The status of academically trained dermatology NPs has not been touched on in a while so I wanted to see if there was any update, especially given today's NYT article. I am aware of an academic program that is in the midst of hiring NPs to train them to become dermatology NPs (not DNPs like USF tried to do a few years ago). Does anyone know how common a practice this is? Has anyone had experience with this at an academic center? I realize many private Derm's do this but academics seems like a bigger beast.