"[Equity Matters] is a series of videos and resources designed to provide historical context for understanding bias in medical education admissions, identify processes and practices to move toward holistic review, share approaches to developing rubrics for learner evaluation, and approaches to understanding outcomes and sustaining meaningful change."
ACGME has several methods for individuals viewing the material as and leveraging the content within institutions and teams to develop more holistic recruitment practices.
A resource from the University of Maryland: "We created a Cultural Complications Curriculum to address this deficit. Designed to be presented during standard hospital Morbidity & Mortality conferences, the curriculum covers 12 core themes in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Each data-driven module introduces the audience to key terminology, provides scientific evidence for the concept, and offers sample cases to spur discussion. By leveraging a longitudinal approach that is already familiar to health care workers, we hope to better identify instances of cultural breakdown and establish best practices to address it."
Connecting the arts and healthcare, physicians share stories about race, racism and antiracist efforts in the medical community. Hosted by Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab. This is a co-production of TPT-Twin Cities PBS and the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. (Released 4/29/22; Runtime 56:40)
International medical graduates (IMGs) at the University of Minnesota have create a resource site for other IMG healthcare professionals orient themselves in the new US environment and integrate them in their new role at the University of Minnesota (UofM). View the site for helpful information and who to contact if you would like to attend social events with other IMGs.
Navigating MN Culture for Transplants is an informative 45-minute presentation provided by the Office of Faculty Affairs for new faculty. The material is presented by Assistant Professor Aaron Corfield, DPM. This material is helpful for those moving to Minnesota as well as lifelong Minnesotans to understand what transplants often experience.
Jonas Attilus, MD, (PGY2 Psychiatry Residency) and other community organizers had a conversation on antiBlackness during the refugee crisis. He shared his personal story crossing the Haitian-Dominican border illegally to join his family in Mexico after the 2010 earthquake, his expereicne as an undocumented person in DR, his experience in Greece assisting some refugees in 2019, and discussed meeting Haitian and Latinx refugees in December 2021. (Recorded 3/23/22; Runtime 1:41:19)
Click here to find the contact person to ask about diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the different departments within the University of Minnesota Medical School.
U of M Office for Supplier Diversity contact list: https://osd.umn.edu/connect/contact-our-staffÂ
UMN Diversity & Sustainability in Business Office list of Minority- and Women-owned businesses: https://libguides.umn.edu/CSR/directories
Minneapolis BIPOC Business Map: https://www.bipocbusinesses.org/