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DERM5001: Essential Dermatology
2025 unit information
Essential Dermatology will enable students to diagnose the most common cutaneous presentations, formulate an appropiate differential diagnosis, and complete a management plan. In this unit, you will study the common skin diseases and comprehensively review clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, impact on quality of life, and management. The unit will also cover the clinicopathological correlation and aetiology and pathogenesis of skin disease, and will equip students to interpret histology reports. Diseases are organised by body region and clinical characteristics and include: inflammatory diseases (acne, psoriasis, eczema); autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases (lupus, morphea, pustulosis); cutaneous drug reactions; infections; and cancer. The use of new technologies in diagnosis and treatment is also discussed.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Anaesthesia PGCW |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Diagnose and manage common skin conditions
- LO2. Formulate a differential diagnosis and perform a biopsy when needed and request appropriate investigations
- LO3. Diagnose, triage, and describe treatment options for skin cancers and their precursors
- LO4. Recognise and initiate the management of life-threatening skin conditions
- LO5. Recognise the multiple manifestations of systemic diseases on the skin
- LO6. Confidently prescribe topical and systemic treatments, from emollients and steroids to immunosuppressants, and understand the benefits and potential side effects of these treatments
- LO7. Recognise the psychosocial impact of skin disease.
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Semester 1 2024
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Distance education/intensive on campus | Western Clinical School, Westmead |
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Semester 1 2025
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Distance education/intensive on campus | Western Clinical School, Westmead |
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