Dermatology in Rural Settings

Robert T. Brodell, MDTenured Professor and ChairDepartment of DermatologyUniversity of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MississippiUSAInstructorUniversity of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryRochester, New YorkUSA Adam C. Byrd, MDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of DermatologyUniversity of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MississippiUSA Cindy Firkins Smith Vice PresidentRural Health, CentraCare. Adjunct Professor of Dermatology,University of MinnesotaWillmar, MinnesotaUSA Vinayak K. Nahar, MD, PhD, MSAssociate ProfessorDepartment of DermatologyUniversity of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, Mississippi USA

1. Rural Dermatology: Statistical Measures and Epidemiology.- 2. A Comparison of rural and urban dermatology.- 3. Making a Difference: Assessment of the Economic Viability and Impact of Rural Practice.- 4. Government and private efforts to incentivize rural practice.- 5. The Practice of Austere (resource-limited) Dermatology.- 6. Rural Dermatology Residency Slots: Priming the Pump.- 7. Training Medical Students in a Rural Dermatology Clinic.- 8. Political Action in Rural Dermatology.- 9. Academic Rural Dermatology Offices.- 10. Private Practice Rural Dermatology Offices.- 11. Advanced Practice Providers Role in Rural Dermatology.- 12. Dermatology on American Indian and Alaska Native Reservations.-13. Project ECHO: improving rural dermatology through digital primary care education.- 14. Delivering "store and forward" teledermatology to rural primary care practices: an efficient approach to provision of rural skin care.- 15. Overcoming Barriers to Implementation of Teledermatology in Rural America.- 16. Worldwide Rural Dermatology Health Services Research.- 17. Rural dermatology private practice: a life worth living.- 18. Attracting dermatologists to rural America.- 19. Free Rural Clinics: City Folk Making a Difference in Rural America.