Interrelation between rheumatic and dermatological diseases: from laboratory to clinical practice in a Brazilian reality

Title: Interrelation between rheumatic and dermatological diseases: from laboratory to clinical practice in a Brazilian reality

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Rheumatology and Dermatology have a wide spectrum of clinical diseases that are commonly seen in primary care. Early recognition and adequate evaluation are key factors for prognosis and adequate referral. They are a crescent specialty worldwide, although it is usually an elective rotation in many medical programs.

The Department of Medicine of our Institution offers the opportunity to international medical students to share a unique approach of systemic and skin diseases, facilitating education across disciplines. In addition, the Department aims to share their experience in diagnosing and treating common diseases in the southeastern region of the country.

This course will focus on clinical principles of Rheumatology and Dermatology, tropical diseases, autoimmune/inflammatory diseases, and skin cancer, intermingled with histopathology, immunology, and basic science concepts.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. Discuss an interrelation between rheumatologically and dermatological diseases from a clinical and immunological perspective.

2. Discuss dermatological and rheumatological manifestations of tropical and emerging diseases such as leprosy, tuberculosis, leishmaniosis, dengue fever, Zika and Chikunguya.

3. To recognize the principal differential diagnoses and comorbidities (infectious / neoplastic)

4. Recognize genetic and immunological factors associated with the main rheumatological and dermatological diseases

5. Basic concepts of treatments

 

TEACHING METHODS 

1. Visit to the university hospital and outpatient clinic;

2. Interactive bench to bedside lectures with senior faculty, including essential topics: basics and immunological aspects of rheumatic and dermatologic diseases, as outlined in the week schedule. For this activity, students will have access to related articles/materials in advance;

3. Discussion of didactic clinical cases;

4. Patient follow-up at the outpatient clinic;

5. Lectures with active interactive methodology.

Assessment :

1. Presence and pontuality;

2. Multiple choice questions.

Duration: 1 week.

Prerequisites: pre-clinical knowledge and fluent English.

Course material:

1. Materials elaborated by senior faculty;

2. Seminars (articles will be provided prior to sessions).

 

FACULTY

Course organization and responsibility:

• Simone Appenzeller

• Renata Magalhães

 

Professors from the Department of Rheumatology (Prof Dr Manoel Bértolo, Prof Dr Lilian TL Costallat, Prof Dr Ibsen Coimbra, Prof Dr Zoraida Sachetto) and Dermatology (Prof Dr Paulo Velho, Prof Dr Andrea Eloy, and Senior Clinicians from Hospital das Clínicas-Division of Rheumatology, Dermatology and Infectious Diseases.

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? 

• Medical students with pre-clinical knowledge;

• Residents and graduated physicians;

• Up to 7 students.

 

ONE-WEEK-SCHEDULE

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
800-900	WELLCOME AND VISIT TO THE UNICAMP CLINICS HOSPITAL	Clinical cases	Clinical cases	Clinical cases	Clinical cases
9-1200	PSORIASIS/ SPONDYLARTHRITIS (THE USE OF BIOLOGIC THERAPY IN BRAZIL)	DERMATOLOGIC AND RHEUMATOLOGIC CHILDHOOD DISEASE	LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS CUTANEOUS AND SYSTEMIC AND OTHER COLAGENOSIS	CUTANEOUS NEOPLASMS / SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS	DERMATOSIS OF THE TRAVELERS “BE AWARE“ MOSQUITO TRANSMITTED DISEASE (LEISHMANIOSIS, MIIASIS) AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE
1200-1400	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1400-1500	Clinical cases	Clinical cases	Clinical cases	Clinical cases	Clinical cases
1500-1700	BULLOUS DERMATOSIS IN BRAZIL (ENDEMIC PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEOUS)/ VASCULITIS	LEPROSY AND TUBERCULOSIS	EMERGING DISEASES ON TROPICALS ZIKA, DENGUE, CHIKUNGUNYA, BARTONELLA AND OTHERS	RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS   CUTANEOUS ALLERGIES (URTICARIA, ATOPIC AND CONTACT DERMATITIS)	Anatomo-clinical correlation LABORATORY