What Every Graduating Dermatology Resident Should Know Before Signing a Contract
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 …
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.
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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 … 
Welcome to the April edition the JDD Highlights! Each month, we dive into the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology to bring you the most impactful research and clinical updates selected by the editor.
This month’s selection reflects the rapidly evolving landscape of modern dermatology. From the diagnostic precision of Artificial Intelligence in nail disorders to the "cosmetic elegance" of seborrhe … 
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Do implicit bias and race-compliance stereotyping impact clinical decision making in psoriasis? A feasibility study published in the February issue of the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology sought to answer this question.
To learn more about the key findings and takeaways, I interviewed one of the authors, Rithu Srikantha, MD, associate professor of dermatology at the Feinberg School of Medicine/N …