Advanced Medical Dermatology
DE 511M.J
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Description
The goal of this course is to teach students how to evaluate and manage patients with complex medical dermatologic illness. The course is designed to build on foundations of dermatology as learned in the introductory dermatology DE501M.J course or an equivalent course at another institution. Students will choose to rotate among ambulatory dermatology subspecialty clinics. Students can work at any of the four major hospitals on this rotaion. However, we recommend rotating at no more than two including Brigham and Women's Hospital. Available clinics focus on skin and related musculocutaneous disorders, bullous disease, angiogenesis and wound healing, graft versus host disease, cutaneous oncology (including melanoma and merkel cell carcinoma), infectious disease, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. The students can rotate on the inpatient service if that interests them with the inpatient dermatology consultation service at BWH. Under the supervision of faculty members of the Department of Dermatology, students will actively participate as clinical clerks in the diagnosis and therapy of patients with dermatologic problems at the clinics listed above. Competency in performing several of the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures will be attained by the students. Attending physicians will provide ongoing daily feedback about the student's performance. Students will also participate in clinical-pathological conferences, consultation and departmental rounds, and weekly diagnostic conferences.
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