Educational photographs need to better represent the entire patient population
04/15/21 • 16 min
Recent studies have highlighted poor representation of darker skin types in dermatology textbooks and online resources. Vincent A. DeLeo, MD, talks to Jules B. Lipoff, MD (@juleslipoff), about the general paucity of images of skin of color in learning resources as well as an overrepresentation of darker skin types in material about sexually transmitted infections. “We should be teaching our students and our residents. It shouldn’t be just a skin of color lecture. Skin of color should be through every lecture. We should be showing how everything presents in every skin type,” Dr. Lipoff notes. They also discuss the flaws in the Fitzpatrick skin type system.
Downloadable PDF: https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/CT107003157.PDF
* *
Host: Vincent A. DeLeo, MD (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Guest: Jules B. Lipoff, MD (department of dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
Disclosures: Dr. DeLeo is a consultant for Estée Lauder. Dr. Lipoff reports no conflict of interest.
Show notes by: Allegra Sparta, Melissa Sears
* *
You can find more of our podcasts at http://www.mdedge.com/podcasts
Email the show: [email protected]
Recent studies have highlighted poor representation of darker skin types in dermatology textbooks and online resources. Vincent A. DeLeo, MD, talks to Jules B. Lipoff, MD (@juleslipoff), about the general paucity of images of skin of color in learning resources as well as an overrepresentation of darker skin types in material about sexually transmitted infections. “We should be teaching our students and our residents. It shouldn’t be just a skin of color lecture. Skin of color should be through every lecture. We should be showing how everything presents in every skin type,” Dr. Lipoff notes. They also discuss the flaws in the Fitzpatrick skin type system.
Downloadable PDF: https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/CT107003157.PDF
* *
Host: Vincent A. DeLeo, MD (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Guest: Jules B. Lipoff, MD (department of dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
Disclosures: Dr. DeLeo is a consultant for Estée Lauder. Dr. Lipoff reports no conflict of interest.
Show notes by: Allegra Sparta, Melissa Sears
* *
You can find more of our podcasts at http://www.mdedge.com/podcasts
Email the show: [email protected]
Previous Episode
Coding and reimbursement changes for skin biopsies
In 2019, the two CPT codes for skin biopsies were replaced with six new codes that specify biopsy technique and associated procedural complexity. Vincent A. DeLeo, MD, talks to medical student Sheena Desai and Rebecca I. Hartman, MD, MPH, about this CPT change and its effect on the frequency of shave versus punch biopsies in both private and academic practices. “The average dermatologist needs to be cognizant of the fact that changing reimbursements may hypothetically influence [the] provider’s decision on what biopsy type to perform,” Ms. Desai notes. They also explain how this data can be extrapolated at a national scale.
Downloadable PDF: https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/CT107003151.PDF
* *
Host: Vincent A. DeLeo, MD (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Guests: Sheena Desai, BS (department of dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, both in Boston); Rebecca I. Hartman, MD, MPH (department of dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the department of dermatology, Jamaica Plain (Mass.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center)
Disclosures: Dr. DeLeo is a consultant for Estée Lauder. Ms. Schwartzberg and Dr. Hartman report no conflict of interest.
Show notes by: Allegra Sparta, Melissa Sears
* *
You can find more of our podcasts at http://www.mdedge.com/podcasts
Email the show: [email protected]
Next Episode
Highlights from the 2021 American Contact Dermatitis Society Meeting
This week, Amber Atwater, MD, the immediate past president of the American Contact Dermatitis Society, reviews some highlights from the meeting, which was held in March.
Dr. Atwater, associate professor of dermatology at Duke University, Durham, N.C., discusses the 2021 “Contact Allergen of the Year,” a chemical that has been linked to reactions associated with shin pads and is an emerging allergen that was the topic of a recent report in Dermatitis.
Joining Dr. Atwater, Raina Bembry, MD, a dermatitis fellow at Duke University, provides the results of a study of shoe allergens she presented at the meeting. which found that about 20% of shoe allergens are not detected with the current screening series. Dr. Atwater and Dr. Bembry are first and second authors of this paper, respectively; other authors are members of the North American Contact Dermatitis Group.
Dr. Atwater also reviews the results of a study on the potential role of expanded series patch testing in residual facial dermatitis in patients treated with dupilumab (which received the Gold Alexander A. Fisher Resident Award at the meeting), a study on patterns of contact allergy in Black and White patients in Philadelphia over 10 years (which received the Silver Fisher Resident Award), a study of contact dermatitis information on different social media sites, and results of NACDG patch test results from 2017 to 2018.
Dr. Atwater disclosed receiving the Pfizer Independent Grant for Learning & Change and consulting for Henke. Dr. Bembry had no disclosures.
References:
* *
You can find more of our podcasts at http://www.mdedge.com/podcasts
Email the show: [email protected]
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/dermatology-weekly-80310/educational-photographs-need-to-better-represent-the-entire-patient-po-12872063"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to educational photographs need to better represent the entire patient population on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy