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Common skin lesions
Online continuing medical education designed for health professionals and students.
Learning objectives will be listed for each topic.
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
