By equipping non-dermatologists and undergraduate medical students with the fundamentals presented in this book, the complications, chronicity, and worsening of dermatological conditions can be stemmed or avoided.
Understanding Diseases in Skin of Color closes a critical gap, offering essential dermatologic insights in an accessible, high-yield format, and delivering the must-know essentials for both hospital-based and clinic-based dermatology practice. Covering conditions of the skin, hair, nails, mucous membranes, and selected dermatological conditions with systemic involvement, this book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview. The skin, one of the most visible parts of the human body, is subject to care, inadvertent abuse, and a plethora of diseases, making early diagnosis and treatment imperative. Starting with a chapter containing multiple illustrations on the basics of skin and its care, the contents cover commented case studies on selected conditions, and a part on how to deal with emergency and chronicity in dermatology. Medications, drug action, the most common investigations, and single best answer (SBA) MCQs accompanied with Answers and Notes are also included. This book also addresses the self-doubt that medical students and practicing non-dermatology doctors often face with confusing dermatological conditions. Through
Understanding Diseases in Skin of Color, readers will gain confidence to handle daily outpatient practice competently while referring to more comprehensive textbooks for further knowledge. Designed to be a friendly, easy-to-carry hands-on book, it will be a valued resource for general practitioners, dermatology and family medicine residents, primary care physicians, and nursing personnel, by contributing to the management of dermatological conditions in dark skin effectively.
透過為非皮膚科醫師和醫學本科生提供本書中所呈現的基本知識，可以減少或避免皮膚病的併發症、慢性化及惡化。《理解有色皮膚的疾病》填補了一個關鍵的空白，以易於理解且高效的格式提供必要的皮膚科見解，並傳遞醫院和診所皮膚科實踐中必須了解的要點。本書涵蓋皮膚、頭髮、指甲、黏膜及選定的系統性相關皮膚病的情況，提供了一個簡明而全面的概述。
皮膚是人體最顯眼的部分之一，需受到照顧，並且容易受到無意的傷害和各種疾病的影響，因此早期診斷和治療至關重要。本書以包含多幅插圖的章節開始，介紹皮膚及其護理的基本知識，內容涵蓋針對選定病症的案例研究，以及如何處理皮膚科的緊急情況和慢性問題的部分。書中還包括藥物、藥物作用、最常見的檢查，以及單一最佳答案（SBA）的多選題，並附有答案和註解。
本書還針對醫學生和執業的非皮膚科醫師在面對令人困惑的皮膚病時常常感到的自我懷疑進行探討。透過《理解有色皮膚的疾病》，讀者將獲得信心，能夠勝任日常門診實踐，同時參考更全面的教科書以獲取進一步的知識。
本書旨在成為一本友好、易於攜帶的實用書籍，將成為全科醫師、皮膚科及家庭醫學住院醫師、初級保健醫生和護理人員的寶貴資源，幫助有效管理深色皮膚的皮膚病。
Dr Inyang Ukot is an alumnus of College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Nigeria (1981). He holds Fellowships in Family Medicine from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (1991) and the West African College of Physicians (1995). He also holds a Diploma in Occupational Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians of London (2005) #00005745. He was the coordinator of training in his faculty in the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria between 1995 and 1999. He is an examiner in Family Medicine with both the West African College of Physicians (WACP) and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN). In 1991 he became the pioneer family physician head of department (HOD) of the Outpatients Department in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, at age 34. As the Trainer on full-time contract, Dr. Ukot led the young consultants in the Department of Family Medicine, enabling the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital to obtain its first accreditation for residency in Family Medicine - numerous consultants and lecturers are products of that service with the first product now a professor in family medicine. In his working experience, he also rendered medical services in the petroleum industry for ExxonMobil and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Dr Inyang Ukot was one of the two specialist doctors who led the medical services department for United Bank for Africa (UBA) in the mid-90s 1990s.
He is the author of the first textbook of family medicine emanating from the West African sub-region and is still actively practicing and writing books in his specialty, while now leading RST Clinics Ltd., Uyo, Nigeria as CEO and medical director.
英揚·烏科特博士是尼日利亞拉哥斯大學醫學院的校友（1981年）。他擁有尼日利亞國家研究生醫學院的家庭醫學專科醫師資格（1991年）以及西非醫師學院的專科醫師資格（1995年）。他還擁有倫敦皇家內科醫師學院的職業醫學文憑（2005年）#00005745。他曾於1995年至1999年間擔任尼日利亞國家研究生醫學院的培訓協調員。他是西非醫師學院（WACP）和尼日利亞國家研究生醫學院（NPMCN）家庭醫學的考官。
1991年，他在34歲時成為尼日利亞波特哈考特教學醫院門診部的首位家庭醫學系主任。作為全職合約的培訓師，烏科特博士帶領家庭醫學部的年輕顧問，使烏約教學醫院獲得家庭醫學住院醫師的首次認證，許多顧問和講師都是該服務的產物，其中第一位產品現在已成為家庭醫學的教授。在他的工作經驗中，他還為埃克森美孚和尼日利亞國家石油公司（NNPC）提供醫療服務。英揚·烏科特博士是1990年代中期領導非洲聯合銀行（UBA）醫療服務部的兩位專科醫生之一。
他是來自西非次區的第一本家庭醫學教科書的作者，並且仍然積極從事專業實踐和撰寫書籍，目前擔任尼日利亞烏約的RST Clinics Ltd.的首席執行官和醫療主任。
