Faculty Coordinator: Ben Davis, MD
Overview: Swedish Family Medicine Residency (SFMR) has a strong commitment to social justice and health equity. The Culture & Diversity Curriculum seeks to engage residents and faculty by encouraging personal and professional development through self-reflection, knowledge acquisition, and dialogue in order to address multiculturalism, implicit bias, and racism.
The curricular topics are updated frequently based on current events and pressing health concerns. See below for an example of topics that have been addressed in the curriculum:
Cultural Competency: Identifying Gaps In Training
Implicit Bias: What To Actually Do About
Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Exchange
Structural Competency: Beyond the Individual Level
Immigration: Structural Biases
Racism as Experienced by Physicians of Color: Institutional Racism, Racism from Colleagues, and Racism from Patients
Other Diversity/Anti-racism Work:
Diversity Committee comprised of residents and faculty
Implicit Bias M&M
Resident-led anti-racism reading group
Involvement with local community health fairs
Current Grants:
Title: Racism in the Healthcare System: An Investigation of Institutional Racism, Racism from Colleagues, and Racism from Patients as Reproted by Physicians of Color
Awarded By: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Sponsored By: The Group on Minority and Multicultural Health
Project Timeline: 2018-2019
Updated on 3/22/18 by BD and KS