Dermatology Electives and Selectives

 

Dermatology (IM4 903L-4) for 4 wks

Attendance: Students may not take time off on the start date but must attend check-in and system orientation with Visiting Student Affairs. See the attendance policy for details.

Location: Carilion Clinic Dermatology - Riverside 1

Available: August – June

Duration: 4 weeks, starting any Monday and ending Friday

Number of students per rotation: 1

Prerequisites: N/A

Overview: The Elective consists of dermatology outpatient clinics at Carilion Riverside Complex and consults at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. The student will do the patient’s chart review, history taking, and physical examination. In consultation with the attending, the student will develop a differential diagnosis, plan the diagnostic evaluation and design a management plan for the patient’s skin disease.

The student will become progressively proficient and knowledgeable in the following:

  1. Taking a focused history for skin diseases
  2. Listing the signs and physical findings to look for in general and in certain specific skin diseases
  3. Accurately using the terms for describing the morphology of basic skin lesion
  4. Developing a differential diagnosis based on morphologic diagnosis, and prioritizing the list, based on the history, physical examination, laboratory results and knowledge of the epidemiology of skin diseases
  5. Describing Mohs Micrographic surgery and the workings of a Mohs laboratory.
  6. Discussing the interpretation of skin biopsies
  7. Performing cryotherapy, shave and punch biopsies
  8. Identifying the mechanism of action, dosing, and adverse events of topical therapeutics and phototherapy as well as systemic and biologic drugs used in dermatology
  9. Accurately interpreting KOH prep