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Site Requirements

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Forgotten Login Details

If you forget your username or password, you can use the "Forgotten Login Details" link in the login box on the homepage, which will take you to a page where you can enter the e-mail address you used to register for DermQuest. We will e-mail you a reminder of your username, and a new password, which you will be able to change to something more memorable on the "Profile" page as soon as you login to the site.

Managing your Profile

You can update your personal information on the "Profile" page once you are logged in to DermQuest.

Image Library

Introduction

The DermQuest Image Library is a collection of images aimed at meeting the teaching and diagnostic needs and interests of dermatologists and residents in dermatology. The library has been shaped by contributions from dermatologists around the globe. Joseph Bikowski, MD, provided the majority of the images in DermQuest.

Dr. Bikowski began taking slides of skin diseases in 1975 as a first-year dermatology resident at Ohio State University with the intention of using them to teach medical students. Since then he has taken over 75,000 clinical images of skin diseases, resulting in one of the largest private collections of dermatologic images in the world. A major portion of his library of clinical slides is available on DermQuest.

Patient Cases

All images are contained within patient cases. A patient case is a group of images categorized by patient. The same patient case can appear in many searches.

Browsing the Image Library

You can browse images in the Library by the following criteria:

• Anatomical Location
• Symptom
• Pathophysiology
• Lesion
• Diagnosis

You can then refine the images by any of the other criteria to find ones that are more appropriate to your needs.

Searching the Image Library

As an alternative to browsing the Image Library, you can use the search function to find images matching specific keywords.

Advanced Search

The Advanced Search allows you to refine your search results by Anatomical Location, Age Group, Dark Skin, Pregnancy and Immunosupression.

Viewing Images

Whether browsing or searching the Image Library, when relevant images are found you will see a list of small, or thumbnail, images, each one being the first image in a patient case. You can scroll through the thumbnails for each case by using the orange left and right arrows, or you can open the large image page by clicking on a thumbnail. The large image page will show the image and its related information, as well as thumbnails of the other images in that case.

Copyright of Images

The copyright of DermQuest images belongs to Galderma. Please see the DermQuest Legal Notice for more details on the terms of use of DermQuest images.

Printing Images

All images contained in the patient dossiers in the Image Library can be printed by clicking the "Print image and patient details" link beneath the image.

Downloading an image and using it in a PowerPoint presentation

To download an image:

1. Select an appropriate image. Note: Be sure it is at its maximum size and not simply a thumbnail.
2. Right-click on the image and select Save Picture As. Follow the instructions on screen.

To insert an image into PowerPoint:

1. In PowerPoint, select Insert on your top tool bar. Select Picture then From File. You will need to browse in order to find the image in the folder in which you saved it.
2. Click the image filename and then select Insert. The image will then appear on your PowerPoint page. If the image is loaded onto the page in a placement you do not like, you can simply click the image once and drag it to the desired area of the page.

If you would like to order a DermQuest image in high resolution, please contact us.