A barista will be serving complimentary coffee

The day will start with  a rapid fire pre-quiz which you will answer using our audience response tool. Later, you will get individualised feedback comparing your results to a post-quiz.

The importance of using a dermatoscope on all skin lesions, and how to use it correctly. Topics will include why you should use both the polarized and non-polarized modes on your dermatoscope and when to use contact and non-contact dermatoscopy.

What is involved in a full skin check within the context of a GP appointment

Professor Amanda Oakley will discuss how dermatoscopy evolved from subjective metaphoric language into an objective descriptive language (revised pattern analysis). She will discuss the fundamental building blocks of dermatoscopic language, and how these basic blocks can combine into benign and malignant patterns and their biologic symmetry or asymmetry.

Morning tea, and networking

The TADA algorithm focuses on the importance of being able to recognise benign entities. This talk will focus on the key clinical and dermatoscopic features of benign lesions.  By the end of this talk you should be comfortable diagnosing the 4 major benign melanotic lesions (seborrheic keratosis, haemangioma, dermatofibromas and sebaceous hyperplasia) and the 2 major benign non melanotic lesions (cysts and viral warts). There will be quizzes throughout the presentation to reinforce key messages. You will have access to these quizzes after the symposium to act as a quick refresher courses.

A review of the  fundamentals of diagnosing a benign nevus (melanotic and non melanotic), the relevance of the patient’s age when assessing nevi and the concept of a “signature nevus”. There will be plenty of interactive quizzes to help you understand and consolidate your learnings.

Melanomas are the most deadly skin cancer and dermatoscopically can be diagnosed when only a few mm in size. This lecture will teach you the fundamental dermatoscopic features of all the different types of melanomas. There will be quizzes throughout the presentation to reinforce key messages. You will have access to these quizzes after the symposium to act as a quick refresher course.

‘Chaos and Clues’ is an algorithm to help you diagnose all pigmented lesions. Melanomas, SCCs and BCCs can all be pigmented or non-pigmented. Professor Cliff Rosendahl in another dynamic lecture will make all this abundantly clear and make you laugh as well! Cliff is a co-author of the Chaos and Clues algorithm. There will be quizzes throughout the presentation to reinforce key messages. You will have access to these quizzes after the symposium to act as a quick refresher course.

This talk by Professor Cliff Rosendahl builds on the Fundamentals of Chaos and Clues talk, with discussion on the concept of Exceptions, new research behind Chaos of Border Abruptness and will also reinforce key messages to help solidify your understanding. There will be quizzes throughout the presentation to reinforce key messages. You will have access to these quizzes after the symposium to act as a quick refresher course.

We will be monitoring quiz results throughout the day and in this last segment we will focus on the areas that we feel need more attention. This will also be a time to ask any burning questions.

This is our preferred algorithm for diagnosing non-pigmented lesions. In this lecture you will get lots of repetition on dermatoscopy of non pigmented lesions. Non-pigmented lesions can include nevi, melanomas, BCCs and SCCs. This is an amazing lecture and given with humour and passion by Professor Cliff Rosendahl who is a co-author of the ‘Prediction without Pigment’ algorithm. There will be quizzes throughout the presentation to reinforce key messages. You will have access to these quizzes after the symposium to act as a quick refresher course.

Squamous Cell Carcinomas (SCC) are the second most common skin cancer and can be lethal. This lecture will cover the dermatoscopic features of SCC, SCC insitu and actinic keratosis. There will be quizzes throughout the presentation to reinforce key messages. You will have access to these quizzes after the symposium to act as a quick refresher course.

Basal Cell Carcinomas (BCCs) are the most common skin cancer and dermatoscopically are often the easiest to diagnose even when only a few mm in size. This lecture will teach you the fundamental and advanced dermatoscopic features of BCCs and the importance of diagnosing aggressive sub-types of BCCs. We will touch briefly on the medical and surgical management of BCCs. There will be quizzes throughout the presentation to reinforce key messages. You will have access to these quizzes after the symposium to act as a quick refresher course.

Delicious lunch provided along with time for networking

Professor Amanda Oakley, who has been educating dermatologists and GPs in dermatoscopy in NZ and around the world for a decade or more will present a fascinating summary and leave you with core skills to help you manage these difficult lesions.

Our panel will present interesting, difficult and educational clinical cases that are relevant to every day practice. Cases highlighting important clinical scenarios we face frequently. For example, should you ever do a punch biopsy on a pigmented lesion? Or, how to approach a dermatoscopically normal but clinically suspicious lesion. Or how to manage a histological report which just doesn’t marry well with your clinical/dermatoscopic diagnosis.

Our professors will go over a post symposium quiz and will run an educational quiz with prizes designed to consolidate your learning in an interactive and fun way

We will use this time to do the post quiz, provide feedback (anonymous) on the quiz results and answer questions.