Institute of Pathology, Medical Faculty University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

DIAGNOSTIC DERMATOPATHOLOGY COURSE

The course is designed for practising pathologists/trainees in pathology and practising dermatologists/trainee dermatologists with a special interest in Dermatopathology. Some knowledge of Dermatopathology is essential. Although the course covers most topics fairly thoroughly, this is not a basic course for beginners. Please be aware that this course is mostly independent study and that you are absolutely not expected to view the whole collection. 

The Course was conceived in 1984 by the original course organisers, Professor Nicholas Wright, Director and Professor of Histopathology at the RPMS, and Dr Robin Russell-Jones, Consultant Dermatologist and Senior Lecturer at the RPMS. In 1994  Dr Russell-Jones became Director of the Skin Tumour Unit at St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, and Professor Wright became Dean of the RPMS and Vice Chancellor of Imperial College. It was then decided to reorganise the course, update the text, replace many of the sections, which had been damaged or faded by a decade of enthusiastic usage. The latter task has been undertaken with considerable dedication by the London Diagnostic Dermatopathology  Courses team : Dr Eduardo Calonje, Director of Dermatopathology at the Institute of Dermatology, Dr Maged Daruish , and Dr Laszlo Fonyad , who annually revise and include new cases to this unique and superb 1800 slide collection.

Key lecturer is Eduardo Calonje MD DipRCPath and staff lecturers Prof Bostjan Luzar MD Phd , Dr Jose Cardoso MD , Dr Zlatko Marusic MD PhD, Dr Eglantine Lebas MD DipRCPath, Dr Maged Daruish MD MBBCh, MSc and Dr Thibaut Kerverrac. The Course lasts for five days. There is a limit to what we can cover in a week-long course, so we have chosen 15 main topics and have devoted one nominal one hour to one and a half hour sessions to each of them: the topics are chosen so as to cover most, if not all, common groups of dermatopathological patterns. Note that it is not intended that the lecture will deal exhaustively with every lesion, but should serve as a general survey of the histopathological approach to diagnosis within the topic field.

Several black boxes full of sections are available for all course participants. These sets are of considerable value, and have taken a great deal of time and effort to collect. They are on a loan basis for the period of the course duration.To help you appreciate the sections, which as far as possible have been arranged to demonstrate a diagnostic series. All lectures are provided in pdf format  in a usb stick yours to keep. We hope that in due course this might prove a valuable document for your future use.

It is also possible that you might not have sufficient time to view all the sections in the time allocated during the day; to facilitate extra time, the whole collection has been digitalized by Dr Laszlo Fonyad and is available to access for 2  months from the end of the course.

CPD points 45

If you have questions, please email info at londondiagnosticdermatopathology dot com.