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What is a Dermatologist?
A dermatologist is a physician who specializes in skin care. This doctor receives extensive training in treating skin problems and helping keep skin healthy. With this extensive training, experience, and passion, a dermatologist helps keep skin, hair, and nails healthy, and healthy-looking, throughout your lifetime.
Your Dermatologist's Training
After earning a medical degree and completing an internship, a dermatologist receives three more years of specialty training to become an expert who is dedicated to skin, hair, and nails. Many dermatologists have general practices and see patients with all types of skin concerns. Some dermatologists gain additional training and expertise in specific areas of dermatology, such as pediatrics, surgery, or cosmetics, and go on to have practices specializing in these areas.
What does Board-Certified mean?
When a dermatologist is board-certified, it means that the dermatologist has:
- Completed a three-year residency in dermatology;
- Passed a rigorous two-part test administered by the American Board of Dermatology.
Most members of the American Academy of Dermatology are board-certified in dermatology.
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