This is a 14 chapter, free online textbook offered by InTech. 'This book presents current topics in genetics in the dermatologic field. Various skin disorders are inherited as mendelian inheritance. Genetic skin disorders are caused by mutations in the genes encoding proteins expressing in skin, skin appendages, melanocytes and immune-associated cells. Identification of genes and elucidation of function of the encoded proteins may provide novel strategies to overcome the disorders. The book offers sufficient current information in each disorder to scientists, physicians and dermatologists, and that novel therapies will be provided to affected individuals via these chapters.'
Type of Material:
Open (Access) Textbook
Recommended Uses:
Reference e book about genetics related to dermatology disorders.
Professional education
Course supplemental reference
Self-paced
Technical Requirements:
Internet access
Web browser
Identify Major Learning Goals:
E book for information about genetics in dermatology. Could be used by college upper division, graduate school learners or professionals.
Target Student Population:
College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Would be useful to have prior knowledge of dermatology and genetics.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Content and information appropriate to title.
170 pages that are organized by chapter.
There are 14 chapters that can be downloaded individually.
An excellent review of many hereditary dermatological diseases.
Excellent figures showing histology and gross morphology of the diseases.
Excellent schematic figures explaining genes and proteins involved and their role in the pathophysiology.
Excellent tabulation of genes, gene products, and clinical features.
Concerns:
No consistent outline between chapters.
No general glossary.
Frequent use of abbreviations without initial definition or a general list of commonly used abbreviations.
Advertisements pop up during use.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Extensive references to the primary literature in each chapter with hyperlinks to PubMed and Google Scholar.
Content can be easily adapted into a course or seminar series on dermatological diseases.
Tables and colored pictures add information for learners.
Concerns:
Many acronyms and abbreviations are used throughout the text.
Material is static as in a regular textbook.
Cumbersome to use on mobile devices.
No consistent approach to the organization of individual chapters; each chapter is a free-standing review on a disease or group of diseases.
The advantages of online learning modules have not been utilized to a large extend: hyperlinks to figures, tables, and references only within each chapter; lack of cross-referencing between chapters; lack of a glossary and list of abbreviations; lack of hyperlinks to technical or medical terms and their definitions.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The starting page provides a clear list of the content of each chapter.
Each chapter is individually accessible and can also be downloaded as a PDF file.
Hyperlinks within each chapter to figures, tables, and references promote ease of use.
Useability of the e book is high.
Concerns:
Scrolling the text within a web browser on mobile devices (iPad) is cumbersome and requires activating hyperlinks to figures or tables, or the sidebar links to sub chapters.
Lack of a glossary and a list of abbreviations: in an online textbook, these should be accessible from each chapter via hyperlinks.
Author listed for chapters with a link to "address all correspondence to" but no information given how to contact author. For example: Chapter 13 Multiple Cutaneousand Uterine Leiomyomatosis by
Teruhiko Makino has no author contact information.
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