Pediatric Dermatology

[mpsheeha]

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I am interested in ped dermatology and I am not sure where to get information on this specialty (hours, pay, most frequent cases treated, ect..). Any suggestions??? Also, I am unclear as to the best route to this specialty ie, peds residency with a fellowship in peds derm or do I need to do a derm residency. Frieda is not very helpful.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[baddabing]

hours- not many

pay- more than pediatrician, less than adult derm

most frequent cases- rashes

 

[KidDr]

I am interested in ped dermatology and I am not sure where to get information on this specialty (hours, pay, most frequent cases treated, ect..). Any suggestions??? Also, I am unclear as to the best route to this specialty ie, peds residency with a fellowship in peds derm or do I need to do a derm residency. Frieda is not very helpful.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I know of someone who did a peds residency (the whole 3 years, I think--though he may have just done 2), then a derm residency (minus the transitional year), with a peds focus, at the same instutution where he did his peds residency. I think he had some kind of special arrangment to do this. I think people more typically do a derm residency and then fellowship in peds derm. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's any peds derm fellowships you can do following a peds residency.

The hours should be pretty good, I'd think 40-50/wk, typical office hours, no call. The pay is probably 200k+ (and likely less in academics). But I'm guessing on these. Most frequent cases seen would definitely be rashes (especially the bad cases of eczema, psoriasis, seborrhea, etc that have failed traditional treatments) like baddabing said, but you'd also be seeing a lot of acne, birthmarks, moles, etc.

I'd be interested too in hearing what others have to say about this field. It sounds kinda interesting to me.

 

[mpsheeha]

I appreciate the thoughts. Any input is helpful. I am meeting with the head of derm at my school next week to discuss some options. FRIEDA lists three combined derm/peds residency programs and one only takes applicants every other year.