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Improving Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection Education in US Medical Schools
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Early detection and excision of skin cancers has the potential to significantly improve health outcomes.1-2 Unfortunately, few primary care physicians perform skin cancer screening routinely. Inadequate training and low confidence in their ability to recognize skin cancer are potential barriers.3 Educating all physicians regarding skin cancer detection and prevention could have a profound public health impact; however, most medical students graduate without ever performing a skin cancer examination.4
This study describes current instruction about skin cancer obtained in discussion groups conducted in 2004 with medical students at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass; Harvard Medical School, Boston; Brown Medical School, Providence, RI; University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester; and Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH. The chairs of dermatology at each of the 5 New England schools identified a faculty person primarily responsible for medical student dermatology education. Each educator enlisted a medical student to coordinate the student discussion group. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Heather A. Brandling-Bennett, MD;
Laura A. Capaldi, MD;
Barbara A. Gilchrest, MD;
Alan C. Geller, MPH, RN
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