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Teaching

Current undergraduate Dermatology teaching material on the Web includes:

• There is some good basic teaching material from Hong Kong.
• A few disorders are covered at the Erlangen site
• another electronic textbook of dermatology published by the Internet Dermatology Society is pretty good.
• The Loyola university material has a nice atlas and a levely step-by-step guide to doing Mohs surgery.

Online Journals

• Archives of Dermatology (abstracts only of the last year's articles; you have to register as a member online)
• The Journal of Investigative Dermatology :information about the journal and how to submit papers, contents, and 'in this issue section' .
• The Journal of Dermatological Treatment: contents only.
• Acta Dermatovenereologica: contents only
• Dermatology Nursing: abstracts and contents
• The Skin Therapy letter: some full articles from this very practical publication.
• Blackwell's site includes information about their Dermatology journals including the British Journal of Dermatology, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, International Journal of Dermatology, Australasian Journal of Dermatology and Paediatric Dermatology
• The European Journal of Dermatology has summaries of its articles and some full-text articles available.
• The Cochrane Skin Group focusses on evidence-based dermatology. It has the remit of preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare for skin conditions. It has many systematic reviews on its website and is a valuable resource for evidence-based dermatology.

Medline literature searching on the Internet

Powerful, fast automated searching of vast sources of the medical literature, providing references and full abstracts.

Medline literature searching is available online and free-of-charge from the National Library of Medicine in the USA.

CliniWeb is not a medical literature database. It is a tool for searching for medical information published on the Internet.

Many Universities provide such online searching facilities within the organisation.

Some large Dermatology Sites

• The Internet Dermatology Society is an ambitious project based in Connecticut: their 'global dermatology grand rounds' are a few illustrated case reports they are writing a searchable electronic textbook of dermatology and use the Internet for teledermatology referral of difficult cases.  They have a summary of dermatological mailing lists : discussion groups for dermatologists. their alaskan community health aid manual : advice for dermatological emergencies in remote areas.
• The Dermatologists in Davis California have an interesting site including: The Dermatology Online Journal (mainly Internet issues in Dermatology) proceedings of their online discussion groups about dermatological treatments in which American dermatologists give their opinions by e-mail about treatment of common diseases. The Dermatology Dept. at the University of Erlangen (Germany) has a large site with a searchable atlas of dermatology photographs (the images can be slow to download), a few illustrated case reports (in German) and some student lectures (not many, but mostly they are in English).

Subspecialties

Skin malignancies

• The NIH has published its consensus development conference statement on 'Diagnosis and treatment of early melanoma.' (conference held January 1992.)
• Oncolink (University of Pennsylvania) has a remarkably thorough section on dermatological malignancies
• The National Cancer Institute has put a review of pruritus in malignant disease online.
• the melanoma research project from Germany: information about melanoma and recent developments in treatment. I found it very slow to download

Dermatopathology

• An introductory course in dermatopathology (Rochester, USA).

Photodermatology

• Photobiology Online is a joint exercise by the European and American societies for photobiology. It has a list of Internet photobiology links, and summary of what is new in photobiology.
• The NIH has published its consensus development conference statement on 'Sunlight, ultraviolet irradiation and the skin'. (conference held May 1989.)
  
• links to porphyria-related information
  
• US Environmental Protection Agency site has public information about UV including monitoring information about measured levels of UV in various countries

Various

• The UK Key Advances in Clinical Practice Series website
  This organisation arranges symposia and publishes books covering the interpretation of published and unpublished clinical research in various medical fields, including oncology and infectious disease and also in the area of NHS policy and public health medicine.

• International Skin Care Nursing Group (ISNG)
  Through it's activities it aims to raise the profile of skin health and the contribution that nurses can make in this area of health care. Broadly speaking the groups objectives relate to marshalling and co-ordinating the existing skills and resources in skin care nursing and making these available to all.

• The James Lind Alliance
  The James Lind Alliance aims to identify the most important gaps in knowledge about the effects of treatments, and has been established to bring patients and clinicians together in 'Working Partnerships' to identify and prioritise the unanswered questions that they agree are most important. This information will help ensure that those who fund health research are aware of what matters to patients and clinicians.

Dermatology Departments and Organisations

Many Dermatology Departments are on the Internet, mostly simply with information about the Department. There is a full list. Here are a few of them:

• Dr Giovanni Menchini ( Pisa, Italy) writes: the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology has created its official website which is well worth visiting for information about the Academy
• A few illustrated case reports from Washington
• The Dept. of Dermatology at Mie University in Japan has some dermatopathological photographs of light microscopy and electron microscopy of skin lesions, and a page of links to medical sites on the Internet.
• The British Departments currently represented are Newcastle with information about the department, its research and some teaching material, the Department of Dermatology at Glasgow University, St John's Institute of Dermatology (London) and the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow

The Department of Dermatology, University of Wales College of Medicine has dermatological information related to the activities of the department, including research information.  Botanical Dermatology Database (an electronic reincarnation of Mitchell and Rook's Botanical Dermatology), publications, courses, forthcoming meetings, worldwide links and an online order form for information sheets about a large number of contact allergens.'

Exeter Guidelines for GPs: Dr Andrew Warin has published these straightforward advice notes for local GPs for some years. Now they are available on the local PCG Website. There are also some patient advice sheets which are printable.'

Academic Departments

Department of Dermatology University of Newcastle

Department of Dermatology University of Glasgow

St John's Institute of Dermatology King's College London

University of Wales College of Medicine

Department of Dermatology, University of Edinburgh

Dermatology Departments

South Glasgow University Hospitals NHSTrust

Royal Devon & Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust

St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne

Organisations

European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology - EADV

International League of Dermatological Societies (ILDS)

Irish Association of Dermatologists (IAD)

American Academy of Dermatology

British Medical Association

Cochrane Skin Group

New Zealand Dermatological Society

Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training

Dermatological Society of Singapore

MedWeb

Royal College of Physicians

Royal Society of Medicine

History of Dermatology Society

International Academy of Cosmetic Dermatology

European Dermatology Forum

North of England Dermatological Society

Scottish Dermatological Society

Skin Therapy Research Unit

Society of Pharmaceutical Medicine

The Skin Therapy Letter is one of the few print publications that is indexed by the National Library of Medicine, and MEDLINE.  The publication is written for Dermatologists, is in its 8th year of publication, and is distributed internationally.  It is unbiased, evidence based, original scientific editorial authored by world-renowned opinion leaders from centres of excellence in the field of dermatology.

Research

• Nijmegen (Holland): and the site of the European Society for Dermatological Research (newsletter, conference information, dermatological research discussion groups.)
• the Society for Investigative Dermatology
• Bristol Dermatology Centre: includes dermatology hospital formulary, GP guidelines and student syllabus

Dermatological History

The French Society for Dermatological History has a site with photographs from the from the dermatological museum of the Hopital Saint-Louis in Paris. It now has an version in English.

Directories

British Journal of Dermatology

Clinical & Experimental Dermatology

Family Doctor Publications, published in association with the BMA, are a series of over 40 books on health topics of frequent concern.  The books contain helpful, concise and up to date health information written by eminent specialists in the particular therapeutic area.

Bandolier is an Oxofrd-based hard copy journal and website all about evidence-based thinking about healthcare and medicine.

NLH Skin Disorders Specialist Library