Image-based assessment in undergraduate dermatology curriculum: A step toward competency-based medical education.

Background: Dermatology being a visual branch, there is a need to add a visual element in learning and assessment of dermatology. This study compares the utility of image-based assessment (IBA) as a new tool compared to routinely used semi-structured viva (SSV) in dermatology formative assessment at undergraduate level.

Methods: Comparison was made between batches of students in year 2018 who underwent clinical posting term ending assessment by IBA with the retrospective cohort of batch of students in year 2015 who underwent assessment by SSV.

Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reactions in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in India: An Intensive Monitoring Study.

Background: The epidemiological data based on intensive monitoring studies are limited for the cutaneous adverse drug reactions (CADRs) in terms of incidence. Most of earlier Indian studies focused only on types and causative drugs of CADRs.

Aim: The aim of this study is to analyze the CADRs with reference to the incidence, its subgroup analysis, causative drugs, and other clinical characteristics in Indian population.

Skin, a mirror reflecting diabetes mellitus: A longitudinal study in a tertiary care hospital in Gujarat.

Context: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most common of the endocrine disorders. Mucocutaneous manifestations of diabetes mellitus are many and vary from trivial to life-threatening. Sometimes, mucocutaneous disorders may herald the onset of diabetes.