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Current Editors: Fareen Momin and Jane Onyemachi

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Past Editors: Andrea Francis, Renat Ahatov, Michael Phan, Elise Weisert, Michael Ryan, Keith Wagner, Tim Allen, Kristyna Gleghorn, Dung Mac, Alex Acosta, William Tausend, Sheila Jalalat, Rebecca Philips, Chelsea Altinger, Lindsey Hunter, Alison Wiesenthal, Leslie Scroggins, Mara Dacso, Ashley Group, Fadi Constantine, Emily Fridlington, Joslyn Witherspoon, Tasneem Poonawalla.

Monday, September 17, 2012

No Need to Attend Class!

Original dermatology educational research presented by Daniel Eisen from the University of California Davis at the September 2012 meeting of the Dermatology Teachers Exchange Group in Chicago yielded surprising results. Dr. Eisen and his co-authors Clayton Schupp, Lynda Ledo, and April Armstrong presented their abstract, “Does Class Attendance Matter? Study on Impact of Medical Student Class Attendance and Learning Preferences on Academic Performance in Dermatology” and reported that medical students attending an introductory dermatology course did no better on their final exam than students who did not attend class. Students who preferred watching the lectures online received significantly higher exam scores than those attending class.