Threads for Med Ed, or T4ME, a medical student club at Penn State’s College of Medicine, is taking a creative, multidimensional approach to addressing issues of sustainability.
T4ME collects donations of professional clothing from College of Medicine faculty and staff to redistribute to medical students in preparation for their clerkships and/or interviews. The club was started about two years ago by Dr. Amy Burns, a urologist now at UPMC Harrisburg, in conjunction with Dr. Emmanuelle Williams, associate dean of student affairs and a gastroenterologist at Penn State College of Medicine.
“Originally, the vision was to alleviate the financial burden on our medical students when buying professional clothing,” said Dr. Amanda Cooper, a trauma and acute care surgeon and an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at Penn State College of Medicine, who, along with Williams, is a faculty adviser for the T4ME club. “Many physicians and professionals in the institution have professional clothing that they don’t wear anymore. Instead of donating it at Goodwill or somewhere similar, why not collect it and let our medical students take it if it suits them?”
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