Department of Dermatology, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University

<body onload=document.processLogonForm.userName.focus();> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber1" height="74"> <tr> <td height="74" background="images/top.jpg"><a href="index.asp" target="_top"><img border="0" src="images/pixel.gif" width="500" height="73" alt="Wales College of Medicine Department of Dermatology"></a></td> <td height="74" width="79" background="images/right.jpg"><a href="http://www.cf.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="images/pixel.gif" width="79" height="74" alt="Cardiff University - Prifysgol Caerdydd"></a></td> </tr> </table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" width="800"> <tr> <td colspan="3"><p>This page uses frames and your browser does not support them.  You may use the main sections below, however in order to access the full features of this website please view this page via a frames-enabled browser.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <FORM name="processLogonForm" action="/d2l/Tools/login/doLogin.asp" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="ostype" value=""> <input type="hidden" name="btype" value=""> <input type="hidden" name="bversion" value=""> <script language="Javascript">  </script> <td valign="top"><p> <TABLE CELLPADDING="3" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD><B>Username:</B><BR><INPUT NAME="userName" size="9"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><B>Password:</B><BR><INPUT name="password" size="9" type="password" autocomplete="off"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>Please note your password is case sensitive.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><INPUT name="Login" type="submit" value="Login"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p> <br>  <p align="left"><font color="#005000"><b>Sonia Meade Swanston</b><br> <img border="0" alt="Sonia Meade Swanston" src="images/sonia.jpg" width="125" height="124" style="float: left; margin: 1px 4px 3px 1px"> I grabbed the opportunity to update and improve my clinical skill and theoretical knowledge in Dermatology while I was in a "practice hiatus"....awaiting approval to open my own clinic here in St. Maarten in the Caribbean. Dermatology had long been a favourite area of my practice. The opportunity to do the course on-line was welcome. Since opening my practice in June this year, I have begun to treat many more skin cases, and I have a far keener sensitivity to the issues that patients with skin diseases have. I now take a different approach to the use of topical steroids for example, and I find I need to communicate a lot with the pharmacists here, as they all seem to order only one strength....potent!! Also finding suitable skin moisturisers for atopic eczema is challenging....maybe other GP's don't prescribe them!<br><br> And what a sense of satisfaction, when, after one week of treatment, the boy with excoriated, hyperpigmented, lichenified atopic eczema in the popliteal fossae, returns with a big smile on his face, the skin almost back to normal...!</font> </p> </p> <p> </p> <p><br> </TD> <td valign="top" width="550"> <table border="0" width="550" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111"> <tr> <td width="233" valign="top"> <p><font color="#005000"> The <b>Department of Dermatology</b> in Cardiff, UK, is an international centre for dermatology research and teaching. Renowned for its excellent distance learning, full time courses and research programmes, it is based at the busy combined campus of <b> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cardiffandvale.wales.nhs.uk/">The University Hospital of Wales</a></b> and the <b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/medicine/">Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University</a></b>.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#005000"> The head of department is <b> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/medicine/dermatology/staff/finlay.htm">Professor Andrew Finlay</a></b>.</font></p> <p> </p></td> <td width="285" valign="top"><p><img src="images/top_right.jpg" alt="Wales College of Medicine" width="208" height="118" border="0"></p> <p><font color="#005000"><b><a href="portal/asp/dpd.html">Diploma in Practical Dermatology</a></b></font></p> <p><font color="#005000"><b><a href="portal/asp/ddsc.html">Diploma in Clinical Dermatology</a></b></font></p> <p><font color="#005000"><b><a href="portal/quality/index.html">Quality of Life</a></b></font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="534" valign="top" colspan="2"> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="left"><img border="0" src="images/bottom_right.jpg" alt="Welsh College of Medicine" width="500" height="116"></p></td> </tr> </table> </td><p></p></TD></FORM></tr> <tr> <td valign=top colspan="2"> <p align="center"><font color="#808080" size="1">© Copyright 2004-2005 Desire2Learn Incorporated. All rights reserved.</font></td> </tr></table> <p> </p> </body>