Welcome to the GWAPI Mentorship Program (GMP)

We offer a mentorship program both to residents as well as to medical students. The GWAPI mentorship programs pairs young medical professionals with seasoned mentors of the same specialty. The program provides the foundation for an effective and valuable mentoring relationship. Opportunities for a future medical mentorship for students in premed, as well as the years learning and preparing for a career in medicine, is critical to long term success. We all remember a teacher who helped us prepare for something we knew little about. Through that mentoring relationship, we achieved success and remember how good we felt. The relationship can be short-term or long-term, or even a task specific mentor-mentee relationship. Having a good mentor you know and trust can be the difference between achieving success in medicine or failure in any medical field.

This years goal will be to increase memberships reaching out to medical students, as well as residents. We have so much knowledge and talent in the older generations of our medical community, that we what to spread that through upcoming generations.

Medical Student Mentorship Program

Arpana A. Shah, MD

Arpana A. Shah, MD, FAAD is a Board Certified Dermatologist and owner of Shah Dermatology, LLC, a private practice in Southern Maryland. She obtained her degree at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and completed her dermatology residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She has been serving the patients of Southern Maryland for the last 22 years. She has extensive experience in supporting AAPI and GWAPI. Dr Shah is honored to support the GWAPI mentoring program. A graduate of a BS/MD program, Dr Shah has experience navigating the complicated system of medical education and residency. She too has experienced BS/MD admissions with both of her children. She is passionate about helping other high school, undergraduate, & medical students, as well as residents and fellow to find opportunities for growth and advancement.