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Training Family Medicine Residents in Dermoscopy Using an e-Learning Course: Pilot Interventional Study

Training Family Medicine Residents in Dermoscopy Using an e-Learning Course: Pilot Interventional Study

Only 8% of French family doctors use a dermatoscope as part of their routine practice, compared with 40% in Australia, a country hit by a rise in melanoma [6,7]. The main obstacles limiting the use of dermatoscopes are the difficulty of accessing them in consultation and lack of training [8]. Proper training is even more important as this technique offers nothing more than skin inspection alone if the user is untrained or inexperienced [9,10].

Pauline Friche, Lionel Moulis, Aurélie Du Thanh, Olivier Dereure, Claire Duflos, Francois Carbonnel

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e56005

From the Cochrane Library: Visual Inspection and Dermoscopy, Alone or in Combination, for Diagnosing Keratinocyte Skin Cancers in Adults

From the Cochrane Library: Visual Inspection and Dermoscopy, Alone or in Combination, for Diagnosing Keratinocyte Skin Cancers in Adults

For in-person basal cell carcinoma (BCC) diagnosis, the diagnostic odds ratio revealed dermoscopy and VI were 8.2 (95% CI 3.5-9.3) times more effective than VI alone (likelihood-ratio test P Sources of heterogeneity were unclear due to poor reporting and lack of available data, although the authors suggest that observer experience, type of dermatoscope used, and the case mix of included lesions may have contributed.

Colleen M Klein, Torunn E Sivesind, Robert P Dellavalle

JMIR Dermatol 2024;7:e41657