Dermatology and specialty rotations:COVID‐19 may reemphasize the importance of internal medicine

COVID-19: The experience from Iran

“…This outbreak paves the way and even speeds up the reintegration of dermatology in health care. 115 Dermatologists will collaborate across all kinds of borders. 116 Ongoing COVID-19 clinical trials on interventions and vaccines may offer new hope and new challenges for dermatologists.…”

Cutaneous manifestation of COVID‐19 reporting from Middle‐Eastern countries: A point of view!

“…Moreover, nondermatologists may generically describe skin lesions of the patients under their care as a skin "rash" that may not warrant dermatology consultation, particularly if asymptomatic or when afflicting a critical case. There is a general "misconception" about dermatologists being rather cosmetologists than competent physicians serving a nonacute specialty 14 that may result in underestimating the dermatologists' wakeup call reports at a situation where how to manage a patient with respiratory failure is more important. Subsequently, experts have stressed the important role of dermatologists as "dermatology hospitalists" to assist in the rebirth of the liaison between dermatology and general internal medicine and to marry them up in practice 15 .…”

“…13 Moreover, nondermatologists may generically describe skin lesions of the patients under their care as a skin "rash" that may not warrant dermatology consultation, particularly if asymptomatic or when afflicting a critical case. There is a general "misconception" about dermatologists being rather cosmetologists than competent physicians serving a nonacute specialty 14 Ayman Abdelmaksoud 1 *, MSc Hadir Shakshouk 2,3 , MSc Mohamad Goldust 4,5,6 , MD…”