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.