Resuscitating Your Training Program to Promote Diversity, Drive Equity, and Dismantle Institutional RacismWorkshop Co-Leader: – Children's National Hospital
Workshop Leader: – Children's National Hospital
Workshop Co-Leader: – Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC
Workshop Co-Leader: – Children's National Health System
Workshop Speaker: – University of California, Los Angeles
Workshop Speaker: – Children's National Hospital
Workshop Speaker: – Children's National Hospital
Workshop Speaker: – Children’s National Hospital
Workshop Speaker:
Workshop Speaker: – Children's National Hospital
Workshop Speaker: – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Workshop Speaker: – Children's National Medical Center
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Institutional racism persists within medicine, academic health centers, and training programs. This creates negative health effects for children and numerous challenges for physicians from backgrounds under-represented in medicine (UIM). Diversifying the workforce is one of the promising strategies that may lead to a reduction in institutional racism and foster equity. The Pediatric Residency Program at Children’s National Hospital has successfully recruited an increasingly diverse resident body as one step to graduate self-actualized future pediatric leaders equipped with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to dismantle structural racism.
This workshop will provide participants with an overview of specific strategies that they can introduce at their home institutions to increase UIM diversity. The workshop will begin with a discussion of racism and diversity in academic medicine. Using audience polling technology, we will guide an interactive and evidence-based discussion demonstrating how diversifying the workforce drives equity. We will then present a variety of strategies that have been implemented at our institution to address institutional racism. Then participants will divide into small breakout groups to explore three strategies in-depth: (1) the “Minority Senior Scholarship Program”, a pipeline program to increase UIM student interest in academic pediatrics and introduce them to our residency program; (2) “Enhanced Recruitment and Interview Practices” encompassing strategies from pre-interview season recruitment through applicant review to increase the chances of matching excellent UIM applicants; and (3) strategies used to build community, support UIM residents, and promote inclusion. In small groups, the workshop participants will discuss necessary investments, implementation strategies, measure of success, and assessment approaches for each strategy. Each participant will rotate through each of the small groups.
A large group discussion will then focus on implementation challenges and opportunities. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will leave with a toolbox of strategies that can be used to diversify their respective educational settings.
Education Pathway
Diversity and Inclusion
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Advocacy Pathway
