Table 3.

Characteristics of Skin Cancer Education Interventions for Primary Care Physicians

		Curriculum*						Delivery format*
No.	Training resource	Epidemiology	Diagnosis	Dermoscopy	Counseling	Management	Algorithm (list)	Live	Literature	Multi-media	Feedback	Interactive	Web-based	Length (approx.)	Funding source
1	Newcastle Melanoma Unit GP Training Course65,66	X	X			X		X	X					>6 h†	Lion’s International66
2	Algorithm and instant camera intervention67,68		X		X	X	Photo-assisted		X					1 h67†, >6 h68†	University of Queensland’s Mayne Bequest Fund and Queensland Cancer Fund67; Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care68
3	Not specified69	X	X		X			X				X		2 h	Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center of Northwestern University
4	Skin triage intervention70,71	X	X		X	X		X70	X	X	X	X	X71	>3 h†	National Cancer Institute
5	The Early Recognition and Management of Melanoma37, Melanoma Education for Primary Care38,39	X	X		X38,39	X	ABCD, Glasgow, seven-point checklist; ABCDE38,39		X		X	X	X	1 h	National Cancer Institute
6	Part of skin watch33,34	X34	X	X34		X	ABCDE34, photo-assisted	X33	X		X	X		3 weeks33, 6 months34‡	Queensland Cancer Fund and Queensland Health34
7	Recognition of skin cancer (Harland 1995)72		X					X	X					Not specified	Not specified
8	Basic skin cancer triage course35,36	X	X		X	X	Act, reassure, track	X	X			X		2 h	Agency for Health Care Research Quality and National Institutes of Health35
9	Health Education Program East Flanders73	X	X			X		X	X					2 h	Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (Belgium)
10	Not specified74	X	X		X					X				12 min	Not specified
11	Not specified75	X	X		X	X		X						4 h	Not specified
12	Not specified76		X	X			ABCD, three-point checklist	X						4 h	La Roche-Posay, 3Gen, Erwin Schrodinger Fellowship Funding program, FWF Austrian Science Fund, Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias, National Cancer Institute
13	Reseau Melanome Ouest77	X	X		X	X	ABCDE			X		X		2 h	INCa, URCAM, La Roche-Posay

Key

^*Superscript denotes publications in which interventions were studied; within curriculum and format superscripts highlight components of different iterations of an intervention by study

^†Represents minimum time to complete course; open-ended component not defined

^‡Educational intervention given as audit-based feedback during the listed time periods