DermNet
{{Short description|Reference website for clinical dermatology}}
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| founder = Dr Amanda Oakley
Dr Mark Duffill
Dr Marius Rademaker
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DermNet is a worldwide clinical resource website about dermatology and skin conditions.{{cite web |url=https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/vault/clinical-library |title=New Zealand Doctor |date=August 28, 2017 |access-date=November 30, 2017}} Its co-founder and former editor-in-chief is dermatologist and Adjunct Associate Professor Amanda Oakley.{{cite web |url=https://www.nzdsi.org/Dermatologist-Detail.aspx?id=88167544-6e15-47da-9b50-d9668f246f6d|title=New Zealand Dermatological Society Inc - Dr Amanda Oakley |access-date=May 2, 2023}} The website was launched in 1996 under the umbrella of the New Zealand Dermatological Society, and as of 2017, around 2 million people access the website monthly.{{cite web |url=https://www.telehealth.org.nz/news/queens-birthday-honor-for-amanda-oakley/ |title=Queen's Birthday Honour for Amanda Oakley - NZ Telehealth |access-date=March 26, 2019}}
Purpose
The purpose of DermNet is to provide authoritative information about skin diseases, conditions and treatments for dermatologists, students and medical researchers. The website has been praised for articles on little represented conditions, such as hyperhidrosis.{{cite journal|last1=Halford|first1=Julie|last2=Hunt|first2=Laura|last3=Millington|first3=George|date=April 18, 2009|title=A Patient's Journey: Hyperhidrosis|jstor=20512664|journal=British Medical Journal|volume=338|issue=7700|pages=942–4 }} As of November 2017, there are 2,300 pages and a library of 25,000 dermatology and dermatopathology images on the website.{{cite web|url=http://www.dermweb.com/photo_atlas/default.htm|title=DermWeb|access-date=December 21, 2017}} Pages and images are contributed and reviewed by health professionals from countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.{{cite web|url=http://prpsurvivalguide.org/2017/05/19/540/|title=The PRP Survival Guide – DermNet NZ|access-date=December 21, 2017}} The website also provides online medical courses for the continuing education of dermatologists.
In 2017, DermNet released its first book, Dermatology Made Easy.{{cite web|url=https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/print-archive/dermatology-made-easy|title=New Zealand Doctor — Dermatology Made Easy|access-date=January 1, 2018}}
DermNet also provides an interactive tool, DermDiag, which allows users to assess their own skin conditions. The tool allows the user to input increasingly specific levels of information regarding their condition, starting from location of ailment, up to number of blemishes, and provides the user with potential diagnoses. The provided diagnoses are ranked from COMMON to RARE, and images of each potential diagnosis are provided to the user, along with clinical features of each condition.{{cite web|url=https://www.dermnetnz.org/dermdiag/|title=DermNet NZ DermDiag|access-date=December 30, 2020}}
Awards
DermNet won the 2017 New Zealand Ministry of Health Clinician's Challenge Award for the development of a skin disease image recognition tool.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK1McTgFC-4 |title=Improving Diagnosis of Skin Conditions: DermNet's Machine Learning Award |date=16 November 2017 |access-date=30 November 2017}}{{cite web |url= http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/ehealth/other-ehealth-initiatives/clinicians-challenge-2017 |title=Clinician's Challenge 2017 |publisher=Ministry of Health |access-date=November 30, 2017}}
In 2017, Oakley won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the New Zealand Charity Technology Awards for her tenure as creator and editor-in-chief of the website.{{cite web |url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1703/S00070/dr-amanda-oakley-takes-out-techsoups-lifetime-service-award.htm |title="Dr Amanda Oakley takes out TechSoup’s Lifetime Service Award" - Scoop.co.nz |access-date=January 1, 2018}}
In 2018, Oakley was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to dermatology as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours List.{{cite web |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/qb2018-cnzm#oakleyam |title="Queen's Birthday Honours 2018 - Citations for Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit" - New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=June 7, 2018}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.dermnetnz.org/ Official Website]