ELECT EDERM - Dermatology

Overview of Elective:

The elective is designed for the medical student interested in pursuing dermatology residency training. During this elective students will gain knowledge of ambulatory outpatient aspect of dermatology by working closely with a community dermatologist to enhance clinical skills in dermatological disease, including diagnosis, examination, and management of dermatology patients.

Goals and Objectives:
The student will gain more in depth knowledge on the management of patients with a variety of skin conditions.

• Correctly perform comprehensive skin examinations and correlate their findings to pathologic conditions in an outpatient setting
  • The student will participate daily outpatient clinic at Willis Knighton and examine patients daily, reporting to the supervising dermatologist.
  • The student will understand normal and abnormal dermatologic findings
• Understand the basic steps of common dermatologic outpatient procedures

The student will demonstrate professionalism and gain understanding of basic aspects of a dermatology practice.

• Participate in all daily clinic with the community dermatologist at Willis Knighton, including workups of patients during clinic.  
• Participate in outpatient procedures in adult and pediatric patients.

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