AAD Inclusivity Toolkit
The AAD offers educational resources in its online Learning Center to support dermatologists in delivering unbiased, evidence-based, and compassionate care to patients from all backgrounds.
The Skin of Color Curriculum is a comprehensive inpatient and outpatient curriculum focused on the diagnosis and effective treatment of dermatologic conditions that may present differently across varied skin tones. Designed for practicing dermatologists and dermatology residents, the curriculum strengthens clinical knowledge to help improve patient outcomes and safeguard access to high-quality dermatologic care for all.
The Medicine Without Barriers: Overcoming Unintended Bias in Practice course provides practical strategies to recognize and reduce unintended barriers in clinical practice. It emphasizes effective communication, patient trust, and thoughtful care delivery to support excellent and compassionate dermatologic care across diverse patient populations. The guided learning experience focuses on identifying structural and interpersonal hurdles that can affect care and offers tools to improve access, understanding, and patient experience.
In addition, the AAD has curated resources from other organizations to help dermatologists better understand concepts related to inclusivity, patient access, and addressing health disparities in dermatologic care.
Learn practical strategies to reduce unintended barriers and strengthen patient communication.
The Skin of Color Curriculum is a complete, definitive in- and out-patient curriculum for the diagnosis and effective treatment of patients with skin of color.
The links below download PDFs.
Cosmetics
Evaluating the Cosmetic Patient
Cultural competence
Cultural Competence for the 21st Century Dermatologist Practicing in the United States
Access our other resources on inclusion.
