
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™10 AAPA Category 1 CME Credits
10 ANCC Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
$745 for Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants
$595 for Nurses
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
Meeting Schedule: Monday, March 8, 2027
- 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: An Approach to Dermatologic Diagnosis - Dr. Stephen E. Helms (30 Mins)
- 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: The Treatment of Acne and Related Disorders: What’s in Your Follicle? - Dr. Amy Flischel (30 Mins)
- 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Disease - Dr. Jeremy D. Jackson (60 Mins)
- 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Common and Uncommon Presentations of Eczema: The Many Faces of Skin Irritation - Dr. Nancye McCowan (30 Mins)
- 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Solutions to the Rural Access to Care Conundrum - Dr. Robert T. Brodell (30 Mins)
- 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch (non-CME)
- 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Superficial Fungal Infections and the KOH Preparation - Dr. Stephen E. Helms (60 Mins)
- 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment - Dr. Jeremy D. Jackson (60 Mins)
Meeting Schedule: Saturday, March 13, 2027
- 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Dermatologic Emergencies - Dr. Amy Flischel (30 Mins)
- 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Pigmented Lesions: Which Ones Require Attention? - Dr. Nancye McCowan (30 Mins)
- 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Basic Dermatologic Procedures: Tips and Tricks - Dr. Stephen E. Helms (60 Mins)
- 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: The Deliberative Biopsy: Help Your Pathologist Make the Right Diagnosis Every Time - Dr. Robert T. Brodell (30 Mins)
- 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Warts - Dr. Robert T. Brodell (30 Mins)
- 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch (non-CME)
- 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Patient Safety: Technical and Cognitive Errors - Dr. Stephen E. Helms (30 Mins)
- 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Dermatology Adventure: Mississippi Nigeria Education and Mentoring Exchange (MNEME) - Dr. Robert T. Brodell (30 Mins)
- 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Interactive Session: Diagnosis and Treatment Discussion - Faculty Panel (60 Mins)
Overall Course Objectives
- Describe and diagnose common skin conditions.
- Treat common skin conditions with a full appreciation of the risks and benefits of treatment options.
- Appreciate the collaborative relationship between dermatology and primary care.
Dr. Stephen E. Helms' Topics
- An Approach to Dermatologic Diagnosis (30 Mins)
- Recognize primary and secondary lesions.
- Classify rashes into groups based on morphology.
- Determine the treatment approach based on the classification of dermatologic disease.
- Superficial Fungal Infections and the KOH Preparation (60 Mins)
- Identify superficial fungus infections based on physical diagnostic criteria.
- Differentiate between superficial fungal infections and other papulosquamous diseases on clinical grounds.
- Distinguish between superficial fungal infections caused by dermatophytes and those caused by yeast organisms.
- Understand the utility of the KOH preparation.
- Choose appropriate therapy for superficial fungal infections.
- Basic Dermatologic Procedures: Tips and Tricks (60 Mins)
- Demonstrate the techniques involved in common dermatologic procedures.
- Review risks, costs, and benefits of these procedures.
- Patient Safety: Technical and Cognitive Errors (30 Mins)
- Describe the types of cognitive errors which are common in dermatology.
- Develop strategies to reduce diagnostic errors.
Dr. Amy Flischel's Topics
- The Treatment of Acne and Related Disorders: What’s in Your Follicle? (30 Mins)
- Develop an understanding of the pathogenesis of acne.
- Classify acne by clinical characteristics and relate this to the pathogenic mechanisms.
- Review the use of appropriate topical and systemic agents to attack each type of acne.
- Understand the risks as well as benefits associated with these treatments.
- Dermatologic Emergencies (30 Mins)
- Facilitate the identification and clinical diagnosis of life-threatening dermatoses (e.g., toxic epidermal necrolysis, necrotizing fasciitis, and DRESS syndrome) by recognizing key clinical features.
- Outline immediate, evidence-based management strategies for emergent skin conditions, including the cessation of causative drugs, fluid resuscitation, and the appropriate, timely initiation of specialized care.
Dr. Robert T. Brodell's Topics
- Solutions to the Rural Access to Care Conundrum (30 Mins)
- Demonstrate the problems associated with inadequate rural access to care.
- Provide evidence supporting proven approaches to increase the numbers of physicians in rural areas.
- Highlight the successful efforts in this regard at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
- The Deliberative Biopsy: Help Your Pathologist Make the Right Diagnosis Every Time (30 Mins)
- Choose the correct place, time, and procedure to maximize the potential for a correct histopathologic diagnosis.
- The Diagnosis and Treatment of Warts (30 Mins)
- Review the clinical features of Papillomavirus infection.
- Review treatment options, including the role of newer modalities such as the vascular lesion laser and natural alpha interferon.
- Dermatology Adventure: Mississippi Nigeria Education and Mentoring Exchange (MNEME) (30 Mins)
- Demonstrate the benefits of mission work for the population of an underserved country, the providers, and targeted medical students.
- Review common skin diseases in the tropics and their similarity to conditions seen in the United States.
- Guide individuals ready to plan a mission trip.
Dr. Nancye McCowan's Topics
- Common and Uncommon Presentations of Eczema: The Many Faces of Skin Irritation (30 Mins)
- Discuss clues to the diagnosis of eczema with a focus on facial eczema.
- Review available drugs to treat eczema and their risks and benefits.
- Emphasize clinical pearls that provide solutions for primary care.
- Pigmented Lesions: Which Ones Require Attention? (30 Mins)
- Develop an understanding of the clinical features of normal "moles" based on the natural history of these lesions.
- Recognize the clinical features that differentiate melanoma and its precursor lesions from benign moles and other benign pigmented lesions.
Dr. Jeremy D. Jackson's Topics
- Cutaneous Manifestations of Internal Disease (60 Mins)
- Identify medically significant internal diseases based on diagnostic cutaneous clues.
- Adequately describe skin findings, devise a presumptive differential diagnosis, and take an appropriate history.
- Efficiently confirm diagnoses using readily available tests.
- Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment (60 Mins)
- Demonstrate the clinical characteristics of keratinocytic cancers (non-melanoma skin cancers), emphasizing pearls to allow early diagnosis.
- Review the epidemiology and incidence of skin cancer.
- Discuss treatments of skin cancer commonly performed by primary care physicians.
Faculty Panel
- Interactive Session: Diagnosis and Treatment Discussion (60 Mins)




















