What role should physician extenders play in diagnosing skin cancer?
Late last year, a piece in the New York Times brought together several politically charged issues in our specialty and thrust them into the national spotlight. Katie Hefner and Griffin Palmer’s “Skin Cancers Rise, Along With Questionable treatments” sought to investigate the ethics behind diagnosing and treating skin cancer. The scope of the article was actually quite broad, touching on the …
Late last year, a piece in the New York Times brought together several politically charged issues in our specialty and thrust them into the national spotlight. Katie Hefner and Griffin Palmer’s “Skin Cancers Rise, Along With Questionable treatments” sought to investigate the ethics behind diagnosing and treating skin cancer. The scope of the article was actually quite broad, touching on the … Continue reading "What role should physician extenders play in diagnosing skin cancer?"
What is the next step when seeing this patient?
A) No further work up needed
B) Endoscopy to look for vascular malformations w/ potential GI bleeding
C) Careful follow up to monitor for malignant transformation, including possible imaging and biopsy in the future.
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PART 1
This June, I had the pleasure of attending the Real World Dermatology for Residents conference in Las Vegas. This conference brought together distinguished dermatologists from across the country to educate residents on practical topics that ranged from treatment guidelines, to clinical pears, to advice about achieving success on the boards. Here are some of the pearls I took … 
Connective tissue diseases are a boards favorite, and lab interpretation, including identifying ANA patterns from photos, are fair game. I’ve put together the following table of ANA patterns as well as their associated disease states and autoantibodies for easy memorization (and easy points!).
Image sources:
Centromere: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Centromere-staining_fig9_452 … 
In this five-part series, I have discussed the essential characteristics of developing customized skincare routines for patients to increase efficacy and outcomes, as well as reduce side effects. I’ve also outlined the features of the Skin Type Solutions System, which helps doctors assess the Baumann Skin Type® of each patient without requiring an additional time commitment from doctors or staf …