Welcome to Dermatology: 4 Tips That Actually Matter for First Years
Congratulations on starting dermatology residency! It’s thrilling, humbling, and yes—sometimes downright overwhelming. You’ll stretch both personally and professionally over the next year, and the lessons you learn now will shape your entire career. There are many unknowns, and it’s hard to navigate expectations. Don’t worry! I’ve been there too. Here’s some real advice that will hel …
Congratulations on starting dermatology residency! It’s thrilling, humbling, and yes—sometimes downright overwhelming. You’ll stretch both personally and professionally over the next year, and the lessons you learn now will shape your entire career. There are many unknowns, and it’s hard to navigate expectations. Don’t worry! I’ve been there too. Here’s some real advice that will hel … Continue reading "Welcome to Dermatology: 4 Tips That Actually Matter for First Years"
My colleagues often joke about how much my patients “love me.”
Over the years, I’ve come to think that what they are really seeing in my patients is a profound commitment to the therapeutic relationship: a willingness to trust the plan we have laid out and a deep engagement in their own care, even when visits are short and clinic is moving fast.
For physicians, that same commitment is … 
In the continuity clinic, the patients are there to see you! Most residency programs have some kind of continuity clinic. They vary across institutions and even across sites within the same institution. They can vary from one half-day per week to two full days per week, and be at the same site throughout the residency or change. An attending may staff each patient, or they may only see a patient i … 
You have spent years in school learning medicine, completed a dermatology residency, and maybe even pursued fellowship training. After all that hard work, it is finally time to sign your first contract. Unfortunately, while residency prepares us to diagnose disease, perform procedures, and care for patients, it often provides little education on physician employment contracts.
As graduation app … 
Throughout your dermatology training, you will pour over thousands of clinical photographs as you learn to identify various conditions. This will be coupled with viewing patients in person and learning to identify subtleties in morphology and presentation to make a diagnosis. No matter how robust and busy your training center is, it would be impossible to see everything. Therefore, the clinical im …