Welcome to Dermatopathology - Dermatology

Goals and Objectives of Dermatopathology
First-Year Residents
1. Learn a general approach to histopathologic diagnosis.
DERMATOPATHOLOGY
2. Be able to identify common cutaneous neoplasms (i.e. seborrheic keratosis,
malanocytic nevus, etc.) and common inflammatory patterns (i.e. spongiotic dermatitis,
interface dermatitis, etc.) with reasonable reliability.
3. Understand basic principles of gross pathology: how specimens are “cut in” and how
that affects the practice of pathology.
4. Understand fundamentals of clinicopathologic correlation.
5. Be able to rationally explain the fundamental nature of disease processes (i.e. cysts,
malformations, hamartomas, hyperplasias, benign and malignant neoplasms, etc).
6. For UC trainees, review the UCSF dermatology resident slide set of diagnoses based
on your year of training, and read on those as well.
Readings
Skin Pathology, David Weedon; contributor, Geoffrey Strutton. 2nd ed. London; New York:
Churchill Livingstone, 2002
Also see the Differential Diagnosis I through IV by A. Bernard Ackerman, available in our
library.
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