What you will do:

You will work directly with a physician who is known to be a gifted educator and mentor. The preceptor holds faculty appointments at McGovern Medical School at UT Health (Associate Clinical Professor).

Through the years, the physician has been actively involved in the education of residents from Baylor, UT Houston, UTMB, and MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Your mornings will be spent reviewing slides. You will have a microscope and two standard dermatopathology textbooks to use. In the first week, your focus will be on the normal histology of the skin and developing skills and confidence in naming and identifying the structures of the skin, including the layers that make up the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis, the different cell types, and skin appendages. In the following weeks, you will gain experience in differentiating normal from abnormal, developing differential diagnoses, and interpreting slides in the context of the patient's clinical presentation.

In the afternoon, you will participate in dermatopathology sign out with the attending and observing the grossing of specimens. In the office, you may have a chance to interact with other students, residents, and fellows. You may also have the opportunity to deliver talks and teach other team members.

This physician is very much involved in research. So, for the motivated IMG, there may be opportunities to publish case reports or articles. The physician has over 180 publications on record at PubMed.