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|Articles|January 23, 2009
CCE Dermatology: Wake Forest by the numbers
The numbers behind Wake Forest's Department of Dermatology
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The following data were evaluated to determine Wake Forest University’s standing as a Clinical Center of Excellence for dermatology:
1986 -- Department founded
100 -- Number of research protocols engaged in annually
7 -- Faculty
33,000 -- Outpatient visits
950 -- Patients seen annually by the surgery and cutaneous oncology unit
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