App Trains Healthcare Professionals To Detect Early Stage Skin Cancer, University of Edinburgh Study

The new app, called Dermofit, has been designed to help train non-specialist doctors, nurses, and medical students to more accurately identify different skin lesions and growths along with their related diagnoses, using interactive, cognitive training techniques and an extensive image reference library.

Launched earlier this month, Dermofit is already in use in a range of medical training settings around the world, helping healthcare professionals develop a greater knowledge of the variety of visual characteristics that different skin lesions have, and the way that these can be used to determine benign cases from more serious examples of skin cancer.

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