Promoting public skin health through a national continuing medical education project on cosmetic and dermatologic sciences: a 15-year experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The developments in cosmetic sciences and technologies have generated a gap between the cosmetics and their users. Users including regular customers, clinicians, industry personnel, researchers, testing agencies, beauty salon workers, and mass media hardly possess the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood. The gap remained as one major reason for inappropriate cosmetics usage, insufficient efficacy, and even cosmetics adverse reactions (CARs).

Methods

Aiming at enhancing the relevant practitioners' cosmetic and dermatologic sciences, we launched a cosmetic and dermatologic sciences continuing medical education (CME) since 2008. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the CME. We summarized and analyzed the project for the last

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10687160 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature