Strategic engagement

Our Mission: To foster a culture within our program that is committed to facilitating impactful collaborations, engaging with various populations, and using mindful practices to strengthen our recruitment process, teaching practices, and patient care.

Med-Peds STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT Committee

Our program has a resident committee dedicated to Strategic Engagement
The goals of the committee are to promote educational curricula highlighting health inequities, systemic and structural racism, social justice, and bias elimination.
We have been incorporating health equity topics into PGY-2 Journal clubs and plan to continue to have guest lecturers speak about the intersectionality of health equity and medical research during noon conference.
We are also planning to create an informal mentorship program for IUSM students from all backgrounds through residency interview preparation and clerkship guidance.
We are focused on developing partnerships with active IUSM organizations including GME Strategic Engagement Committee and the IU Multicultural Physicians Alliance.

Diversity in Indianapolis

Indianapolis is a diverse community. The city demographics are composed of 53.5% White, 29% Black or African American, 10.4% Latiné or Hispanic, 3.7% Asian, and 4.2% two or more races. Since 2010 the Black or African American, Latiné or Hispanic, and Asian populations have continued to expand.

We also feel it is important to acknowledge the many limitations/flaws of the census system as related to race, ethnicity, ancestry and one's personal identity. We acknowledge that each individual applicant, resident, and patient are a unique blend of identities and we are dedicated to supporting all individuals at our program. This is one of the reasons our application review process is holistic.

Refugee Health Opportunities in Indianapolis

Roughly, 5% of the Indianapolis population.
The largest refugee group in Indiana consists of Burmese people, who account for more than 60-80% of all arrivals since 2007 (from 2022).

Specific Med Peds Opportunities

All but one of our Continuity Clinic's are FQHCs allowing for increase opportunities for refugee healthcare
Rotate with the Refugee Health Intake Clinic on your ambulatory rotations
Exodus: Indiana's Refugee non-profit, which we rotate/visit during the peds community rotation

IU GME strategic engagement

IU GME has worked hard to empower programs and trainees with the resources and tools necessary to promote transformational change towards an inclusive and supportive environment for all. Some of these include...

Pipeline and outreach programs
10-step Inclusive Recruitment Checklist
Retention and Mentoring programs
Cultural Humility Training
A compilation of literature, toolkits, and guidebooks that is continuously updated
See the GME Recruitment Toolkit for comprehensive information

Questions?

We know how important it is to have your questions answered throughout your interview process. We have many residents who are willing and able to answer all questions that you may have! We have a great list of residents who have offered their help to answer any questions you may have about life in Indy or our Strategic Engagement efforts. To protect our resident personal information, we ask that you email us at iumpinterview@gmail.com and we can connect you with any of the residents you request, or residents that we think can best answer your questions.

PGY-1 Joseph Beales; PGY-2 Hilary Kleppel, Abhi Rao, Marisa Pietrandrea, Kim Nguyen

PGY-3 Joe Boone, Abby Kerschner, Lee Landess; PGY-4 Alaina Turchi

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