A dermatologist may distinguish a mole from a tumor based on a glance, the way a cook can tell parsley from cilantro by sniffing it. But medical students donโ€™t have enough experience to make such intuitive diagnoses.

Michael Kolodney, who chairs West Virginia Universityโ€™s Department of Dermatology, has developed a smartphone app to cultivate that intuition in medical students sooner. An initial study suggests that the app, called Skinder, may improve how accurately medical students diagnose melanomas. The studyโ€™s findings have been published in โ€œJAMA Dermatology.โ€

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