Common skin lesions

Online continuing medical education designed for health professionals and students.

Learning objectives will be listed for each topic.

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Acknowledgements 

Originally developed for the University of Auckland Goodfellow Unit in 2007. The course and several interactive quizzes are available on CD – from the Goodfellow Unit.

Author: Hon A/Prof Amanda Oakley, Dermatologist, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2008.  

Images have been sourced from the following:

• Hon Assoc Prof Amanda Oakley
• The Department of Dermatology, Waikato Hospital
• MoleMap New Zealand (with permission)

Course contents

• Ageing skin
• Epidemiology of non-melanoma skin cancer
• Squamous cell carcinoma
• Basal cell carcinoma
• Benign melanocytic lesions
• Melanoma
• Nonmelanocytic congenital naevi
• Benign keratinocytic and adnexal lesions
• Dermal and subcutaneous tumours
• Introduction to skin surgery
• Processing skin biopsies
• Surgical procedures
• Non-surgical physical treatments
• Topical treatment of photodamage