Phototherapy

Online continuing medical education designed for health professionals and students.

Learning objectives will be listed for each topic.

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Acknowledgements  

Developed for the phototherapy unit at Waikato Hospital's Department of Dermatology. The author also received some funding from the University of Auckland Goodfellow Unit in 2007.

Author: Hon A/Prof Amanda Oakley, Dermatologist, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2007.  

Images have been sourced from the following:

• Hon Assoc Prof Amanda Oakley
• The Department of Dermatology, Health Waikato
• Prof Raimo Suhonen (Finland)
• Arthur Ellis (medical artist)

Course contents 

• Basic photophysics
• Basic photobiology
• Indications for phototherapy
• UVB phototherapy
• UVA photo(chemo)therapy
• Photodynamic therapy
• Photosensitivity
• Phototherapy resources

Phototherapy quizzes

• Nine questions on photophysics
• Ten questions on photobiology
• Seven questions on the indications for phototherapy
• Twelve questions on UVB phototherapy
• Fourteen questions on UVA photochemotherapy
• Seven questions on photodynamic therapy