Accurate physical diagnosis, especially of skin disease, hinges on the ability of the clinician to properly classify the type of lesion or lesions seen on the skin. The VisualDx Educational Program is an integrated training system designed to bring visual diagnostic skills to students, residents or any healthcare learner.

The program has 4 components:

• Morphology Tutorial- an online, interactive, self-paced physical diagnosis tutorial and self-exam.
• Morphology Lecture for Educators- a didactic, faculty delivered (PowerPoint) lecture covering the physical dermatologic examination, basic skin lesion morphology and configuration, distributions and an in-class exam.
• VisualDx - visual clinical decision support software for clinicians at the point-of-care.
• Dermatology Pocket Reference - quick reference for lesion vocabulary, therapies and guidelines.

Morphology Tutorial
The Interactive Morphology Tutorial is a powerful self-study tool and contains a virtual tutor in the fundamental terminology of dermatology. It provides a brief overview of how to perform a complete physical skin examination and defines over 45 dermatology terms to describe and classify skin lesions. The tutorial is illustrated with more than 60 photographs and illustrations of morphologies, dermatologic distributions, and steps involved in a complete skin exam.

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Morphology Lecture for Educators
If you are an educator teaching at an accredited healthcare training program, a PowerPoint lecture covering the basic skin exam and morphology terminology is available for teaching your students. The lecture works in synergy with the self-paced tutorial, reinforcing the foundation terminology and aiding key concept retention. It covers over 40 dermatology terms illustrated with more then 70 photographs and images.

Request the free PowerPoint slideshow covering the basic exam and dermatology terminology.

Visual Clinical Decision Support (license required)
The VisualDx Clinical Decision Support System builds upon the morphologic concepts learned by using the Morphology Tutorial. The VisualDx system is used in clinical care to develop differential diagnoses based upon morphologic and patient finding driven searching. Unlike books and atlases indexed by disease, with VisualDx, clinicians can enter patient descriptors and lesion morphologies which result in rapid differential diagnosis assistance. The Interactive Morphology Tutorial and VisualDx work synergistically, and together form a sustainable educational strategy. Dermatologic training is continually reinforced, and patient specific and contextualized diagnostic and treatment knowledge always accessible.

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Dermatology Pocket Reference - Free with demo of VisualDx*
This two card set fits in any pocket and aids in examinations, complete with rulers and images for comparison. Dermatology vocabulary helps students appropriately describe patient findings, along with developing a management plan from the listed therapies and guidelines. *Limit one per student.