Is a Dermatologist Qualified to Do Histopathology?

  Dermatology training is pretty much limited to dermatopathology. Sure there are some practicing dermatologists out there that trained in both dermatology and pathology. I ,among them, but that is unusual. Even then, I do not feel the dermatologist is qualified to perform pathology, unless they have been routinely doing so. Though I completed an anatomic pathology residency, at this point I would not trust myself to read my brother's gastric biopsy. On the other hand,... more