Answering the call to diversify the dermatology curriculum in undergraduate medical education-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Answering the call to diversify the dermatology curriculum in undergraduate medical education

Published:2023-07-21 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0307-6938
Container-title:Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
language:en
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Author:

Okorie Chiamaka L¹^ORCID,Bennett Raven¹,Aaron Denise M¹²,Foster-Johnson Lynn¹²³⁴,Dagrosa Alicia T¹⁵³

Affiliation:

1. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth , Hanover, NH , USA

2. Department of Dermatology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center , Lebanon, NH , USA

3. Department of Medical Education, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth , Hanover, NH , USA

4. The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice , Lebanon, NH , USA

5. Department of Dermatology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center , Lebanon , NH, USA

Abstract

Limited exposure to dermatological diseases across a range of skin tones can lead to diagnostic inaccuracies and lower diagnostic self-confidence. This study demonstrates that a short-term dermatology course is feasible and beneficial for increasing diagnostic skills across a range of skin tones, especially when skin of colour education is intentional.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Dermatology

Link

https://academic.oup.com/ced/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/ced/llad246/51472594/llad246.pdf

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