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Featured Events

Women in Medicine Month

Each September, the Department of Medicine celebrates Women in Medicine Month, recognizing the contributions of women across our community. Through Grand Rounds, shared stories, and community gatherings, we highlight their work and deepen our understanding of the challenges and opportunities for women in medicine.

Explore the DoM celebration

Get Involved

Department of Medicine events are open to all. We support many different organizations. People of all backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate. Join a council, submit an idea, partner with us, and learn more about the work we're doing.

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Our Mission

To build a community in which all people - including those who have historically been marginalized - can thrive, we will embrace human diversity and pursue practices that advance equity, inclusion, belonging, access, and justice.

Our Vision

To reach our collective potential through these actions:

  • Equitable recruitment, retention, and promotion of faculty, staff, fellows, and residents;
  • inclusive environments;
  • representation of all in education activities fostering an ever deepening understanding of medical history, allyship, and justice;
  • application of a health equity lens for research and scholarly work; and
  • community engagement and clinical care of vulnerable populations.

Our Values

We are committed to:

  • reflecting and celebrating diversity; 
  • educating ourselves; 
  • creating a sense of belonging; 
  • establishing an anti-racist culture; and 
  • moving toward justice.

Key Initiatives

Chair Diversity Investigator Awards

Our Chair Diversity Investigator Award program provides four grants of $50,000 each to young investigators whose research is focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and the elimination of health care disparities. Applications open annually in the summer.
Learn about the awards

Health Equity Education

Health Equity Education efforts are dedicated to training a new generation of leaders in medicine and science who will actively promote health equity and work to reduce our society's devastating health disparities. 

Explore the program

Faculty Lens Advisors

In 2019, we created an innovative program to improve the diversity of our candidate pools, utilizing Faculty LENS Advisors (LENS = Leading to Enhance Excellence in the Navigation of Searches). These are professors in our department, who have been given both funded protected time (20%) and training, along with staff support, to better identify diverse candidates for our professoriate searches.

Learn about Faculty LENS

Resources

We've compiled a list of resources and trainings to help you learn, grow, find support, get involved, and make an impact.

Explore our resource library

Culture & Community Council

The council is an action-oriented group that meets monthly and fosters an environment and culture that is inclusive, welcoming, and supportive of all members of our community. Email our counil to get involved.

Email the council
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