Dermatology

The Dermatology section sees the full range of skin diseases plus venerological diseases. There are outpatient clinics every weekday except Sunday at the hospital and every month at Jeddah, Madinah and Taif Primary Health Care Centers.

The Dermatology section cares for both outpatients and inpatients. Outpatients are seen at regular clinics of which there are eleven during the working week. Special procedure clinics deal with referrals within the section for those patients who need special treatment such as minor surgery, diathermy, chemocutary, cryosurgery, dermabrasion, and Laser hair removal or intralesional injection therapy. Patients required to be seen urgently are seen, if possible, before the routine clinic starts early in the mornings, but acute venereological cases are seen immediately if requested.

The inpatients that are dealt with by the section are generally of serious nature, where outpatient treatment is impossible, or other departments have made referral and the care of the patient is then shared.

Teaching of junior staff, medical residents, family medicine residents, and general practioners forms a most important part of the section work. The Saudi Council for Health Specialties accredited the Section for Saudi Board training in Dermatology.

Vision​​​

• Our vision is to offer to our patients the highest standards of diagnosis and therapy
• Specifically the availability of all diagnostic procedures relevant to both specialties of dermatology and venereology and the means to treat our patients with the most appropriate agents, both medicinal and surgical.

Mission​

Our mission is to re-establish full investigative procedures and upgrade our therapeutic modalities in the section.

Statistics

• Hospital OPD 6000–7000/ year
• New patients 1000–1100/ year
• Procedures 3000–4000 / year
• Outreach Clinics 600 – 800 year
• Consultations 300 – 400/ year
• Average number of Inpatients 10 – 20 / year