UtahDERM (Dermatology Education Resources & Modules) is a collaborative effort between the University of Utah’s Department of Dermatology, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, and Oregon Health & Science University to produce a robust open educational platform for the discipline of Dermatology.
The project began as an effort to digitize a collection of 14,000 Kodachrome slides depicting clinical presentations of dermatological conditions taken by Leonard Swinyer, MD. The project quickly morphed into developing a custom-made platform to explore a selection of the images using diagnoses, clinical features, and textbook references. The resulting Slide Viewer is the culmination of three years of development by the Eccles Library and the Faculty and Residents of the Department of Dermatology.
UtahDERM also contains the Core Dermatology Diagnoses, a quick reference tool for medical students and general health practitioners to learn the essentials of common dermatological conditions. Each article is written by a rotating medical student in the Department of Dermatology and peer-reviewed by Dermatology Faculty.
Credits
Project Leads:
Julia Curtis, MD
Bryan E. Hull, MEd
Library Developers:
Stephen Mossbarger
Peter Strohmeyer
Slide Scanning:
Carmin I. Smoot, MLIS
Collection Support:
Sy Maestas
UtahDERM Editor-in-Chief:
Julia Curtis, MD
Senior Resident Reviewer:
Shreya Sreekantaswamy, MD
Grace Brummer, MD
Faculty Editors:
Spencer Bertoch, MD
Sarah Cipriano, MD, MPH, MS,
Jennie Clarke, MD
Rosemary deShazo, MD
Jessica Donigan, MD
Kristina Callis Duffin, MD, MS
Mark Eliason, MD
Alice Frigerio, MD, PhD
Gerald Gleich, MD
Doug Grossman, MD, PhD
Christopher Hansen, MD
Christopher Hull, MD
Luke Johnson, MD
Kristin Leiferman, MD
Bethany Lewis, MD, MPH
Lauren Madigan, MD
Eric Millican, MD
Mike Milliken, MD
Powell Perng, MD
Marta Petersen, MD
Doug Powell, MD
Megan Prouty, MD
Tim Schmidt, MD, PhD
Aaron Secrest, MD, PhD, MBA
David Smart, MD
Richard Sontheimer, MD
Erika Summers, MD
Adam Tinklepaugh, MD
Sheryll Vanderhooft, MD
Resident Reviewers:
Grace Brummer, MD
Kim Blain, MD
Chloe Ekelem, MD, MPH
Slide Metadata and Description:
Doug Grossman, MD
Jack Abbott, MD
Joshua Clark, MD
Julia Curtis, MD
Mike Milliken, MD
Jason Mathis, MD
Garrett Coman, MD
Bethany Lewis, MD
Jennie Clarke, MD
Luke Johnson, MD
C. David Hansen, MD
Chloe Ekelem, MD
Special Thank You:
Garrett Coman, MD for the inspiration for the Slide Viewer; and to the Core Educators Team of the Dermatology Department.
Nancy Lombardo, MLS for co-leading the project from its infancy and through the development phase.
