Dermatology Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

Club Dermaweb

• Description: "The dermatology network of health professionals."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Dermatology Community on MEDPEDIA

• Description: "The Dermatology Community is for both medical professionals and non-professionals that are interested in dermatology topics, including: acne, melanoma and other skin cancers, Rosacea, dry/oily skin, face products, mole removal, scars, and drugs (including oral medications like Accutane or Minocycline, and topical treatments, like Retin-A, Clindamycin, Benzoyl Peroxide, Salicylic Acid, etc.)"
• Quality: Medpedia is a medical encyclopaedia managed and edited by medical professionals.

dermatologychannel

• Description: "Dermatologychannel provides comprehensive, trustworthy information about skin care and conditions that affect the skin, such as acne, psoriasis, and skin cancer."
• Quality: "Developed and monitored by board-certified physicians"

dermRounds

• Description: "Welcome to dermRounds - based on tradition of "Dermatology Rounds," created by dermatologists, this is a social and professional networking site dedicated to connecting dermatologists, residents, fellows, other physicians, health professionals, industry leaders, and anyone who is in the field of dermatology!"
• Quality: A large group of dermatologists and dermatology professionals.

Doctors Lounge

• Description: "Doctors Lounge is one of the most popular online medical resources for physicians, students and allied clinical professionals. It provides clinical information through multimedia tutorials and other study aids. Both patients and professionals can seek answers to medical questions via the public discussion boards, also known as the medical forums."
• Quality: "Currently our content spans 20 medical specialties with over 20,000 pages of medical information. Our members have written over 10,000 medical articles and answered more than 30,000 medical questions. Our content is currently being taught in medical schools worldwide and is part of the student curriculum for medical students in two international medical schools."

MedHelp Dermatology Community

• Description: "The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 8 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions. MedHelp has over 15 years of accumulated information from doctors and other patients across hundreds of conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Student Doctor Network - Dermatology Forum

• Description: "The mission of SDN is to assist and encourage all students through the challenging and complicated healthcare education process."
• Quality: "With over 200,000 members and well over 8 million posts, our community can answer practically any question you may have, from college through medical practice."

The Community for Teledermatology / Dermatology

• Description: "The goal of the Community for Teledermatology | Dermatology is to create a surplus value for experts, physicians and healthcare workers interested in dermatology and teledermatology."
• Quality: "Users are invited to submit clinical and dermatopathologic cases of interest to the discussion forum thus making them available for viewing and comment by all other members. The list of moderators is also available."

Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous dermatology groups:

American Academy of Dermatology

• Description and content: "The American Academy of Dermatology is the largest, most influential and most representative of all dermatologic associations. The Academy is committed to excellence in patient care, medical and public education, research, professionalism and member service and support."

Dermatologists World Wide

• Description and content: "Discussion forum and network for dermatologists around the world. To join you should be a dermatology resident or certified dermatologist."

Dermatology Nurses' Association

• Description and content: "The Dermatology Nurses' Association is a professional nursing organization comprised of a diverse group of individuals committed to quality care through sharing knowledge and expertise. The core purpose of the DNA is to promote excellence in dermatologic care."

Global Dermatology: Europe-Asia Dermatologist Workgroup

• Description and content: "Skin Physicians are often faced with patients coming from different cultural backgrounds. This can influence negatively the quality of the management of skin disorders in the "globalized" patient."

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