Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)
GME Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The Graduate Medical Education (GME) Office at the University of Washington School of Medicine ensures that all residents and fellows receive the highest quality educational experience in a learning environment that nurtures their professional development. Throughout our history, we have fallen short of this mission. Progress can only be achieved by creating diverse and inclusive residency and fellowship programs that train future generations fully prepared to improve the health of the public through an equity lens.
The GME Office is committed to a diversity of ideas and experiences. We embrace all aspects of human difference such as socio-economic status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, spiritual practice, geography, ability, and age. We are intolerant of discrimination in our learning environments.
The GME Office is committed to recruiting, supporting, and retaining physicians and dentists from diverse backgrounds to our training programs. To achieve this, we must amplify underrepresented voices within our community and increase the diversity of our residents, fellows, faculty and staff.
We act and grow with two goals in mind:
- To allow every resident and fellow to reach their highest potential during training such that no one is disadvantaged from achieving their potential because of social position, group identity, or other socially determined circumstances; and
- To provide the highest quality care to the diverse patients in each community served by our trainees across UW GME
Network of Underrepresented Residents and Fellows
The UW Network of Underrepresented Residents and Fellows (NURF) aims to promote cultural diversity in medicine through community involvement, mentorship, professional networking and recruitment of underrepresented minorities in medicine.
- Keeping Our Promise – Supporting Trainees from Groups That Are Underrepresented in Medicine (NEJM)
- Healthcare Equity Related Glossary Terms by Topic (UW Medicine Healthcare Equity Toolkit)
- Racial Equity Tools Glossary (Racial Equity Tools)
- Key Concepts: Racism, Anti-Racism, Privilege, and Oppression (UW GME Program Director Development Series, 2017)
- Diversity Training – Why is it Needed? (UW GME Program Director Development Series, 2017)
- Debunking 5 Myths about Diversity in Medical Education (American Medical Association)
- “Reverse Racism”?: Watch this 3 minute video
- The Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Faculty Development Steering Committee is developing on trainings for all faculty in the following topics (anticipated release in October 2021):
- History of Race and Racism in Medicine and Science
- Social Identifies, Privilege and Intersectionality
- Understanding Implicit Bias and Interrupting Microaggressions
- Gender and Sexual Diversity
- Social Determinants of Health
Challenging Health Inequity
- Why Are Health Studies So White? (The Atlantic)
- Healthcare Equity Toolkit (UW Medicine)
- Study Identifies a Key Reason Black Scientists Are Less Likely to Receive NIH Funding (Science)
- Stolen Breaths (New England Journal of Medicine)
- Reducing Disparities in Health Care (American Medical Association)
- Prioritizing Equity Video Series: The Root Cause (American Medical Association)
- Little-Known Health Workers, Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You (AAMC News)
- Addressing a Gender Identity Crisis in Medicine (JGME)
- LGBTQ Inclusion: Tools for Providers (UW Medicine)
- Care Transformation: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) (UW Medicine)
Teaching EDI
- Anti-racism in Medicine Collection (AAMC MedEdPORTAL)
- Building a Tool Kit for Medical and Dental Students: Addressing Microaggressions and Discrimination on the Wards (AAMC MedEdPortal)
- Critical Teaching Series: Podcasts to Advance Health Equity and Justice in Medical Education (UW CLIME)
- Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery-and are still believed by doctors today (NYTimes Magazine)
- The problem with race-based medicine (15 minute TEDMed, Dorothy Roberts, 2015)
- How we fail black patients in pain (AAMC)
- Teaching Residents Population Health Management(Center for Excellence in Primary Care, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF & AAMC)
- The Impact of “See the City Your Serve” Field Trip: An Educational Tool for Teaching Social Determinants of Health (JGME)
- How to Make It Real: Disparities of Care Experiential Learning Workshop (JGME)
- The Refugee Health Partnership: A Longitudinal Experiential Medical Student Curriculum in Refugee/Asylee Health (Academic Medicine)
- Evaluating Cultural Competence Education and Training (AAMC)
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, 1968. A revolutionary book about education, society, and equity. A must for all educators)
Calling for Action
- A Guide to Responding to Microaggressions (CUNY Forum)
- Did You Really Just Say That? (American Psychological Association)
- Dealing with Racist Patient (New England Journal of Medicine)
- ER Doctors: We’re No Strangers to Violence but We Try to De-escalate Without Anyone Dying (USAToday)
- Inappropriate Behavior by Patients and Their Families-Call It Out (JAMA Internal Medicine)
- Your Guide to Bystander Intervention in Public Space (Asian American Advancing Justice)
Promoting EDI in Your Program, Department, and Medical Community
- Recruitment Resources – Application Review/Interview Tools
- Search Committee Training – UW OHCE
- UW Faculty Code for Appointment and Promotion
- Tips, Guidelines, and Toolkit for Inclusive Hiring (UWHR)
- A Framework for Inclusive GME Recruitment Strategies: Meeting the ACGME Standard for a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce (Academic Medicine)
- Webinar: Best Practices for Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Student Body (AAMC)
- ACGME Equity Matters CME and Video Library (ACGME)
- Increasing GME Diversity and Inclusion (JGME)
- Ten Small Steps for Department Chairs to Foster Inclusion (Inside Higher Education)
- Five ways to Boost Diversity in the Medical Community (AMA)
- Incentivizing Faculty Diversity (Inside Higher Education)
- (More) Bias in Science Hiring (Inside Higher Education)
- Best Practices for Faculty Searches (UW, Toolkit is also available)
- Preventing sexual harassment (UWHR)
- The Life of a Black Academic: Tired and Terrorized (Inside Higher Education)
- 2019 FACTS: Applicants and Matriculations Data (AAMC)
- Change Management – Kotter Model (B. Speck / D. Vreyens)
- Change Management Worksheet – Kotter Model (B. Speck / D. Vreyens)
Identifying Microaggressions and Implicit Bias
- Addressing Harmful Bias and Eliminating Discrimination in Health Professions Learning Environments (Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation)
- Microaggressions: What They Are, And How They Are Associated with Adjustment Outcomes (American Psychological Association)
- Five Keys to Challenging Implicit Bias (Edutopia)
- Microaggression and Bias (UW GME Program Director Development Series, 2017)
- Making All Lives Matter in Medicine from Inside Out (JAMA Internal Medicine)
- Lessons from an Educational Never Event (JAMA Internal Medicine)
- Implicit Bias in the Clinical Setting and Learning Environment (UW Medicine Center for Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion)
- ‘Not Your Language’: How a Classroom Interaction Led a Student to Speak Out on Microaggression (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Harvard Implicit Bias Project
Building In-Depth Knowledge
- The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois, W.E.B, 1903)
- The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation (Webinar Series, American Public Health Association)
- If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? (James Baldwin)
- Differences by Victim Race and Ethnicity in Race- and Ethnicity-Motivated Violent Bias Crimes: A National Study (Journal of Interpersonal Violence)
- Hate Map (Southern Poverty Law Center)
- White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police Forces: Fact-Checking National Security Advisor O’Brien (JustSecurity)
- FBI Warned of White Supremacists in Law Enforcement 10 Years Ago. Has Anything Changed? (PBS)
- Bias Isn’t Just Police Problems, It’s a Preschool Problem (NPR)
Books, Podcasts, and Documentaries (Available through UW Libraries)
- Fatal Invention (Dorothy Roberts, 2012)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Alexander, M, 2010)
- Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the US (Alim, S, 2012)
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (Katznelson, I, 2015)
- 1619 (New York Times, Podcast)
- Race: The Power of an Illusion (DVD. This documentary explains how what we assume to be “scientific” is shaped by our history, institutions, and beliefs. Many professors who teach race and equity courses in college begin their courses with this documentary.)
- Unnatural Causes (DVD. This documentary tackles the root causes of our socioeconomic and racial inequities in health.)
- 13th (DVD)
- A Class Divided (PBS Frontline episode. See how discrimination and prejudice are reinforced among third graders as well as among prison guards and parole officers.)
- NPR Podcast “Code SW!TCH“
Organizations
- Colorlines: Website I Twitter I Instagram I Facebook
- Equal Justice Initiative: Website I Twitter I Instagram I Facebook
- White Coats for Black Lives: Website I Twitter I Instagram I Facebook
- GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation): Website I Twitter I Instagram I Facebook
- Zinn Education Project: Website I Twitter I Instagram I Facebook
- Rethinking Schools: Website I Twitter I Instagram I Facebook
- Teaching for Change: Website I Twitter I Facebook
- Pew Research Center: Website I Twitter I Instagram I Facebook
- Southern Poverty Law Center: Website I Twitter I Instagram I Facebook
Other Resources
UW Initiatives
- UWSOM Race and Equity Initiative
- UW Medicine Healthcare Equity Blueprint
- UW CEDI Faculty Development Resources
- UW Medicine Office of Healthcare Equity Resource List
- UW Department of Bioethics and Humanities Resource List
UW Resouces
UW Health Sciences Common Books
- 2020-2021: How to be an Antiracist (Kendi, Ibrahm)
- 2019-2020: So You Want to Talk About Race (Oluo, Ijeoma)
Resources
Contact Us
GME Office
Phone: 206.543.6806
Email: uwgme@uw.edu
Other Resources
UW Initiatives
- UWSOM Race and Equity Initiative
- UW Medicine Healthcare Equity Blueprint
- UW Race and Equity Initiative
UW Health Sciences Common Books
- 2020-2021: How to be an Antiracist (Kendi, Ibrahm)
- 2019-2020: So You Want to Talk About Race (Oluo, Ijeoma)
Resources
- UW Department of Bioethics and Humanities Resource List
- UW CEDI Faculty Development Resources
- UW Medicine Office of Healthcare Equity Resource List
- UWHR Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Seattle Children’s Center for Diversity and Health Equity
- AAMC Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit Resources
- AMA COVIDE-19 Health Equity Resources
- King County COVID-19 Race and Ethnicity Data Dashboard