In Brazil, the Medical course comprises six years, including lectures, tutorial lessons, and laboratory/clinical/surgical practices. In the last two years, there is internship in Public Health/Family Medicine, Internal Medicine/ Specialties, Surgery, Gynaecology/Obstetrics and Paediatrics. The present study verified the profile of patients presented in an outpatient clinic for Pediatric Dermatology in Valinhos-SP/Brazil, in order to provide data for teaching and for public actions. One dermatologist supervised the medical students. All medical records for new patients from January to December 2018 were analyzed for age, gender, diagnosis, comorbidities, and duration of disease. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Sao Lepoldo Mandic Institute and Research Centre (#08426619.3.0000.5374). Ninety two new patients were admitted in 2018. The average age of the children was 10.4 years (1 month to 20 years, median 12 years, mode 13 years). Female children comprised 57% of patients and were brought by their mothers (74.2%).
Thirty percent of the children had comorbidities, including 53.6% asthma or allergic rhinitis. Acne was the most frequent diagnosis (28%), followed by atopic dermatitis (13%), hamartoma (9.7%), warts (7.5%), striae distensae (4.3%), pityriasis versicolor (4.3%), molluscum contagiosum (3.2%) and contact dermatitis (3.2%). More than one dermatosis was found in six children. Disease duration varied between 15 days and 11 years (average 2 years). The predomination of teenagers corresponded to the most frequent diagnosis. Despite the mean age of patients was similar to other studies in Brazil, the latter found atopic dermatitis in the
first place. Our finding may reflect changings in dermatological consultation profile in Brazil resulting from possibility of assistance of patients with atopic dermatitis by other specialists, such as immunologists, and a growing reason for consultation for acne, possibly because one of its therapy (isotretinoin) can be supported by the government.

Prevalence of dermatosis in a paediatric population attended by medical students in Brazil