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Corticosteroids
Reviews basic dermoscopy.
Differential Diagnosis
Fever and Rash Differential Diagnosis
This one-page table outlines a systematic approach to the differential diagnosis of fever and rash.
Kusch Manual of Differential Diagnosis
This booklet is invaluable to the first-year dermatology resident in helping to formulate lists of differential diagnoses based upon primary lesions, rash distributions, and some unique patient subsets.
How to use DPCP for alopecia areata.
Mnemonics
This page provides some tried-and-true mnemonics for common board-related facts.
In using memory "tricks," it helps to associate pictures with each other. I assigned a fixed picture to each letter of the alphabet. So, for example, when you try to remember POEMS syndrome (Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, M protein, and Skin findings), you can imagine an octopus playing an organ, leading you to remember Organomegaly. And so on for the other letters. Use your imagination! But, you must invest the time to remember that A is always "apple," etc.
Suture Mnemonics [Photo 1] [Photo 2]
This lecture provides silly memory techniques to remember the generic and brand names of sutures and some of their characteristics.
This is an instruction sheet for how to use open wet dressings in the erythrodermic patient.
This is a PDF of the T.R.U.E. Test key for reading positive and negative patch tests.
This page provides a checklist of considerations in the management of toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Vasculitis Work-Up and Therapy
These are some notes to which I referred as a resident on the consult service when dealing with leukocytoclastic vasculitis.
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