LEARNING SKILLS of the terminologies and definitions of dermoscopic and confocal criteria in the field of non-invasive diagnosis in dermatology.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: To acquire the ability and knowledge about the diagnosis of common benign and malignant neoplastic diseases of the skin.
AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT: acquire adequate critical processing skills among different types of neoplastic skin diseases to be able to recognize main benign and malignant neoplastic skin diseases and to describe them appropriately

COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS:acquire adeguate terminology in non invasive diagnosis in dermatology is essential to discuss and to interact within the scientific community

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

The program aims to let students know about techiques, instruments and semiotics of dermoscopy and reflectance confocal microscopy to diagnose benign melanocytic and non-melanocytic skin tumors and malignant melanocytic and non-melanocytic skin tumors.

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

Dermoscopy: Techique and Instruments
Dermoscopic diagnosis of benign melanocytic skin tumors: Nevi
Dermoscopic diagnosis of melanoma
Dermoscopic diagnosis of benign non-melanocytic skin tumors
Dermoscopic diagnosis of malignant non-melanocytic skin tumors: Basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma
Reflectance Confocal Microscopy:Techique and Instruments
Confocal diagnosis of nevi, melanoma and benign and malignant non-melanocytic lesions

Frontal lessons with interactive modality

Handout on request

Knowledge acquisition will be verified through a written exam (12 questions with 4 multiple choice answers- each counting 1 point. The duration of the written test is 30 minutes. Passing the test is given according to the number of correct answers, and is expressed as approved or non approved. The minimum score for the approvation corresponds to a seven correct answers.

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