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authors: Plachouri, Kerasia‐Maria; Georgiou, Sophia
title: How well prepared are dermatologists redeployed to COVID‐19 wards?
date: 2020-05-25
journal: Int J Dermatol
DOI: 10.1111/ijd.14978
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a serious challenge for the national health systems of numerous countries, such as Italy or the United States (US). 1 The massive patient influx has led to shortages not only in vital medical supplies but also in medical personnel, resulting in health authorities taking emergency initiatives so as to face the consequences of this public health crisis. 1 Among these initiatives is the recruitment of doctors of specialties other than internal medicine or anesthesiology and, in some cases, even of medical students. 1-2 Such actions, although necessary and evident in critical times, can be a cause of concern for numerous physicians who are suddenly redeployed to COVID-19 wards yet lack even the basic intensive care training. 2 As far as the structure of the dermatologic medical specialist training is concerned, there are certainly differences among the different countries and even among residency programs in the same country: some residency programs include a general medicine common trunk of variable duration, while others are constituted solely of a full-time dermatology training. 3 It is therefore a reasonable concern up to which extent a skin physician 

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Funding source: None. doi: 10.1111/ijd.14978