There are 36 topics in the monthly dermatopathology slide training and lecture.
First year: Inflammatory skin disorders
- Introduction to inflammatory disorders
- Spongiotic dermatitis
- Intraepidermal bullous disease
- Subepidermal bullous disease
- Immunofluorescence
- Interface and lichenoid dermatitis
- Psoriasiform dermatitis
- Perivascular dermatitis
- Vasculitis and vasculopathy
- Granulomatous dermatitis
- Nodular and diffuse dermatitis
- Panniculitis
Second year: Infection, non-inflammatory disorders, tumor of epidermis
- Bacterial infection
- Mycobacterial infection
- Fungal infection
- Viral infection and parasite infestation
- Deposition disorder
- Disorders of collagen and elastic fibers
- Alopecia and adnexal disorders
- Introduction to skin neoplasm
- Keratinocytic tumors
- Benign melanocytic tumors
- Melanoma & simulants
- Cyst and metastasis
Third year: Adnexal tumors, soft tissue tumors, lymphoma, histiocytosis
- Apocrine and eccrine tumors
- Follicular and sebaceous tumors
- Basal cell carcinoma and malignant adnexal tumors
- Neural and neuroendocrine tumors
- Muscular, cartilage, and bone tumors
- Benign vascular tumors
- Intermediate and malignant vascular tumors, perivascular tumors
- Benign fibrous and fibrohistiocytic tumors
- Malignant fibrous and fibrohistiocytic tumors
- Histiocytosis
- Cutaneous T cell lymphoma
- Cutaneous B cell lymphoma and leukemia