Make-up table

In the last Ideas Lab podcast of 2011, Lucy joins Julia Hyland, medical effects make-up artist and Outreach Officer for the History of Medicine Unit at the University of Birmingham, as she applies prosthetic dermatological conditions to medical students who have different skin colours. Making up the students with conditions such as psoriasis, Kaposi's Sarcoma and ringworm, Julia demonstrates how the same diseases and conditions present very differently on different coloured skin, which can lead to GPs misdiagnosing and under-diagnosing conditions.

 

Lucy then chats to Dr June Jones, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics at the University of Birmingham, who explains more about their project to train GPs to help them diagnose dermatological conditions among patients of diverse ethnicities. We also hear from the medical students involved in the workshop, who give their thoughts on what the temporary skin conditions look like on their skin.

 

It takes a lot of make-up to create realistic skin conditions!

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