DERM:394

Summary of the main learning outcomes for students enrolled in the course:

1. To understand the basics of skin anatomy.

2. To be familiar with the language of dermatology by learning the primary and secondary skin lesions and to be able to describe various skin conditions.

3. To enable medical students to recognize the most common skin diseases and to manage them.

4. To be familiar with the diagnostic laboratory tests pertinent to dermatology.

5. To help students to formulate decent differential diagnoses of skin diseases.

6. To gain an over view of the skin manifestations of systemic diseases.

7. To be able to deal appropriately with different emergencies in dermatologic diseases