1. Skins Personal Treatment Plans

2. Why Plans? Once you start treating skin conditions habits die-hard! You do the first thing that comes into your head or have been told or scavenge from the BNF, thereafter you always do the same thing. This may not lead to rational therapy and leaves you stuck when confronted with lesions that do not respond (so re think the diagnosis!).

3. Why Plans? To counter this it is sensible to work out your own treatment plan or guideline plus the addition of tips and wrinkles for when things go awry. Should be based on known pathophysiology.

4. Why Plans? - Summary Plethora of preparations available Knowing what to next Logical progression Optimising therapy Tips and wrinkles

5. What Plans? Infections / infestations Acne vulgaris Acne rosacea Dermatophytoses Lice Scabies Seborrhoeic dermatitis Bacterial infections Warts

6. What Plans? Sensitivities Eczema Ages, patterns Tips and wrinkles Triggers

7. What Plans? Metabolic / errors of metabolism Psoriasis Systemic disease Diabetes GIT disease Erythema multiforme Erythema nodosum

8. What Plans? Skin cancers Pre-malignant lesions BCC Melanomas Squamous The scalp Allopecia

9. Homework Skin Cancers Features Diagnosis Management Prevention? Health education