The Importance of Running a Team Oriented Practice and Cultivating Cultural Awareness
Cultural awareness is an important part of your new practice. When starting your practice, it’s most important to remember that it’s hard. It’s hard to start making decisions for your patients, you will wake up at night thinking about your patients, you will spend long hours making sure that one medication was given the right way.
You will train your staff to be part of a team—a …
Cultural awareness is an important part of your new practice. When starting your practice, it’s most important to remember that it’s hard. It’s hard to start making decisions for your patients, you will wake up at night thinking about your patients, you will spend long hours making sure that one medication was given the right way.
You will train your staff to be part of a team—a … 
Scott Beals, DO
Dermatology Surgery Center-Crestview, Niceville, Andalusia
Crestview, FL
1. The most important thing I learned from starting a practice 10yrs ago, make an investment and get a good practice management consultant
2. Too many areas to consider when starting a practice
3. Start an electronic medical record
4. Keep up with medicare and government regulations
5. Get a high qual … 
One of the most challenging aspects of practicing medicine is ensuring consistently effective communication with patients.
This is particularly true in dermatology, where patient volume is relatively high compared to other fields. Many problems and pitfalls commonly encountered in practice are avoidable. If you and your staff take advantage of relatively novel yet simple methods of transmitting i … 
Dermatology is a relatively small and incredibly unique discipline within medicine.
With the typical medical school curriculum dedicating at most a few weeks to our specialties. And yet provides insights into the overall well-being of patients that are often priceless. Early in one’s career, it is easy to become so engrossed in mastering the rich and diverse nuances of our field that other impo … 
When I first started I wish that I had realized that you don’t have to be an expert in everything right off the bat.
It can be very intimidating to go to meetings and see all these amazing giants in the field get up on stage. You so badly want to be the one giving lectures and presenting the data. It takes time to develop these skills to get the confidence for you to get up there and to give th … 