If you’re like many dermatologists, you work in a group practice setting — but that doesn’t mean that you see much of, or any of, your colleagues during a typical (very busy) day.In fact, I remember not long ago when I had interviewed two doctors who worked in the same practice for the same article. I’d interviewed them at separate times, so they were unaware of what each had said. After the article was published, one of the doctors explained how interested he had been to read his colleague’s opinion in the article. His comment was, “I didn’t even know he felt that way. I never have the opportunity to speak with him about this.” But you work in the same office? No matter, the doctor explained, sometimes days or even a week would pass before he saw his colleague. Just as this doctor found it difficult to connect with his colleagues, you may also not get the opportunities you’d like to tap into your colleagues thoughts and expertise.Patient procedures and office functions: Finding a Better way to do them  To help you “connect” with colleagues, we are offering a new column that debuts in this issue. Titled “Clinical Tips”, this column features a collection of sage advice on how to better perform clinical procedures, explain a disease or technical term to patients, or more efficiently complete an office function.Section Editor, Benjamin Barankin, M.D., who also heads up Skin & Aging’s monthly column “Perspectives”, created the new “Clinical Tips” column. Please turn to page 39 to view this new column and gain insight from colleagues.If you would like to contribute to this column, please submit a brief tip (approximately 100 to 250 words) to Dr. Benjamin Barankin at: benbarankin@gmail.com. Also, if you have an image to accompany your tip, you can send that as a jpg file. Typically, files at least as large as 1 MB will reproduce well in the journal. We will pay a $25 honorarium for published tips. We hope that you gain useful insight from this new column. Larisa HubbsExecutive Editorlhubbs@hmpcommunications.com