Advanced Clinical Elective in Dermatology

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VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Elective. DESCRIPTION: A dermatology advanced clerkship designed for medical students interested in pursuing dermatology residency training. It consists of a 4-week clerkship based at the Stanford Medicine Outpatient Clinic in Redwood City, Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Palo Alto, and the Palo Alto VA. Students work closely with faculty to obtain strong clinical skills in the diagnosis and management of common skin disorders, participating in dermatopathology sessions, inpatient consultations, cutaneous oncology, surgery, and general and specialty adult dermatology clinics. Students are expected to attend Tuesday morning didactic teaching sessions as well as Dermatology Grand Rounds every Thursday morning. Students will be expected to give a case-based presentation at Grand Rounds during the rotation. Stanford medical students: To enroll, please contact Madison Siemers at [email protected] for more information. Outside Rotators: To apply, please submit a 310B SlideRoom application by the deadline listed in SlideRoom. Please do not submit applications directly to the Clerkship Office unless instructed to do so by the 310B course directors. Please note that the 310B rotation has an earlier application deadline that differs from the Stanford Clerkship Office application and the SCORE application. You must apply through the 310B SlideRoom application to be considered for selection as an outside rotator. The selection of outside rotators for the 310B clerkship will occur during the month of April each year. Any applications submitted after the 310B application deadline will not be reviewed. Learn more by visiting the 310B course description tab at: https://med.stanford.edu/dermatology/Education/Medical_Students.html. SCORE PROGRAM: This clerkship participates in the SCORE program. Please see the following for further…