Joining the BSCA means accessing a network of hundreds of medical professionals across the UK sharing an interest in contact dermatitis. We have regular educational meetings and biennial update courses. We publish BSCA recommended baseline and specialist allergen series.
You can also support our work trialling of ‘new’ allergens as part of our audit group as well as keeping our site up to date with patient information leaflets.
We have a vibrant clinical forum: we would encourage you to log-on to link with other members, post questions and discuss cases with colleagues: ideal for those tricky cases or hard to explain results.
Membership of the BSCA is open to appropriately qualified medical and nursing professionals working in the field of cutaneous allergy. Applicants will need 2 proposers as defined in our constitution.
Ordinary membership with voting rights will be available to practising dermatologists, (including research) in UK and Ireland on the Specialist register for Dermatology of the GMC or the Irish Medical Council, UK and Ireland dermatology trainees on training schemes (with NTN) and SAS dermatology doctors fully committed to secondary care dermatology for 4 years (or more).
Associate membership without voting rights will be available to doctors on the GMC or the Irish Medical Council, overseas consultant or trainee dermatologists in practice outside the United Kingdom and Ireland, nurses who are members of the British Dermatological Nursing Group (BDNG) or Irish Dermatology Nurses Association (IDNA), and scientists and relevant other non-medics who have a significant practice involving dermatological patients or cutaneous allergy.
Prospective applicants for membership of the society must be proposed by 2 individuals: (1) a member of the British Society of Cutaneous Allergy who is on the Dermatology specialist register, and (2) a BAD Ordinary Member. The application must be ratified by the President and the Membership secretary before being approved by the committee, who will take into account the training and competency of the individual.
The annual membership fee of £35 is collected by the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) on behalf of the BSCA.
Quote from a positive member “As a nurse BSCA membership has allowed me to meet other medical professionals and specialists. Their training courses have provided me with the latest contact dermatitis knowledge to help patients manage their skin complaints. I’ve learnt about patch testing and other techniques which I feel more confident to discuss with patients in my care and print off patient sheets from the website.”
Please apply via the new BAD web portal:
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