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 donโt have enough experience to make such intuitive diagnoses.
Michael Kolodney, who chairs West Virginia Universityโs 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 studyโs findings have been published in โJAMA Dermatology.โ