Core Curriculum
An Education Planning Guide 

The Core Curriculum provides an organized list of everything a practicing dermatologist needs to know, both clinical and non-clinical, to provide optimal dermatologic care to patients. It identifies learning objectives for dermatologists for every topic within the Core Curriculum. 
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Core Curriculum Offers Tools to Develop Valuable Dermatologic Education
The Academy recently launched an enhanced version of its Core Curriculum to serve as the central education planning guide for the practicing dermatologist.

What is the Core Curriculum?
The Core Curriculum provides an organized list of everything a practicing dermatologist needs to know, both clinical and non-clinical, to provide optimal dermatologic care to patients. It identifies learning objectives for dermatologists for every topic within the Core Curriculum.

How can I use the Core Curriculum?
Those who develop educational sessions and materials can use the learning objectives provided in the Core Curriculum to help guide their work and ensure they thoroughly cover a given topic. Practicing dermatologists can use the Core Curriculum to help identify gaps in their knowledge so they can seek education on those topics.

Who created the Core Curriculum?
The Core Curriculum was developed by the AAD’s Curriculum Task Force and peer reviewed by members of the AAD’s Education Research Committee.

Audiences

  • Program Directors
  • Teaching Faculty
  • AAD Faculty and Speakers
  • Podcast subject matter experts
  • Writers and authors
  • Planning groups responsible for addressing a wide breadth of educational needs
  • Practicing Dermatologists
  • Residents/Fellows
  • Medical Students

Access the AAD Core Curriculum

The AAD Core Curriculum can be accessed by any of the following methods

  • Select Core Curriculum in the AAD Learning Center left hand navigation list (Figure 1 - 1).
  • Select the Core Curriculum catalog filter (Figure 1 - 2) and then select the AAD Core Curriculum course listing (Figure 1 - 4).
  • Type ‘Core Curriculum’ into the course catalog search field (Figure 1 - 3) and then select the AAD Core Curriculum course listing (Figure 1 - 4).

First time users to the AAD Core Curriculum will be directed to an informational page. Select the blue Get Started button (Figure 2 – 1) to access the AAD Core Curriculum.

Figure 1 – Access the AAD Core Curriculum

Figure 2 – AAD Core Curriculum - Get Started


Browsing the AAD Core Curriculum

From the AAD Core Curriculum homepage (Figure 3), select one of the nine primary topics (Figure 3 – 1). Once the primary topic has been selected, all the subtopics associated with the primary topic will be displayed.