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from other countries is simply to tell them who we are and what we do. The spirit of this book is therefore in keeping with the motto of the EADV congress, “building bridges” - bridges between dermatologists in European countries and beyond, bridges that make dermatology stronger the world over, in the interest of our patients. This book also seeks to build bridges between Dutch dermatologists. It has, too, another meaning for ourselves. Everything is constantly changing, and so is dermatology. This introductory chapter is a testimony to these changes. As knowledge increases and changes, so the way we practice and teach our profession changes. Such change - the connecting thread of this introduction - can be taken to be improvement. But it is a thorough analysis of these changes, something that the authors have not fully attempted here, which in the end leads to increased understanding. It is only with this increased understanding, that we can rightfully speak of improvement, which is our ultimate goal. 24 Figure 1: Number of theses in the Netherlands between 1800 and 2014, regarding the 5 most common research domains. Each bar represents the number of theses about the research domain in the indicated period, depicted as percentage of the total number of theses in that same period. BWEADVSMGFINCORR:Opmaak 1 21-07-2014 17:39 Pagina 24