Military medicine/Dermatology

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Military Dermatology

Military clinicians practicing medicine remote, austere, disaster, or third world locations must have specialized knowledge on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat skin conditions not commonly seen in civilian medical practice.

This course will provide the skilled medical clinician with dermatological pathologies related to military expeditionary operations. It is intended as a review of dermatological topics covered elsewhere in the students medical training and as an introduction to diseases / conditions of military significance that the student may not have been previously exposed.

This course contains twenty modules:

Module 1. Overview of military dermatology and principles of diagnosis

Module 2. Cold injuries

Module 3. Heat, humidity, and sun related injuries

Module 4. Immersion foot

Module 5. Dermatology related to chemical, biological, nuclear events

Module 6. Allergic contact dermatitis

Module 7. Cutaneous trauma

Module 8. Arthropod and animal bites

Module 9. Arthropod infestations as a vector of disease

Module 10. Viral hemorrhagic fevers

Module 11. Rickettsial diseases

Module 12. Tropical parasitic infections

Module 13. Bacterial skin diseases

Module 14. Leprosy

Module 15. Cutaneous tuberculosis

Module 16. Atypical mycobacterial diseases

Module 17. Superficial fungal diseases

Module 18. Deep fungal diseases

Module 19. Sexually transmitted infections

Module 20. Common skin diseases seen in military practice

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