Dermatology 2012
Major update in 2012: Please register your interest for 2013
This course is designed to improve your understanding of diseases and increase your confidence and competence in treating bald, itchy, crusty or smelly dogs and cats.
Tutors
The tutors for this program are Ralf Mueller and Sonya Bettenay.
Key benefits
- use a more effective approach to diagnostic work-ups in all major categories of skin conditions
- gain skills in the ongoing management of the sometimes impossible chronic skin cases
- improve your fundamental comprehension of the pathophysiology of major disease groups
- gain a better understanding of topical and systemic medications and treatment regimes including dose rates, precautions and tips on usage, and knowledge about new and not widely known drugs
- improve your understanding of the factors that influence normal growth and repair of the skin, along with varied infectious agents and special immunological responses of the skin
Modules
- History & Physical Examination
- The Approach to the Pruritic Patient I
- The Approach to the Pruritic Patient II
- The Approach to the Patient with Papules, Pustules & Crusts – Bacterial Pyoderma & Demodicosis
- The Approach to the Patient with Papules, Pustules & Crusts II – Dermatophytosis
- The Approach to the Patient with Fistulae &/or Nodules – Cutaneous Neoplasias, Deep Bacterial Infections & Mycoses
- The Approach to the Patient with Scaling/Keratinisation Defects & Selected Ectoparasites
- The Approach to the Alopecic Patient &/or the Patient with Systemic Signs
- Immune-mediated Skin Disease
- The Approach to the Patient with Otitis Externa
Enquiries
Please contact us by email: cve.disted@sydney.edu.au.