Educational objectives

• Generic skills
• Carry out an accurate history and examination
• Prioritise clinical problems
• Develop communication skills
• Management of common acute emergencies
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Principles of drug useage, includmg pain relief
• Preoperative and early postoperative assessment
• Team working and basic medical ethics
• Principles of audit, self-assessment, time management
• Basic health management and health economics
• The value of computing and IT
• Supervision of junior doctors and medical students
• Specific skills
• Take a dermatological history, including occupational and drug history,previous treatments and social impact
• Competence in evaluating and recording physical signs in skin, hair, nails and mucosa
• Understand dermatological nomenclature in order to convey an accurate description
• Understand presentation, natural history, assessment and treatment in
• psoriasis
• eczemas
• leg ulcers
• acne and rosacea
• urticarias
• benign tumours
• malignancy
• warts
• infections and fungal disorders
• connective tissue disorders
• acute disorders
• Appreciate the broad scope of dermatology and the relationship between dermatology and general medicine
• Principles and practicalities of treatment including
• dosage and strength of topical therapy
• phototherapy
• immunosuppression
• dressings
• nursing procedures
• patient/parent education
• Specialised areas eg: photosensitivity, phototherapy, contact allergy, patch testing, paediatric dermatology, surgery, cryotherapy, mycology, specimen collection
• Theory and practice of skin biopsy techniques, application and complications
• Relationships with radiotherapy, plastic surgery and pathology
• Understand which disorders require referral

Learning opportunities

• Leg ulcer clinic (vascular nurse)
• GUM clinic
• Nurse led atopic eczema clinic
• Nurse led psoriasis clinic
• British Association of Dermatologists website
  

Updated by BC on 20/3/08