Education Pathway
Diversity and Inclusion
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Advocacy Pathway
Yael Smiley, MD
General Pediatrician & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
General Pediatrics
Children's National Hospital
Children's National Medical Center
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Enrique Escalante, MD, MSHS
Pediatric Hospitalist
Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Children's National Hospital
Children's National Health System
Washington, DC, United States
Dewesh Agrawal, MD
Vice-Chair for Medical Education & ACGME DIO
Vice-Chair for Education, Department of Pediatrics
Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC
Children's National Hospital
Washington, DC, United States
Aisha Barber, MD MEd
Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Graduate Medical Education
Children's National Health System
Children's National Health System
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Jeanne Delgado, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Health Services Research
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
Jessica Hippolyte, MD, MPH
Chief Resident
Children's National Hospital
Children's National Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Olanrewaju Falusi, MD
Medical Director of Advocacy Education, Child Health Advocacy Institute
Assistant Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Assistant Professor
Child Health Advocacy Institute
Children's National Hospital
Children's National Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Nailah Gallego Clemmons, MD
Pediatric Resident
Children’s National Hospital
Children's National Hospital
Lemaat Michael
Children's National Hospital
Cara Lichtenstein, MD. MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's National Hospital
Children's National Medical Center
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Chidiogo Anyigbo, MD, MPH
Instructor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Children's National Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Melissa Delia, MD
Resident
Children's National Medical Center
Children's National Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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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.