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Would you consider a nurse practitioner at a dermatologist office to be an expert on melanoma?
5 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Broadly : If the np has the training and experience in doing skin exams to assess for melanoma (abcd), then he or she may be considered a np expert in the local community. But if you're talking about the np being an expert in mohs micrographic surgery, you've found yourself one lucky dermatologist.
Answered 1/19/2017
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Who is an Expert? : In my experience expertise comes with experience and not with a degree. I am a much wiser and smarter physician today than i was ten years ago. If the arnp is working in a dermatology office they are likely to have experience and thus expertise.
Answered 6/29/2013
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