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Medical school dermatology curriculum: are we adequately preparing primary care physicians?

BACKGROUND: There is a lack of information regarding the dermatology learning needs of primary care physicians and residents.

OBJECTIVE: To determine dermatologic topics that primary care physicians consider important and to determine primary care residents' ratings of the teaching adequacy of these topics in the undergraduate medical curriculum.

METHODS: Primary care physicians and residents were surveyed regarding the importance and teaching adequacy of 17 dermatologic content areas.

RESULTS: Ninety-two primary care physicians identified 13 dermatologic content areas important for their practices. Two hundred fifty-two primary care residents identified 8 adequately taught topics and 9 inadequately taught topics.

LIMITATIONS: Internal medicine and family medicine physicians and residents from only 10 regions were surveyed.

CONCLUSION: Seventeen content areas can be divided into 3 categories: dermatologic topics that are important and adequately taught, topics that are unimportant, and a group of important, yet inadequately taught content areas. This latter group should be further integrated into dermatology curricula at U.S. medical schools.

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