The following course is based on a presentation at the Serono Symposia International Foundation event Psoriasis: From Scientific Potential to Clinical Reality which took place in Barcelona, Spain February 17-18, 2006.

This course will introduce you to the patient’s perspective for the treatment and management of psoriasis. 

Patients want to be treated with a safe and effective therapy that provides a long term control of their psoriasis which will improve their quality of life.

A patient focused treatment model can be an answer.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The learning objectives of this course are:

• To review the impact of psoriasis on patients’ physical and mental health
• Discuss current treatments and patient issues related to those therapies.
• Identify the need to understand the psoriasis co-morbidity with respect to how these influence psoriasis treatment. 
• Introduce the patient centered clinical method and compare it to the traditional systemic therapy
• Introduce the new paradigm of physician choice and the benefits of the continuous treatment as opposed to the rotational one.