Last spring, I noticed an unusual mark on my torso that hadn’t been there before. It had a circular shape to it and was a bit darker than the rest of my skin. I showed it to my primary care physician ...

Yet this was The Boards. This was the exam that dermatology residents around the country spend 3 years obsessing about. From my first day of residency, I heard those noxious, ever-present words: ...

Two months and a few dozen gray hairs later, I opened up a thin envelope to learn that I had indeed passed the 2001 Boards exam, along with the rest of my residency class. In the meantime, I'm not ...