Short Courses

Your registration to the ASDP Virtual Annual Meeting includes admission to the Short Courses.

• Short Course I
  Lessons Learned: Pearls and Reflections from Leaders in Dermatopathology
• Short Course II
  Beyond Gestalt Diagnosis
• Short Course III
  Diversity in Dermatopathology

Short Course I

Lessons Learned: Pearls and Reflections from Leaders in Dermatopathology

Thursday, October 21
9:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Central Time

Course Director
Benjamin K. Stoff, MD, MA
Emory University School of Medicine

3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM 

This interactive short course will feature a diverse group of leaders in dermatopathology, as they ‎reflect on pivotal professional and personal decision points in their careers. Speakers will address a set ‎of predetermined questions (e.g. what is an IHC stain or other test you wish you’d used earlier or wish ‎you’d stopped using earlier, what article that you read in the last five years has changed your practice ‎the most, what advice would you give to trainees in the audience about achieving work life-home life ‎balance, what is the most critical ethical or policy issue facing dermatopathologists, etc.). Short lecture ‎presentations will be followed by an extended, interactive, panel discussion with the virtual audience.  ‎By the end of the session, attendees will come away with pearls from the experience of trusted ‎leaders in our specialty.

Faculty and Course Outline:
 

9:15 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.	Welcome and Introductions Benjamin K. Stoff, MD, MA Emory University School of Medicine
9:20 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.	Lessons Learned from Dr. Tom Helm Thomas N. Helm, MD Buffalo Medical Group
9:45 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.	Lessons Learned from Dr. Lyn McDivitt Duncan Lyn McDivitt Duncan, MD Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
10:10 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.	Lessons Learned from Dr. Ronald Rapini Ronald P. Rapini, MD University of Texas McGovern Medical School and MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:40 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.	Break
11:15 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.	Lessons Learned from Dr. Ifeoma Perkins Ifeoma U. Perkins, MD University of Colorado
11:40 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.	Lessons Learned from Dr. Beth Ruben Beth S. Ruben, MD Palo Alto Medical Foundation
12:05 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Lessons Learned from Dr. Antonio Subtil Antonio Subtil, MD, MBA Royal Jubilee and Victoria General Hospitals
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Q&A

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Apply practice pearls derived from the experience of expert dermatopathologists to increase ‎diagnostic accuracy and improve patient outcomes.  ‎
• ‎Utilize professional and personal development advise from diverse and experienced ‎dermatopathologists in their own practices. ‎

Short Course II

Beyond Gestalt Diagnosis

Saturday, October 23
9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Central Time

Course Director
Christine J. Ko, MD
Yale University

 
3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM

Becoming an expert dermatopathologist takes a lot of time and experience. Some suggest that it takes ‎at least 10,000 hours, or 5 hours per day over 6 years, of deliberate practice for true expertise to ‎develop. Deliberate practice in dermatopathology is augmented by knowledge of specific cognitive ‎principles that affect visual perception. This course will focus on the how of making a diagnosis, with ‎introduction to concepts like fast (gestalt) and slow thinking, and how these methods can be applied to ‎minimize diagnostic errors and improve patient outcomes.‎
 

Faculty and Course Outline:

9:30 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.	Welcome and Introductions Christine J. Ko, MD Yale University
9:35 a.m. - 10:02 a.m.	Inflammatory Inflitrates and Diagnostic Error Almut Böer-Auer, MD Dermatologikum Hamburg and Munster University
10:03 a.m.  10:30 a.m.	Benign Melanocytic Lesions Timothy H. McCalmont, MD University of California, San Francisco
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Break
11:01 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Difficult Cases Jag Bhawan, MD Boston University
11:31 a.m. - Noon	Puzzles, Fussels, Artifacts, and Clues: Diagnoses with Near Nothing Bernhard W.H. Zelger, MD University of Innsbruck
12:01 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Cases to Learn from YES Philip E. Leboit, MD University of California, San Francisco
12:31 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Soft Tissue Cases Jerad M. Gardner, MD Geisinger Medical Center
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.	Q&A

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Identify and understand concepts in visual perception.‎
• Recognize how we come to an expert diagnosis in dermatology.‎
• Apply methods to daily practice to reduce diagnostic error and prevent perceptive ‎errors.‎

Short Course III

Diversity in Dermatopathology

Sunday, October 24
8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Central Time

Course Director
Jane L. Messina, MD
Moffitt Cancer Center

 
4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM
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