Metamorphosis Of A Dermatologist To A Paediatric Dermatologist : Ten Essential Ingredients

Children are not small adults.
Metamorphosis of pediatric dermatologists from general dermatologists requires a few extra ingredients to flavor and nourish the transition.
Below are the important ingredients that are helpful in accelerating the process.
1. Examine at least 1000 normal neonates so that you can appreciate the transient skin lesions that appear when the babies travel from the wet pool to dry land.
2. Able to travel freely on the Blaschko lines.
3. Learn to walk freely on ectoderm and jump swiftly to mesoderm and endoderm if required.
4. Facing genodermatoses, always walk back to the basics: genotype-phenotype correlation.
5. Be skilled in climbing the family trees.
6. Able to link those diseases with different phenotypes back to the common pathways
7. Always educate and empower the patients and all the relevant caregivers.