Dermatopathology

Catalog description

This four-week clerkship provides students an in-depth specialized knowledge and experience in diagnosing, treating, and researching diseases of the skin. Students will: learn microbiologic aspects of dermatopathology involving primary and secondary infections by bacteria, fungi, or viruses, and how to diagnose skin tumors such as basal-cell carcinoma, melanoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. Appropriate application of specialized stains for recognition of infectious agents is also taught. Experience in entomology is provided by examples of insect bites, including those of mosquitoes, ticks (some of which are vehicles for Lyme Disease), bedbugs, and spiders. Students will be exposed to the entire range of cutaneous expressions of infections by HIV, e.g., bacillary angiomatosis, eosinophilic pustular folliculitis, and Kaposi's sarcoma.