PRACTICAL DERMATOLOGY

Diploma Course With Mazin Al-Khafaji
London 2009

Introduction

Skin disorders in their various forms are amongst the commonest diseases suffered by mankind, accounting for no less than 20% of all visits to outpatient departments in the Western world.

Chinese medicine has a very significant role to play in treating the widest range of such conditions (particularly chronic disorders such as atopic eczema and psoriasis that prove so difficult to manage satisfactorily with biomedicine), and yet despite this fact, many people practicing Chinese medicine do not achieve optimal results in this field due to lack of specialist training and clinical experience.

Course Overview

This step-by-step, clearly laid out, eleven day diploma course will be run over 10 months. It will offer an in-depth and practical approach to understanding and treating the most prevalent diseases seen in clinic. Emphasis throughout is put on pragmatic and clinically relevant information required to achieve success in practice.

Over a thousand slides will be utilized to illustrate in great detail all the steps required not only to accurately diagnose individual skin diseases, but also to clearly understand and apply the principles of differentiation of pattern types according to Chinese medicine.

Numerous case examples with before and after slides will also be presented and will act as the basis of detailed discussion on the specifics of treatment with clear and practical instructions on adapting effective formulae to the vagaries of clinical reality.