Diversity champions: Presentations and resources

Presentations 

Download presentations for students, staff, and the community by Kanya Ferguson, MD, FAAD, Assistant Professor, Dermatology Department, University of Iowa. 

• Multicultural talk on mentorship (PDF download)

American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)

• Effective Practices for the Recruitment, Retention, and Education of Native American Medical Students: Association of American Indian Physicians Webinar

• Engaging Diverse Medical Students and Residents to Pursue Academic Medicine 

Next Generation of Academic Physicians (BNGAP)

• BNGAP Webinar featuring Drs. Brewster, Butts, and Ortega

• BNGAP Webinar featuring Drs. Romero-Legott, Anderson, and Moreno

• BNGAP Webinar featuring Drs. Maresca, Spencer, Jones, and Navarro

• BNGAP Webinar featuring Drs. Nakae, Hernandez, and Boyd 

LGBTQ resources

• Do ask. Do treat. Experts discuss cultural and medical competencies of caring for lesbian, gay, and bisexual patients.

• Caring for transgender patients. Experts discuss cultural and medical competencies of providing care for transgender patients.

 Other

• “Gotcha Covered” program (document download)

Additional references:

1. Pandya AG, Alexis AF, Berger TG, Wintroub BU, Increasing racial and ethnic diversity in dermatology: A call to action, J Am Acad Dermatol 2016; 74: 584-587

2. Advancing Holistic Review Initiative, Association of American Medical Colleges, https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/holisticreview/

3. Making Caring Common Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education, http://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/

4. Cooper LA, Roter DL, Johnson RL, Ford DE, Steinwachs DM, Powe NR. Patient centered communication, ratings of care, and concordance of patient and physician race. Ann Int Med. 2003; 139:907-915

5. Cooper LA, Powe NR. Disparities in patient experiences, health care processes, and outcomes: the role of patient-provider racial, ethnic, and language concordance. Commonwealth Fund; 2004. Accessed December 12, 2015.

6. Komaromy M, Grumbach K, Drake M, et al. The role of black and Hispanic physicians in providing health care for underserved populations. N Engl J Med. 1996; 334:1305-1310

7. Marrast LM, Zallman L, Woolhandler S, Bor DH, McCormick D. Minority physicians’ role in the care of underserved patients: diversifying the physician workforce may be key in addressing health disparities. JAMA Intern Med. 2014; 174: 289-291

8. Okike K, Utuk ME, White AA. Racial and ethnic diversity in orthopedic surgery residency programs. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2011; 93:e1072011

9. Bernstein J, Dicaprio MR, Mehta S. The relationship between medical school instruction in musculoskeletal medicine and application rates to orthopedic surgery residency programs. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2004; 86:2335-2338

10. Thomas CL. African Americans and women in orthopedic residency: the Johns Hopkins experience. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1999; 362:65-71

11. Saha S. Taking diversity seriously: the merits of increasing minority representation in medicine. JAMA Intern Med. 2014; 174:291-292

12. Thomas B, Manusov EG, Wang A, Livingston H. Contributors of black men’s success in admission to and graduation from medical school. Acad Med. 2011; 86:892-900

13. Imadojemu S, James WD. Increasing African American representation in dermatology. JAMA Dermatol 2016; 15-16

14. Lester J, Wintroub B, Linos E, Disparities in Academic Dermatology, JAMA Dermatol 2016; 152:878-879