Rotation Directors: Bobbie Edwards, M.D. (Service 1)
Robert Singer, M.D. (Service 2)
Duration: One month
Maximum number of students per four-week period: One
Evaluation: Oral and written
Candidates: Senior students of approved allopathic and osteopathic medical schools.
Description:
The general purpose for the clinical clerkship in dermatology is for the students to gain knowledge about the diagnosis and treatment of diseases that primarily affect the skin and the recognition of skin changes that reflect multisystem disease. Students should also gain applicable experience including effectively communicating with patients about understanding dermatology problems. Students may gain knowledge and experience in the following:
- Simple excision
- Punch biopsy
- Shave biopsy
- Wedge biopsy
- Laser surgery
- Cryosurgery
- Electrocautery
- Suturing (subcutaneous sutures, cutaneous sutures, learning names and uses of sutures, ligating vessels)
- I & D cysts
- Mohs surgery
- Gain knowledge of method of Mohs surgery.
- Gain knowledge of indications for Mohs surgery.
- Identification and treatment of the following malignancies:
- Basal Cell Carcinoma including subtypes
- Squamous Cell Carcinoma including subtypes
- Melanoma, including subtypes, major clinical categories, prognostic and therapeutic guidelines
- Paget’s disease
- Cutaneous lymphoma
- Kaposi’s sarcoma
- Metastases to the skin
- Identification and treatment of the following premalignant conditions:
- Squamous cell carcinoma in situ (Bowen’s disease)
- Actinic keratosis
- Disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis
- Leukoplakia
- Keratoacanthoma
- Erythroplakia
- Premelanoma, including lentigo maligna, giant congenital nevus, dysplastic nevus syndrome
Bibliography:
- Clinical Pediatric Dermatology, 2nd Edition, Sidney Hurwitz, M.D.
- Skin Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, 2nd Edition, Thomas Habif, et al
- These and other dermatology references are available on-site
