Lesson 1How findings guide management decisions: matching signs to medical vs aesthetic priorities and staging treatmentThis part explains how to turn what you see into step-by-step care, telling apart urgent health needs from beauty goals, putting safety first, and ordering treatments to get best results, less downtime, and long good skin health.
Separating medical and aesthetic prioritiesIdentifying red flags needing referralStaging acute, corrective, and maintenance careBalancing efficacy, downtime, and riskAdapting plans to evolving clinical responseLesson 2Targeted symptom review: acne history, flare triggers, atopic background, photosensitivityThis part goes into asking right questions about pimples, skin allergies, and sun sensitivity, helping you spot what starts flares, patterns over time, and body links that sharpen your diagnosis and guide health and beauty treatments.
Key acne history elements and chronicityIdentifying internal and external flare triggersAssessing atopic and allergic backgroundEvaluating photosensitivity and phototoxicityLinking symptoms to systemic red flagsLesson 3Comprehensive dermatologic history-taking: medical, dermatologic, medication, allergy, hormonal, and family historyHere you learn to set up a full skin history, mixing in other health issues, past skin problems, medicines, allergies, hormone factors, and family ways to guess risks, sharpen diagnosis, and make personal mixed treatment plans.
Core medical comorbidities to documentPast dermatologic diagnoses and coursesMedication, supplement, and topical reviewDrug allergies and adverse skin reactionsHormonal and reproductive history pointsFamily history of dermatoses and cancersLesson 4Clinical scoring tools and scales: acne severity (IGA, GAGS), hyperpigmentation indices, photoaging scales, and quality-of-life measuresThis part covers proven tools for scoring pimples, dark spots, and sun aging, plus life quality checks, showing how to pick, use, and read them to make checks standard, track changes, and teach patients well.
Choosing appropriate acne severity scalesHyperpigmentation and melasma indicesPhotoaging and photodamage grading toolsDermatology quality-of-life instrumentsUsing scores to monitor treatment responseLesson 5Focused aesthetic history: prior procedures, expectations, risk tolerance, desire for "natural" resultsYou learn to get a sharp beauty history, looking at past work, how happy they were, what they hope for, risk okay, and want for natural looks, to plan real, get good consent, and stop upset or harm.
Documenting prior aesthetic proceduresExploring motivations and treatment goalsAssessing risk tolerance and downtime limitsClarifying desire for subtle versus dramatic changeScreening for unrealistic expectationsLesson 6Objective photographic documentation: standardized lighting, views, scales, and serial comparisonYou learn rules for steady skin photos, like lights, camera set, patient pose, and scales, to make good over-time checks, record results, and talk clear with patients and team.
Setting up consistent lighting and backgroundStandard facial and body view protocolsCamera settings and distance standardizationUse of reference scales and color chartsOrganizing and securing image archivesLesson 7Structured skin examination: lesion morphology, distribution, skin type (Fitzpatrick), photodamage grading, pore size, texture, atrophy, scarringThis part teaches full body skin check for mixed care, stressing spot shapes, where they are, skin type, sun damage grade, pores, feel, thinning, and scars to help right diagnosis and beauty plans.
Systematic regional skin inspectionDescribing primary and secondary lesionsDetermining Fitzpatrick and Glogau typeGrading photodamage and dyschromiaAssessing texture, pores, and laxityCharacterizing scars and atrophy patternsLesson 8Lifestyle and skincare assessment: products, routines, sun exposure, smoking, diet, sleepHere you learn to check life ways and skin care habits, like products, daily doings, sun time, smoking, food, and rest, finding things to change that make sickness worse or beauty bad, and advise patients good.
Analyzing current skincare products and stepsAssessing UV exposure and photoprotectionEvaluating smoking, vaping, and pollutionDietary patterns affecting skin healthSleep, stress, and circadian disruptionDesigning realistic behavior change plans
