Patients expect clinicians to care for skin problems. New techniques allow rapid assessment and treatment with less scarring. Although often neglected in residency training, various skin procedures can be used every day in your practice. Why refer the patients out when you can treat most of them? The CME medical conference includes a review of common skin procedures including skin biopsy techniques, cryosurgery, electrosurgery, radiofrequency skin tightening, nail procedures, dermoscopy and coding. Over 1,000 actual clinical slides are used in addition to test to review treatment of lipomas, cysts, ingrown toenails, warts, skin tags, chalazions, abscesses, actinic, seborrheics, basal cell and squamous cell cancers, malignant melanomas and much more.
The first day of the conference is dedicated to the procedures themselves. Understand the approach to the patient with a skin lesion including providing safe and effective local anesthesia. Learn to perform all types of skin biopsies: punch, shave, currettement and excision. Cryosurgery reviews the use of topical refrigerants, liquid nitrogen and hand-held cryo units – numerous methods to perform an age-old technique. As most CME medical conference attendees say after seeing electrosurgery, “Amazing! Practical.” Used every day in the office, these techniques enable treatment of common problems you never thought you would treat; skin lesions, benign nevi, telangiectasias of the face, epilation, ingrown toenails, pyogenic granulomas and more.
The second day of the conference reviews clinical surgical dermatologic problems in detail. A wealth of clinical slides of various skin lesions are used to reinforce the lecture. During this session we also demonstrate the use of dermoscopy in the primary care office.
Additional useful sessions include one hour discussions addressing procedural coding and developing an implementation plan.

Consider registering for the Basic Suturing course.
Consider registering for the Advanced Suturing course (2010).
Consider registering for the Chronic Wound Care: Advanced Suturing course (2011).
Consider registering for the Dermatologic Procedures and Basic Suturing Value Package.
Consider registering for the Dermatologic Procedures and Advanced Suturing Value Package.
Consider registering for the Hot Topics in Procedures course.