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Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on the foundations relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will acquire the knowledge required to safely and confidently diagnose and treat commonly encountered skin lesions. It is the ideal starting point to build core knowledge in skin cancer management and acquire vital diagnostic skills and basic management techniques to provide effective care to patients. Unit one introduces the foundation information required for skin cancer medicine and outlines the content of the course. Unit two describes the BEST protocol (BEnign or Suspicious Test) and divides lesions into benign or suspicious with guidelines and clinical images of pigmented skin lesions. Unit three discusses the importance of skin checks and commences with a table dividing assessment of skin cancer risk into three categories: high, medium and low risk and includes patient self-examination and opportunistic skin check. Unit four describes partial and complete punch and shave biopsy techniques.
4 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on the approach to pigmented skin lesions relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will acquire the knowledge required to safely and confidently diagnose and treat commonly encountered skin lesions. Unit one discusses common benign lesions including freckles, solar lentigo, seborrheic keratosis, haemangioma, dermatofibroma and blue nevi. Benign lesions can mimic skin cancers and careful examination is required to decide management steps.Unit two begins with the description of dermoscopy including examples of dermoscopic devices used for this technique. The 3-point checklist consists of asymmetry in colour or structures, atypical network and blue-white structures (white scar-like depigmentation or blue pepper-like, globular or structure-less areas), showing various clinical dermoscopic images of lesions.The final unit covers dysplastic nevi and melanoma. A table is shown of the relationship between nevus, dysplastic nevus and melanoma.
4 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on the approach to non-pigmented skin lesions relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will acquire the knowledge required to safely and confidently diagnose and treat commonly encountered skin lesions. This unit starts with a clinical description of solar keratosis and outlines treatment options including field treatment. Attention is also paid to Bowen’s disease (a very early form of skin cancer), including symptoms, diagnosis (punch biopsy) and treatment. Unit two describes keratocanthoma, a low-grade malignancy that requires a deep incision biopsy, and also discusses squamous cell carcinoma, a common cancer due to chronic, cumulative, and sun exposure. Treatment options include surgery, curettage and cautery, specialist referral or radiation therapy. Unit three describes basal cell carcinoma, the most common human cancer due to intermittent excessive sun exposure.
4 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on dermatopathology relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will learn about the best approach to pathology requests and how to interpret pathology reports. This unit list the steps that occur when a skin sample is sent for pathology testing. The course then continues with images of pathology processing of a punch, shave and excision biopsy. The report interpretation is discussed including interobserver agreement, clues to pathologist uncertainty, reconciliation of unexpected results, assessment of margins and errors that occur in dermatopathology.
4 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on topical treatments options and medico-legal issues relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will learn about the topical treatments, the (contra-)indications and dose of Imiquimod 5% cream used for treating superficial basal cell carcinomas, and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) 5% cream used for preventing and treating SCC and Bowen’s disease. A table of topical treatment regimens in primary care for solar keratosis is provided. An extensive list of tips including cost, pre-treatment and patient-education is provided. The unit then looks at different treatment options for solar keratosis. Clinical images of lesions at the initial visit, during and after topical treatment are shown. Medico-legal tips and resources are listed in unit two. The importance of detailed medical record keeping, follow up and recall systems and patient consent are included. The unit concludes with a medico-legal case study.
4 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on preparation for surgical treatment relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will learn the fundamental principles when preparing for and performing skin cancer surgery. The fundamentals include an aseptic approach using sterile equipment, sutures and dressings and emphasises the importance of clean skin, operator preparation and environment. The unit then looks at local anaesthetics and haemostasis. Equipment for wound closure and sutures are listed including the fundamentals of closing the defect. Recommended suture removal times and the suture techniques, use of prophylactic antibiotics and anticoagulants conclude this unit. Unit two describes the punch and shave biopsy and includes a video and clinical images of these procedures.
3.5 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on excision and repair relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will learn the instruments used for wound closure and sutures used for skin closure, including suture technique and removal times. Drawings and description of the simple interrupted suture are discussed, including a recording of this procedure. Unit two emphasizes the importance of using an absorbable suture and shows drawings of a conventional buried dermal suture. The unit concludes with a recording of this procedure. Unit three focuses on the preparation for an elliptical excision, including placement of excisions for the best cosmetic result. It outlines the steps leading to performing the ellipse including surgical marking up. The procedure is described, and illustrated by drawings of the incision considering maximal skin tension lines and fusiform excision lines. The unit concludes with a video of this procedure.
3.5 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
6 MOPS (Surgery) hours
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on medicare billing relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will learn about the list of billings items and a quick reference card of skin cancer item number guide is discussed. Unit two details what is included in each applicable procedural item number and describes the multiple services rule as well as bulk billed fee for a procedure. Billing of punch and shave biopsy are explained as well as non-surgical procedures including cryotherapy (benign or pre-malignant), serial curettage and lesion removal, considering site, size and type. The unit concludes with billing of post-operative care and treatment after a procedure.
3.5 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on suturing and perfecting the ellipse relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will learn about the most common type of excision (elliptical excision). The detailed marking out process consists of dotting and assessing the edge of lesion, determining solid line surgical margins and designing the ellipse. The unit is illustrated with mathematical diagrams and clinical images of performing the ellipse on various parts of the anatomy. Unit two describes how best to cut the ellipse and how to hold the scalpel. Diagrams and images demonstrate the best practice approach to cutting the ellipse. Videos of blade handle tilt and cutting ends of the ellipse are illustrated. Unit three lists different types of sutures and describes the pros and cons of each suture type. These include dermal, the slider, dermal pulley, butterfly dermal, simple interrupted, mattress and continuous sutures. Knotting techniques for sutures are described.
4.5 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
6 MOPS (Surgery) hours
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on local anaesthesia relating to skin cancer medicine. Participants will learn about the pharmacology and guidelines of the two main classes of local anaesthetic - amides (lignocaine, bupivacaine, prilocaine) and esters (procaine, benzocaine, cocaine). The process of infiltration is listed, including bevel and needle orientation. Practical tips for the patient are outlined to minimise wound damage due to site numbness. The second part of this course focusses on injecting the ear and lip, paying attention to sensory nerve blocks including the trigeminal nerve, infra-orbital nerve, mental nerve and temporal nerves. ‘Tiger country’ complexities are described and supported by diagrams and images. Areas of extreme complexity like Erb's point, facial nerve (temporal branch and marginal branch), and the common peroneal nerve are outlined. Signs and symptoms of nerve injury are included and practice tasks are provided.
4.5 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice