LEARNING SKILLS of the terminologies and definitions of cutaneous lesions in the field of dermatology.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:to acquire basic knowledge about the prevention of common dermatologic infection diseases and
neoplastic diseases
To understand the underlying pathogenesis diseases
AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT acquire adequate critical processing skills among different forms of skin diseases for their prevention
COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS: acquiring adeguate terminology in dermatology is essential to interface within health care and scientific community

For a satisfactory learning of the contents of this course it is necessary that the student has acquired the basic knowledge of anatomy and clinical pathology

The program aims to let students know about prevention of main cutaneous infections and infestations and sexually transmitted diseases. To acquire, in addition knowledge about prevention of melanoma and neoplastic cutaneous diseases.

Power point presentations related to the teaching units will be made available to the stdents on the computer platforms moodle@units and Microsoft Teams

The function and structure of the skin
Cutaneous lesions and definitions
Dermatologic viral infections
Dermatologic bacterial infections
Dermatologic fungal infections
Parasitic diseases : scabies- pediculosis
Sexually transmitted diseases
Neoplastic Diseases: Melanoma – Basal cell carcinoma –squamous cell carcinoma

Frontal lessons with interactive modality

Handout on request

Knowledge acquisition will be verified throught a written exam ( 30 questions with 4 multiple choice answers -each counting 1 point). The duration of the written test is 60 minutes. The grade is given according to the number of correct answers, is expressed in thirtieths and the minimum score for passing it is 18/30.

This teaching explores topics closely related to one or more of the goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development