Women's Dermatologic Society

  TIPP: Women’s Shelter Initiative to Empowering Women Through Dermatology By Stephanie Choi, MS4, and Hanna Englander, MS2; UMass Chan Medical School   Community engagement offers healthcare providers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact and gain valuable insights into caring for patients from diverse backgrounds and with varied needs. For UMass Chan medical students Stephanie and Hanna, one particularly rewarding opportunity has been the Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS)’s Transformative and Interconnecting Program Project (TIPP), the women’s shelter initiative.  Through the TIPP program, medical students and dermatologists can organize dermatology educational workshops for participants at women’s shelters. Each event requires involvement of a dermatologist with an active WDS membership; and interested dermatologists and medical students can utilize the toolkit detailed on the TIPP website to acquire WDS support materials. This includes the WDS pre-made...

Interested in facilitating a TIPP Women’s Shelter event? The WDS Community Service and Public Education Committee has worked to make this process even easier. On the WDS website under “ Women’s Shelter Initiative ” you can now find a drafted email that can be easily tailored and sent to multiple community sites. This pre-set e-mail provides a brief synopsis of the WDS goals along with what a TIPP event consists of – all you must do is find a community organization’s contact and hit send! Copy and Paste the below text and photos into your email: Hello (shelter contact), My name is (name) and I am a (derm resident, dermatologist, medical student, etc.) at (place) (link to bio if you have one, to show legitimacy). I am contacting you as a representative of the Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS). WDS strives to be the premier organization cultivating personal and professional development of women dermatologists dedicated to excellence in patient care, mentorship, volunteerism, leadershi...