Women's Dermatologic Society

  From Dr. Morayo Adisa Staggered employee schedules that consider individual requests and allow for reasonable accommodations. Incentivized subsidized gym/wellness center memberships to promote healthy living and well-being. Mindfulness and respect for boundaries with after-hours texting/communication to maintain a clear distinction between work and personal time.   From Dr. Shawna Flanagan I am a small practice owner with multiple working moms as employees. We are a tight knit group, and everyone does their part to help each other out when things happen with the children. We have employees who stay later so the working moms can pick up their children from school or daycare. When a school play or concert occurs during the day at short notice, everyone chips in and picks up the slack if an employee must slip out of the office for a few hours. Over the years we have had children in the office for short stints when childcare fall through for someone. I think provid...

  Tips for Communicating with Your Dermatopathologist By Randie Kim, MD This month, we will be discussing the requisition form as the primary form of communication between clinicians and dermatopathologists. The requisition form accompanies a biopsy specimen and ideally contains a specific clinical question for histopathologic interpretation, which is then sent back to the clinician to help guide management. Believe it or not, on average, 20 different handoffs can occur throughout the skin biopsy process (1). What information is typically included on a requisition form? In a survey of 145 surveyed dermatologists (2), three elements were rated as “important” for the requisition form and included biopsy site location, size, and the clinical impression. In contrast, dermatopathologists identified 10 clinical elements that they felt were critical for the requisition form. These included age of the patient, any prior diagnoses, location, duration, morphology, clinical impression, ...