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- A Virtual National Diversity Mentoring Initiative to Promote Inclusion in Emergency Medicine Trainees underrepresented in medicine (URiM) face additional challenges seeking community in predominantly white academic spaces, as they juggle the effects of institutional, interpersonal, and internalized racism while undergoing medical training.
- Expanding Medical Education Opportunities for Displaced Refugee Students Every day, people around the world make the difficult decision to leave their homes in search of safety and security.
- The Effect of Rural Underserved Opportunities Program Participation on Medical Graduates’ Decision to Work in Rural Areas There is a persistent rural physician shortage in the United States. Policies to scale up the health workforce in response to this shortage must include measures to draw and maintain existing and newly trained health care workers to rural regions.
- Creating the High School Pipeline for Future Deaf Scientists in Academic Medicine Representation of groups historically underrepresented in academic medicine is an ongoing struggle, including for Deaf people who are American Sign Language users
- Increasing Diversity in the Physician Workforce: Pathway Programs and Predictive Analytics Lack of diversity in the physician workforce has well-documented negative impacts on health outcomes. Evidence supports the use of pathway or pipeline programs to recruit underrepresented in medicine students.
- Diversifying the Medical Pathway in a Post–Affirmative Action World As 3 Black men at different stages of our medical careers, we symbolically and numerically represent the 3% of enrolled medical students and practicing physicians in the US who identify as Black men, unchanged from 1920. Given our experiences as often one of the few present within our health care environments, we are well attuned to the deficit of underrepresented individuals in medicine.
- Holistic Admissions at UC Davis—Journey Toward Equity Now that the US Supreme Court has struck down race-conscious admissions in higher education, institutions are looking to California where the practice has been banned in public schools for nearly 3 decades.
- Strategies for recruiting underrepresented in medicine and sexual and gender minority students to emergency medicine Despite having well-described benefits, diversifying the physician workforce has been an ongoing challenge. Within emergency medicine (EM), multiple professional organizations have identified expanding diversity and inclusion as top priorities.
- Initial treatment of uninsured patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction by facility percutaneous coronary intervention capabilities Timely reperfusion is necessary to reduce morbidity and mortality in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Initial care by facilities with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) capabilities reduces time to reperfusion.
- Developing an Inclusive Scholarship Curriculum for Medical Students As part of a curriculum renewal, in 2020, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sought to create an integrated curriculum that allows students to explore 4 academic career pathways (advocacy/global health, education, innovation, and research) and engage in scholarship activities—the Inquiry Curriculum. The curriculum needed to focus on foundational scholarship skills that would be applicable to all pathways.
- Strategies to Create a More Gender Identity Inclusive Learning Environment in Preclinical and Clinical Medical Education. Recognition of the spectrum of gender identities has been a recent phenomenon in the medical profession. Over the past 20 years, medical literature related to gender identity diversity has increased several-fold, yet it more commonly addresses clinical care rather than aspects related to medical education.
- How Med Ed Can Address Mental Health Stressors of Students of Color Through the MHA initiative, medical students can elect to be trained by licensed mental health professionals at the school’s counseling center to employ skills that help them support their peers. Medical students must attend 3 skills sessions to become a trained “Mental Health Advocate.”
- STAT: These doctors are trying to get more people of color to join their ranks To address this workforce issue, a group of young doctors, dentists, and other health care professionals started a traveling program called Tour for Diversity that goes all over the U.S. to meet with young people of color who are interested in health career paths.
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- National Medical Association (NMA) is the collective voice of African American physicians and the leading force for parity and justice in medicine and the elimination of disparities in health.
- Tour for Diversity in Medicine (T4D) provides and participates in a variety of opportunities in order to connect with students on multiple platforms.
