, and number of faculty lectures given at 5 annual society meetings. The overall ranking of the top 20 US dermatology residency programs is gi...

BACKGROUND Problem based learning (PBL) is used increasingly in undergraduate medical education, but there are few postgraduate medical studies. AIM To compare SHO learning outcomes for a PBL course with a traditional didactic course. METHODS As part of their protected teaching programme, 14 senior house officers (SHOs) were taught about paediatric dermatology using a traditional didactic c...

Vol. 30, No. 1, 2018 107 Received November 1, 2016, Revised December 29, 2016, Accepted for publication January 26, 2017 Corresponding author: Yan Wu, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of China Medical University, 155 North Nanjing Street, Shenyang 110001, China. Tel: 86-24-83282116, Fax: 86-24-83282633, E-mail: [email protected] Xinghua Gao, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of C...

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...

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...