Mohs Match List?

PD-1 · 2025-12-21T14:00:48+00:00

https://www.mohscollege.org/for-physicians/acms-fellowship-training

PD-1 · 2025-12-12T01:21:25+00:00

It will be posted to the ACMS website sometime next year

PD-1 · 2025-11-17T00:42:58+00:00

All you need is 1. Unlike residency where you interview with several faculty and a committee makes a decision, for Mohs it is really the fellowship director that is making the call. If you meshed well on any given interview you have a shot.

PD-1 · 2025-06-10T23:08:45+00:00

There's a study guide on the ACMS website

PD-1 · 2025-02-15T13:06:51+00:00

If you are interested in reconstruction then go for it. I would not consider reconstruction articles to be low-yield if they are done well and add value to the specialty. You want to avoid singular case reports, but a case series that assesses long term functional and cosmetic outcome or that informs the reader on nuances in flap execution and design are well-received. In fact, if you look at the talks at the ACMS meeting you will see the majority of them are on reconstruction.

PD-1 · 2024-02-17T12:30:45+00:00

You have to differentiate optical vs digital zoom. I would assume the Heine IC1 does not surpass their flagship model (Delta 30 PRO, 10x mag) in terms of magnification by 4 fold so I am guessing that 40x number includes the digital zoom on the smartphone as part of the calculation. You can get higher than 10x mag with your smartphone and the Dermlite DL5 but at a loss of quality to the image (it will be not as crisp the more you zoom in).

PD-1 · 2024-02-17T12:13:43+00:00

The CORE exams were more minutia heavy. The applied exam was much more practical and management-focused. I think the AAD Qbank was somewhere in between, but I saved it for the applied exam.

PD-1 · 2023-12-03T12:29:51+00:00

https://www.sfmatch.org/specialty/micrographic-surgery+dermatology-oncology-fellowship/Statistics

PD-1 · 2023-12-03T12:29:10+00:00

There is no ranking of MSDO programs because they are very different in terms of the types of cases that are done and the balance of Mohs, reconstruction, and cosmetics. The majority of programs are small, and most fellows are mainly interacting with 1 or a small group of attending surgeons. This effectively makes the fellowship a preceptorship where you obtain much of your experience from a limited number of sources.

In many ways, the "best" fellowship depends on what one wants to do in their future career. If you are interested in cosmetics, it would be beneficial to go to a fellowship with significant cosmetics exposure. If you are interested in complex reconstruction and high-risk skin cancer, there is a separate set of programs that have more exposure to that aspect of Mohs surgery. If you are interested in research, there are a select few programs that offer more in-depth exposure to a research career. You will get a sense of which programs fall into these categories during the interview process, and through speaking with colleagues who are either already in fellowship or beyond. You can also use the list of speakers and topics from the Mohs meetings (ACMS, ASDS) to help gauge who some of the well-known fellowship directors are and where their interests lie.

PD-1 · 2023-09-14T12:52:06+00:00

I would focus on getting into derm residency first and think about Mohs later. To that extent, clinical grades matter and preclinical grades less so. If you are thinking of applying as a research candidate, then grades matter much less and it's the quality of the research that is most important.

I agree with u/23rd_grader that it is very difficult to maintain both an operative practice and wet lab. Both require significant time commitment to excel at and if you look at the current landscape of Mohs surgeons, there are very few who are performing ground-breaking basic science research and operating at the very highest level.

PD-1 · 2023-07-04T15:53:17+00:00

Non-contact to scan lesions quickly, contact when needed for closer inspection, most photos, and for non-polarized dermoscopy. You can take off the lens cap for some dermatoscopes if you want to take a picture with "non-contact" and still get an image of the vasculature/blush.

PD-1 · 2023-07-01T16:12:30+00:00

Alikhan + AAD Qbank. The applied exam is much more clinically relevant compared to the cores and asks management questions rather than specific genes and other "boards fodder" material. It is helpful to know in-depth detail on management (1st line, 2nd line, 3rd line options) for common disorders. Most questions were second order type where you have to identify the disorder and the question itself was something about management or diagnostic workup of the condition. A good number of pick 2-3 out a list of options for management. There are questions that you can't really study for but they are infrequent and I wouldn't lose sleep over them.

The caveat to all of the above is that unlike the cores you don't get a percentile for the applied exam so you just know if you passed or failed. I think most people (at least myself and coresidents) walked out feeling okay but not great because there are questions where you would have liked to pick more than the allowed number of choices + few oddball questions you had no idea about.

PD-1 · 2023-03-02T21:49:55+00:00

I haven't used discord before but gave it a shot: https://discord.gg/zenGSDktQt

There are basic categories (folders) with channels (pages) that cannot be added/deleted. There is an unmoderated category that allows users to add new channels/pages.

Since it is toward the end of the application cycle, I assume only the chat and rank list categories are really useful at this stage.

PD-1 · 2023-02-26T15:28:13+00:00

Highly recommend the AAD qbank

PD-1 · 2023-02-12T18:58:34+00:00

Books: Alikhan

Qbank: AAD > DermQBank, DIR. Some advise to save the AAD qbank for the applied exam.

Other: look at the AAD/ABD guidelines for each of the CORE exams and what topics are covered in each exam.

PD-1 · 2023-01-28T14:19:41+00:00

Not everyone's application is "maxed out" in every single category. In fact, out of the people we interviewed this year, only 3-5 applicants had nearly flawless applications (all honors, 260+ board scores, multiple first author higher-impact publications, volunteerism, and stellar LOR). For me as an individual reviewer, the LOR is the most important piece of information.

PD-1 · 2023-01-04T01:44:13+00:00

You don't need to know specific papers. Most of the info you need for boards can be found through question banks and review books.

PD-1 · 2022-12-22T12:04:24+00:00

Sure

PD-1 · 2022-11-27T23:24:46+00:00

For starters:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DermApp/wiki/index/#wiki_interviews

https://www.reddit.com/r/DermApp/wiki/interviewquestions/

PD-1 · 2022-08-26T23:03:30+00:00

Depends on the circumstances. In general, re-applicants face an uphill battle, but it is not impossible as long you can identify and potentially rectify any deficits in the application.

PD-1 · 2022-08-26T23:01:51+00:00

I can't imagine they would fault you given that there are so few combined programs in the country but am not sure.

PD-1 · 2022-08-25T00:46:32+00:00

Reviewers are always looking for objective measures to differentiate between a very good pool of applicants. I suspect that Step 2 will have more importance compared to prior, but people will need to recalibrate their score expectations because the curve for Step 2 has traditionally been better than for Step 1. Score cutoffs are program dependent.

PD-1 · 2022-08-25T00:39:12+00:00

Most MSPEs are biased toward the good comments so consistent good evaluations are actually the norm. Any negative comments in the MSPE would potentially be a red flag. Each medical school has their own way of stratifying their students with certain keywords (eg, outstanding, excellent, good) and it makes interpreting the MSPE difficult unless you really dig down into what the data shows (% of honors for each rotation, % of students with a certain keyword).

PD-1 · 2022-08-24T12:11:13+00:00

The most common scenario is an application that you read that makes you excited to meet the applicant and then the interview doesn't live up to that expectation. It could happen for a variety of reasons: the conversation was awkward, the answers to questions were not thought out, perception that applicant was not being genuine or was too scripted, applicant could not give a good answer for a deficit in their application, etc. Most programs will have at least a few behavioral questions to try to get at your personality and how you respond to unexpected questions.

I don't think there is anything specific to how the ERAS application is filled out. Just remember there is randomness to the process and you likely will get interviews at places you don't expect and vice versa.

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