“I KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE SKIN CANCER”
“Everyone finds it hard to believe that I have spent more than 22 years in medical education and training”. Dr Helen Raynham began her training at a medical school in Cape Town, South Africa – at the same hospital where the world’s first heart transplant was performed. “At my medical school there was a huge emphasis on training at the patient’s bedside. We had to rely on our patient examination rather than laboratory tests”. Finishing first in her class at medical school class, she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, United Kingdom. After her PhD (D.Phil) she completed her an internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Her love of using her clinical skills, led her to choose dermatology as a second residency. “Being a dermatologist, I can use my skills in both internal medicine and dermatology. What I love about dermatology, is that I